Rod Dahlberg
Rod Dahlberg remains one of Australia’s best shapers, and was the shaper behind Occy’s dominant years and world title. Originally from New Zealand, as a young teenager, Rod saw a lot of older surfers heading over to Australia for the winter, usually to warmer Queensland. Rod first travelled to Australia in when he was 19 years old, on a road trip from Noosa to Angourie over the space of several months. Now, Rod calls Australia home. | |||
| Rod shaped Occy’s board for a competition in , and Kelly Slater is noted to have said that this surfing was the best he had ever seen up until this point, which gave Rod and his boards immense credibility, validating his shapes and putting his logo on the global stage. | |||
| Rod considers his personal approach to shaping boards as being “conservative”. He doesn’t stay up at night trying to dream up the next big break through, because he is certain that someone else has already done it. Rod believes that materials in construction will only continually evolve, as will designs and surfing performances - just as he has witness in the last 70 years. | |||
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| Dale Surfboards | circa Dave Passinger and Les Patterson (Entry adjusted thanks to Denis Wright, April ) 18 Powells Poad, Brookvale. Phone 93 - Surfabout, Volume 2 Number 10 c, page x. Harbord Road Brookvale, NSW Les Patterson ; Dick van Straalen;Ron Wade, R.P. 73 Winbourne Road Brookvale Safeset Fin System Barry King- B.K. shaper markings # Dale 7 ft 10'' Round-tail shaped by Bob McTavish 7ft 10" by John Otton, Bob McTavish, , John Otton, Steve O’Donnnell, John Blanch, Chris Beecham, Brian Ingham and Robby Barnes. Decals: Top: circa Centre: Triangle circa , contributed by snazzy, April Bottom: circa Below: Dale Surfboards, McTavish Forms, circa by Brad Bricknell Rod Dahlberg has been there and done that. But he’s done it in the kind of way that makes you want to sit down with a glass of red around an open fire, and just listen to his stories. He was the shaper behind Occy’s dominant years and world Title, he is a mad fan of the WSL, and he also gives us his take on wavepools. What brought you over to Australia from New Zealand?As a young teenager, I saw a lot of the older surfers head over to Oz for the winter. Usually to Queensland where it was warmer, as the NZ winters are pretty chilly and wetsuit technology was nowhere near where it is today. Naturally, I wanted to do the same. My first trip was as a year old in with my best mate Nev Hill. We started off in Noosa and worked our way down to Angourie, where we parked up from June to September. I surfed more great waves in that time than the combined total of all my previous surfing experiences! I flew back to NZ for the summer with a head full of design ideas and a much better surfer. What gives you the most satisfaction out of the shaping process?The shaping process itself, especially hand shaping is quite laborious, noisy, dusty etc. With three Rodney E Dalberg -ADVERTISEMENT BY This page exists for YOU and everyone who remembers Rodney. Share what you know, Invite others to do the same, Someone, somewhere will find this page, Rodney E Dalberg's History: -
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