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CMC > 9 months ago, 23 Oct 2012

CMC

QLD

3954 posts

23 Oct 2012 10:47am

Don't know the details yet but just heard Donald Takayama has passed away.

Am I out of the loop and this is old news or so fresh there is nothing about it to find??

chrispychru

QLD

7932 posts

23 Oct 2012 10:54am

either or either in the loop cmc...first i have heard off it....
R.I.P. Mr Donald Takayama..i loved the scorpion

the surfing world thanks you as we say goodbye

Kiana

QLD

36 posts

23 Oct 2012 10:54am

think its new news. Tom Wegener just posted the same on Facebook. Said he just got the news but didn't know much more at this stage.

BulldogPup

6657 posts

23 Oct 2012 8:56am

Rest peacefully Donald - Legend

Ted the Kiwi

NSW

14256 posts

23 Oct 2012 12:23pm

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BulldogPup said...
Rest peacefully Donald - Legend

+ 1 sad news.

doggie

15849 posts

23 Oct 2012 9:24am

BB will be devo, he luvs a Tak

62mac

24860 posts

23 Oct 2012 9:46am

Some sad news there,one of the worlds best shapers with a huge following R.I.P.

jasdeking

QLD

1820 posts

23 Oct 2012 11:53am

very sad news indeed

towball

4634 posts

23 Oct 2012 11:12am

I hope he was still surfing , Iknow he was a couple of years back , always thought it would be great to surf till the end .RIP Donald

Very very sad news and a great loss to surfing. Without doubt one of the greatest shapers of all time and in my opinion the creator of the best surfboard ever made - the ITP !!!

R.I.P Mr Takayama - you will be sadly missed.

doggie

15849 posts

23 Oct 2012 1:05pm

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billboard said...
Very very sad news and a great loss to surfing. Without doubt one of the greatest shapers of all time and in my opinion the creator of the best surfboard ever made - the ITP !!!

R.I.P Mr Takayama - you will be sadly missed.

Have you still got your ITP?

billboard

QLD

2819 posts

23 Oct 2012 3:20pm

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doggie said...

Have you still got your ITP?

No - havent been able to ride a mal' for a long time mate. Thinking seriously about getting a custom sup made up in original ITP colours as a tribute though.

62mac

24860 posts

23 Oct 2012 1:23pm

That would be a nice touch BB I like your thinking but you would have to keep it!

Simondo

VIC

8024 posts

23 Oct 2012 4:32pm

Very sad. RIP.

obct

NSW

3487 posts

23 Oct 2012 4:40pm

Terrible news, at just 68 he really deserved a much longer retirement.

Especially when you Consider the joy that his designs bought to so many

I, guess the old ticker finally gave up, it almost got him a few years back.

He had a truck load of stents put in.

www.standuppaddlesurf.net/2008/09/19/surf-icon-donald-takayama-the-talk-story/

doggie

15849 posts

23 Oct 2012 1:43pm

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billboard said...

doggie said...

Have you still got your ITP?

No - havent been able to ride a mal' for a long time mate. Thinking seriously about getting a custom sup made up in original ITP colours as a tribute though.

Jeepers your back must really bad then, sorry to hear it mate.

smh

NSW

7269 posts

23 Oct 2012 5:01pm

Pretty sad news. Love his boards.

SP

10982 posts

23 Oct 2012 3:34pm

RIP Mr Tak, you were a legend...

Horrible news...

Simondo

VIC

8024 posts

23 Oct 2012 6:38pm

There's some really nice photos on this link. Old & New.

Donald T - Longboarding Pioneer
(potential book title!)

www.legendarysurfers.com/2010/08/donald-takayama.html

PS - one of the reasons I was really keen to head to the Maldives with Bob McTavish, was that it would be one of the last opportunities to ever get that sort of time with such a Longboarding Legend. I will be able to tell my son about that in years to comes. It feels like it gives me closer to link to the roots of Longboarding. Could have easily been a 'Donald T' Maldives Trip.

Daneli

QLD

1538 posts

23 Oct 2012 6:30pm

Anyone passing is sad news. Even more so when a legend like Donald Takayama.

SP

10982 posts

23 Oct 2012 4:38pm

Two good clips...

62mac

24860 posts

23 Oct 2012 5:22pm

The Man

smh

NSW

7269 posts

23 Oct 2012 9:13pm

Thats what i like about his boards that long flat entry rocker. heaps of speed . He surfed very well too.

SP

10982 posts

23 Oct 2012 6:16pm

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62mac said...
The Man

You said you read all my posts...

But worthy of being posted and watched twice, great clip.

Ted the Kiwi

NSW

14256 posts

23 Oct 2012 11:32pm

I felt weird today glassing my board - its based off a Tak Model T but I changed the tail, nose and concave under the nose.....but it will always be the Tak that influenced my first shape. My first 666 was a Tak.

BulldogPup

6657 posts

23 Oct 2012 8:54pm

I know where there's a spanking new 903 woodie Tak , wonder if it will stay there much longer as it will become a collectors item now - too young to go so much that he gave , a true waterman

62mac

24860 posts

24 Oct 2012 5:32am

Sorry SP I tuned out for a few minutes and found the clip and posted and then I read yours after so all good I do read all your posts

sharpie

NSW

347 posts

24 Oct 2012 4:03pm

yes very sad. he cooked an awesome teriaki chicken on the barbi at the world titles in malibu for all the crew, i will never forget that yummy chicken, think it was about 1996, the same year some kook got punched out for cruising through the comp area.

Ted the Kiwi

NSW

14256 posts

24 Oct 2012 6:26pm

Thats a great memory of the great man to have Sharpie.....

Does anyone know why he called one of his boards The Model T?

obct

NSW

3487 posts

24 Oct 2012 6:35pm

I always assumed it was because it's the first letter of his name

Ted the Kiwi

NSW

14256 posts

24 Oct 2012 7:20pm

Thanks obct

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