We have great news for our friends and clients.

We are starting a partnership with the renamed Australian surfer and shaper Dylan Longbotoon.

And from now on, you can have your own Dylanshapes boards ready for you at the best surfing destination in the world, at the time you arrive here and even better, with a special price.

Dylanshapes make surfboards in Bali using imported high quality materials and with a wide options of models. Most of them special designed using Dylan long experience testing boards in many types of waves all around the world. 

One of the most highly regarded surfer shaper’s in the world,
Dylan is known for his big wave antics and his free surfing all around the globe.

The boards are the end result of every tube, every air, every carve has made – It all flows through.

As one of the worlds best surfer/shaper’s, Dylan uses the direct influence and experience to create the most functional and responsive board’s he can.

With it being a known fact that he is a true traveller and test’s his equipment in all waves and condition’s,
you know you can have confidence in what you’re getting.

We already order a quiver to be ready for our clients make a test drive at the resort and we are stoked with this news.

Here we continue searching to always improve the resort services where you can at the same time find the best support to enjoy the best waves in the world and also feel like home.

Dylanshapes and Hidden Bay Resort, delivering more tools to make you rip in your next trip to the Mentawais.

Choose your model here: https://dylansurfboards.com/boards/ and get in touch with us tomorrow make your special rockets to your next trip to paradise.

Here an interview with Dylan for the wavelengthmap website where you can learn more about him and his boards.

Dylan Longbottom, Dylan Surfboards

Dylan made the transition from bricklayer to a world-renowned free surfer and big wave freak throughout the 90s and 2000s. Around 15 years ago he picked up the planer (as his father had before him) and started shaping boards. He is known for his big wave guns and tow boards that he makes for the likes of Chumbo, Matahi Drollet and Laurie Towner, but also crafts progressive sticks for Charley Martin, Kian Martin, Lennix Smith, and his daughter Summa. He is 50 and has shaping bays in Bali, Cronulla and Portugal, and is still doing big airs and charging the heaviest waves in the world. 

“The first board in the bag would be a small wave, high-performance board in PU construction like my Mexican Model that has a slightly flatter rocker, touch fuller nose, more area in plan shape with a hip in front of the fins. So, for me being 80 kilograms and standing 6’0″, I love riding this board on little beachies, points, and reefs at an inch shorter than my height at 5’11” by 19 1/4″ x 2 1/2”. It’s a hip squash tail with single-to-double concave coming in around the 30-litre mark. 

My second board would be a crossover between a step-up board and a high-performance board. I’d have it a couple of inches longer than my height. My Predator model is designed to suit waves from four to 12 feet and I can surf it when it’s barrelling or just good solid waves. It’s great in the tube and the little extra length helps to draw out my turns. I would glass this one super strong, so it lasts through my travels and I don’t want it too light for those good days anyway. I would make it 6’2″ by 19” x 2′ 9/16′ at 31.5 litres with a round rail, not too pulled in though, and a nice medium rocker with slighter concaves. It’s a solid, trusty shortboard that will handle any type of wave and is definitely a worthy travel companion.”

Ref: 

https://wavelengthmag.com/the-ultimate-two-board-travel-quiver-part-2/

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