Jon Pyzel is good at making surfboards. He’s known very well for his relationship with John Florence, having been his shaper since John has had a shaper, but John Florence would not have stuck with Pyzel through his world titles if Pyzel wasn’t an extraordinarily talent surfboard maker.
In an ideal world, we’d all have a shaper who was familiar with how we surfed, but that’s not the reality, unfortunately. Most of us have likely plucked a board off a rack at a surf shop at some point. We hoist it and bounce it under our armpits and stare down the stringer like we’re good enough for those things to actually matter all that much, but for someone like John, who actually is good enough (and whose livelihood depends on performance), having a shaper who has watched you grow through the years is a real boon.
But even a shaper with as high a profile as Pyzel can’t make a living shaping surfboards for one surfer and one surfer only, and most surfers want the unicorn surfboard that goes well in all conditions. Shapers want to make that board, but funnily enough, that board is probably a bit different for everyone. Enter The Precious, Pyzel’s attempt at a one-board quiver.
“The Precious was chosen by Jai Glindeman as his favorite of five Pyzel models tested in the film ‘Ordinal,” wrote the Pyzel team, “but much like its Lord of the Rings reference, the board has a long history dating back to an old friend who asked for a one-board quiver he could take around the world and have a good surf on. ‘One board to rule them all’ was the call and thus the name Precious came about!”
In the video above, Glindeman breaks down what, exactly, makes The Precious so special. And it’s a lot.
