Meet Pyzel: The World’s Best Shaper | John John Florence’s secret weapon

I'm still smiling😀

A photo posted by Surf, Surf, Surf (@pyzelsurfboards) on Nov 2, 2016 at 10:51am PDT

Just a few weeks ago Jon Pyzel was crowned the worlds greatest surfboard shaper in a blind taste test with Dane Reynolds for STAB. Then not long after his prodigy John John Florence won the World Title. So now Pyzel is REALLY the worlds best shaper. In a stroke of luck he’s been shaping for John John since his very first surfboard. Check out that photo below. That’s 19 years now and JJF is only 24.

The wild boys at BeachGrit got Jon Pyzel on the phone fresh from the party. He’s a sample…

BeachGrit: Is there any amount of money, you think, that could convince him to ride for another company?

Pyzel: I don’t know. You’d have to ask him. We’ve been through a lot. He’s had people obviously come to him, and he’s ridden different boards. And there’s been different times when I felt some pressure coming from big companies. And I’ve told him, too, ’cause we’re pretty close friends, don’t feel like you have to ride my boards, because we’re friends or because you owe me anything. What has happened, for me, having a kid of that calibre, is it’s challenged me and kept me working hard. I don’t want him on other boards. I want him on my boards. I don’t think money is a worry for him. He’s doing alright. If he was losing, or doing shitty, he’d be looking for different boards. He’d change it. We’ve had times when the boards weren’t working great so we worked on it.

Click over to BeachGrit to get the full lowdown on Jon Pyzel and also what board you’d probably want from him.