LaBreau Surfboards is a company based out of Artesia, CA / Huntington Beach, CA. Jeremy LaBreau was getting ready a month before his second surf trip to the North Shore of Oahu (winter season). While packing he realized that with only two surfboards, he did not have one of size to match the waves he was hoping to conquer.
Just by luck his friend Ruben who lived not to far from his home told Jeremy that he had an old 70’s style 6’9” retro surfboard that he was going to throw away. So Jeremy picked it up from Ruben's house and took it back home. While gazing at it in the garage, wondering what he could possibly do with a dinged up water-logged retro board, he decided that it had the potential of being a big wave surfboard. With dings and gashes in this beast, the foam was overly exposed on one spot.
Curiosity came upon Jeremy... “I wonder if I can strip all the fiberglass?” Jeremy placed one foot on the surfboard and tugged off a huge clean strip of fiberglass practically from nose to tail! With excitement and even more curiosity fueling the process the old surfboard was stripped all the way to it’s bare foam (a blank).
At this time Jeremy had been surfing for about four years and had an idea of how people made surfboards. He knew that it could be shaped into whatever he desired! Not having a single professional shaping tool, other than his bare hands, one 4” x 6” piece of rough sand paper, and a small electric sander ‘HE WENT TO WORK’. After a week of kneeling on the cement driveway shaping, the board was decently shaped into a 6’2 round tail! Being new to all this, He new the next step would be to get it glassed, but where? He asked around for glass shops and heard of one in San Clemente. Once it was all done and finished Jeremy had a sense of great pride in his work. To his amazement the first board that he had made in worked great on the North Shore where he surfed it most of the time at Rocky Point.
While staring at his new board that he shaped, he decided to ask around where to get blanks. Just the idea of having his own professional label made him quiver, but it was a dream that he was determined to make a reality! Little did he know, the old, dirty, spider-webbed, tin-roofed storage shack in his Grandma’s backyard would be ground zero for “LaBreau Shapes and Designs”… Soon after, he had made more boards for friends, family and even pro surfers such as Kilian Garland (Volcom rider) and was getting remarkable complements on them. Also from shapers such as Chris Kaysen and Ryan Sakal which made Jeremy believe that he may have a future in the business some day. Ryan began to take a liking to this new young shaper. Board by board was getting glassed, and finally after speculation of Jeremy’s boards Ryan Sakal himself offered Jeremy a shaping job! THE REST IS HISTORY… LABREAU SHAPES AND DESIGNS… We are dedicated to being RELIABLE, REASONABLE, & RESPONSIBLE to all of our customers. We've got service you can depend on.
LABREAU SURFBOARDS are handcrafted and made with the highest quality material used in the industry for strength, performance, and value. Proudly made 100% in the U.S.A.
