PYZEL SURFBOARDSは、1995年頃にハワイ・ノースショアの小さなバックヤードのシェイプルームからスタートし、現在では世界を代表するサーフボードブランドのひとつへと成長しました。
創設者のJon Pyzel(ジョン・パイゼル)は、カリフォルニア州サンタバーバラで育ち、中学生の頃にサーフィンを始めました。ローカルシェイパーMatt Mooreからサーフボードデザインの基礎を学び、1992年、より良い波と暖かい海を求めてハワイ・オアフ島のノースショアへ移住。Country Surfboardsでリペアやラミネートなどボード製作の技術を身につけた後、マスターシェイパーJeff Bushmanのもとで経験を積み、本格的にシェイパーとしてのキャリアをスタートさせます。
大きな転機となったのは1997年。当時5歳だったJohn John Florence(ジョン・ジョン・フローレンス)のボードをシェイプしたことでした。それ以来、二人は長年にわたりボード開発を続け、John Johnの世界トップレベルでのサーフィンとフィードバックは、Pyzelのボードデザインを進化させる大きな原動力となっています。
Pyzelが大切にしているのは、単に多くのボードを生産することではありません。サーフィン、旅、仲間、冒険、そして何よりサーフボードそのものへの情熱を原点に、一人ひとりのサーファーに合ったボードを作ることを追求しています。
ハワイ・ノースショアから始まったPyzel Surfboardsは、現在では世界各地で展開されるグローバルブランドへと成長。世界トップレベルのサーファーから得られるフィードバックとJon Pyzelのシェイピングを融合し、あらゆるレベルのサーファーに向けて、常に新しいサーフボードデザインを生み出し続けています。

Pyzel Surfboards began in a backyard shaping room on the North Shore around 1995 and has evolved to become one of the leading surfboard companies in the world today.  
Jon Pyzel grew up in Santa Barbara, California, started surfing in junior high and quickly fell deep into a new found passion. Soon after, local SB shaper Matt Moore began shaping Jon's boards and put him on his team of local surfers. Matt always helped explain the ideas and principles of surfboard design and let Jon watch him shape all his boards.
After traveling more for surf, Jon realized he wanted better waves and warmer water, making a permanent move to Oahu's North Shore in 1992. There he found work fixing dings at Country Surfboards and quickly learned the ins and outs of the craft, soon working as a hot coater and laminator. He then connected with master shaper Jeff Bushman, who gave him guidance, input, and encouragement to grow. Eventually, Jeff gave Jon a job as his back-shaper and that was the beginning of his shaping career.
A defining moment came a few years later, in 1997. Alex Florence approached Jon about making a board for her oldest son John John, who was 5 at the time. From there forward, Jon and John John worked together to redefine what was possible for Grom surfng. Fast forward almost 20 years and John John Florence is 2X World Champ, widely considered the best surfer alive, all while riding Pyzel surfboards.
When we think about our company today, we consider JJF as one of the cornerstones to our success, not just for his amazing surfng ability and priceless feedback, but also for his loyalty, his humble attitude, his gratitude, and his positive outlook on life.
We didin't start this all to become a giant company, putting out as many "units" as we could, we started it because we love surfing and everything that goes with that - travel to new lands, great friendships, adventure. But most of all we started this because we love surfboards!
Today Pyzel Surfboards has grown to be an international business, but is still run by the family. Jon and his wife Dali live on the beach in Hawaii with their 2 daughters, and help run the Pyzel Surfboards factories on the North Shore and in Oceanside, CA. We take great pride in every board we build, and have do our very best to make sure that our customers are getting exactly the right board for what they want to do. We have trusted licensees building our boards on every continent, and Jon shapes in Australia, Europe, Brazil, Japan, Indonesia, South America and California.