Best of the Beach 2010: Sports
Shaper Dennis Jarvis pushes the envelope when it comes to design.Best Shop Shaper: Dennis Jarvis, Spyder Surfboards Best underground shaper: Dennis McGivern Surfers who wonder why a consensus has never been reached on what makes the perfect surfboard, should talk to our readers’ picks for best shop and best underground shaper. This year’s Best Shop Shaper Dennis Jarvis and Best Underground Shaper Dennis McGivern both started in the surfboard business in the late 1970s sweeping foam dust out of shaping bays – Dennis under the tutelage of Eddie Talbot, McGivern under Wayne Miyata. Several decades and many thousands of boards later the two have arrived at very different opinions on what makes a good board. “Deep dish concaves are making a comeback,” Jarvis said last week as he shaped a board featuring a step bottom, deep concaves in the tail and a lot of tail rocker. The board is for South Bay surf standout Dane Zaun. “I’ve always found the best boards have flat bottoms and smooth easy rocker. I like the old tried and true,” McGivern said when we spoke to him last week. Both are eloquent in defense of their beliefs. The bottom experimentation, Jarvis said, is driven by the desire for…
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