Juan Rodriguez - West Central Gulf Coast Florida's legendary shaper extraordinaire.

Juan's World
Juan Rodriguez of One World Surfboards & Products
Featured Shaper October 2007

Written on October 1, 2007

After producing my film "Going With The Flow: Classic California Soul Surfing" I was stoked over surfing history and it's roots from the Golden Age and my thoughts wandered closer to home. Just because the Central Gulf Coast Florida shores are notorious for several months worth of flat spells, most local surfers spend their time traversing the globe in search of clean canvases to sink their hungry teeth in too. This desire to travel and understand the waves and how they break in various locales around the globe keeps the mind constantly dreaming; what are the best tides, seasons, swell directions, and which surfboards will be best utilized to experience the final act of surfing once there. When you dedicate your life to surfing, magical things seem to happen. Unexpected surf trips come out of no where, related creative endeavors come together and the lifestyle allows one to exist in a state of mind not shared by many of our other land dwelling counterparts. It's here in the creation of how one wants to live is where freedom is fully expressed. Through the total creative freedom of one many are affected in more ways than all could ever know and understand. Juan Rodriguez, a legendary shaper and life long surfer from this little piece of Florida heaven, has been happily residing and shaping not only boards but fantastic wooden creations fitting into many parts of the surfing life. Living the dream while passing on the stoke is what keeps classic guys like Juan balanced while on his daily slide.

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Juan's World.
Juan Rodriguez of One World Surfboards & Products
Featured Shaper October 2007