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Stab in the Dark: Taj Burrow
Welcome back to "Stab in the Dark," surfing's ultimate annual double-blind board test, starring one world-class Mystery Surfer, and a quiver of unmarked high-performance shortboards built by the world’s most winning, influential, and exciting shapers. This year Stab finally gave in to the most requested surfer in "Stab in the Dark" history, Taj Burrow, who stayed home in Western Australia to put these blades to use.
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The Electric Acid Surfboard Test: Noa Deane
The Electric Acid Surfboard Test is an exploration of alternative and avante garde surfboard design, starring Noa Deane and eleven handcrafted left-field surfboards built by surfing’s most creative craftsman. Filmed on location on the North Shore of Oahu at the famous Volcom House.
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Stab in the Dark: All Stars
Welcome to Stab in the Dark 2017 starring Jordy Smith. We are on a quest to find the best high-performance surfboard in the world. Surfing, as in art, women, literature and style is subjective. We are well aware that this is a flawed concept. However, currently, it’s the best we got. Okay, so here’s how we tango. We commission 12 of the world’s best shapers and ask them to shape us their best high-performance surfboard based on a height and weight. The shapers deliver the boards blank: No logos, no branding, thrusters only - clean and white as God’s shoeshine. The shapers don’t know the surfer, the surfer doesn’t know the shapers. It’s a blind taste test, if you will. This is our third installment of Stab in the Dark. Year one (2015) featured Julian Wilson in West Oz. He gave Darren Handley of DHD the prize of “Best Shaper in the World”. Year two (2016) starred Dane Reynolds in South Africa. There he crowned John Pyzel (the shaper of John John Florence) the best on earth. In 2017, we took World Number One (at the time), Jordy Smith to the Mentawai Islands. 12 shapers go in and one comes out the champion of the world.
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Stab in the Dark: Jordy Smith
Welcome to Stab in the Dark 2017 starring Jordy Smith. We are on a quest to find the best high-performance surfboard in the world. Surfing, as in art, women, literature and style is subjective. We are well aware that this is a flawed concept. However, currently, it’s the best we got. Okay, so here’s how we tango. We commission 12 of the world’s best shapers and ask them to shape us their best high-performance surfboard based on a height and weight. The shapers deliver the boards blank: No logos, no branding, thrusters only - clean and white as God’s shoeshine. The shapers don’t know the surfer, the surfer doesn’t know the shapers. It’s a blind taste test, if you will. This is our third installment of Stab in the Dark. Year one (2015) featured Julian Wilson in West Oz. He gave Darren Handley of DHD the prize of “Best Shaper in the World”. Year two (2016) starred Dane Reynolds in South Africa. There he crowned John Pyzel (the shaper of John John Florence) the best on earth. In 2017, we took World Number One (at the time), Jordy Smith to the Mentawai Islands. 12 shapers go in and one comes out the champion of the world.
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Stab in the Dark
Is it possible to call a surfboard the best in the world? Is it possible to call a shaper the best in the world? Stab in the Dark is performance surfboard design’s ultimate double-blind Test: 11 boards, blacked out for anonymity, built by the world’s most high profile and respected shapers, for one unidentified mystery surfer. Filmed in Japan during one of the biggest typhoon swells of the year, this year’s Stab in The Dark stars 3x World Champion Mick Fanning.
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The Electric Acid Surfboard Test
The Electric Acid Surfboard Test is an exploration of alternative and avante garde surfboard design, starring Noa Deane and eleven handcrafted left-field surfboards built by surfing’s most creative craftsman. Filmed on location on the North Shore of Oahu at the famous Volcom House.
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