TJ had this in an old Bruce Jones squaretail Noserider. I think it is 9'4". This fin was lost for many years. Evan's mom just found it at the bottom of a laundry basket.
Pretty cool that it has the Takayama logo and Joel Tudor on it. That was an immensely influential era in John and I's surfing. Pretty much the only longboarder worth watching at the time along with Kevin Connolly, Josh Farberow, Tom Wegner, Jimmy Gamboa, Tyler Hatzikian, etc.
We were in 9th grade and we would get John's mom to drive us down to Oceanside so we could go in Takayama's shop and drool over Model T's.
TJ's dad had a 9'6" triple stringer Joel Tudor Flow Model by Takayama. It was a pintail. I wonder if he still has it. I wonder if he still has that garage full of boards and drawers full of fins...
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i hope he does. that garage was the craziest shit ever.
it's all true...
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