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 When Doc was still Jeff in the late 60s he traded his girlfriend's father a longboard for one of Bill Fury's old Skill 100 planers and a career was launched. Doc made his first board for himself in 1969 in his father's garage in Fountain Valley: "It was super flat but went really fast," Doc said. "It was a diamond-tail, single-fin. A 7' 1" but I was a little guy and that board flew." Doc liked flying and making things that flew and he took over Freedom Surfboards from the founders: His brother and a friend. "That was a full garage thing," Doc said. "And it lasted from 1969 to 1984. I also did some ghost shaping for Shawn Stussy, but all of this was under the table, or should I say, in the garage." There comes a time in every shaper's life when it is time to come out of the garage. That time came in 1984 for Doc so he went legit under the title Surf Prescriptions. And he has been legitimately making a lot of good surfboards ever since. In 1997 Conan Hayes borrowed a 7' 2" from Marc Moreno during the first Gotcha contest at Teahupoo. Conan made it to the final on that board, which handled the world's most treacherous wave in such a way that Hayes wasn't killed to death. "That was a big deal for us," said Amber Lausch. "They saw the trust of the board and all of a sudden all these guys started coming and that is when Surf Prescriptions started exploding." A few years later, Brad Gerlach boated out to the Cortes Bank and rode a Doc during the pioneering assault on the world's most Outer Reef. Gerlach, too, survived. And if you saw that Taylor Steele video Drive Through, Donovan Frankenreiter's weird, finless USO was also prescribed by Doc. He's experienced and innovative and he's got a couple of his personal designs in the Surftech quiv: "For Surftech I designed a 6' 8" and a 6' 10" high volume performance model. These are boards for guys who are bigger or older; surfers who I thought weren't enough attention in the world of 6' 2"s. These are high-performance shortboards for the bigger guy, and I like how the ride under the Surftech construction. They're super light and really fast and loose. They kind of take me back to that diamond-tail 6' 9" I made all those years ago. I'm bigger now but I still like to fly. And I still have Bill Fury's Skil 100." 
 5'8" - New Toy
N : 11 M : 19 T : 14 1/2 Th : 2 1/4 Centre : Future Pivot 412 Side : Future V2 R1
Board Review
This model is a double bump round quad tail. Perfect for less than ideal conditions. Incredibly fast and loose, you'll fit three manoeuvres where you used to do one.
Get one 4" to 6" shorter than your everyday shortboard. More  5'11" - Pro Fish
N : 12 3/8 M : 19 T : 14 3/4 Th : 2 3/16 Centre : Future F5 Side : Future F5
Board Review
A full outline, high-performance shortboard for busting big moves in the pocket of little waves.
Double barrel concave, moderate flat entry rocker and fuller nose. More  6'1" - F-85
N : 12 M : 19 1/4 T : 14 3/8 Th : 2 3/8 Centre : Future F5 Side : Future F5
Board Review
Shortboard, small wave model, good for weak conditions and features a bump squash double barrel concave fuller nose and outline up forward.
More  6'1" - Pro Fish
N : 12 M : 19 1/4 T : 14 1/2 Th : 2 1/4 Centre : Future F5 Side : Future F5
Board Review
A full outline, high-performance shortboard for busting big moves in the pocket of little waves.
Double barrel concave, moderate flat entry rocker and fuller nose. More 6'3" - Pro Fish
N : 11 1/2 M : 19 1/4 T : 14 1/2 Th : 2 5/16 Centre : Future F5 Side : Future F5
Board Review
A full outline, high-performance shortboard for busting big moves in the pocket of little waves.
Double barrel concave, moderate flat entry rocker and fuller nose. More  6'8" - HVP
N : 11 M : 19 T : 14 1/2 Th : 2 1/4 Centre : Future F5 Side : Future F5
Board Review
This is a high volume performance model for the big surfer who still wants to come off the top.
Single to double concave - featuring bigger, thicker and wider design for more volume. More  6'10" - HVP
N : 11 1/4 M : 19 1/2 T : 14 1/2 Th : 2 1/2 Centre : Future F5 Side : Future F5
Board Review
This is a high volume performance model for the big surfer who still wants to come off the top.
Single to double concave - featuring bigger, thicker and wider design for more volume. More |
 
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