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Jye Gudenswager of Gen 4 Surfboards, Smorgasboarder Podcast, Fight for the Bight, road fuel recipes, surfboards, Fuzzeilear and more
Jye Gudenswager of Gen 4 Surfboards, Smorgasboarder Podcast, Fight for the Bight, road fuel recipes, surfboards, Fuzzeilear and more
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smorgasboarder<br />
fourth<br />
generation<br />
With over 80 years of Australian surfing legacy<br />
built into his genes, Jye Gudenswager is the<br />
founder of Gen4 Surfboards and has plied his<br />
trade with some of the biggest brands in the<br />
surfboard manufacturing industry of today.<br />
While utilising the highest technology available,<br />
Gen4 aims to offer consumers the possibility to<br />
purchase high quality sleds at a wholesale price.<br />
This new age thinking mixed with Jye’s unique<br />
family history in surfboard design could possibly<br />
see Gen4 change the way we buy our next<br />
surfboard.<br />
The name Gen4 Surfboards originates from Jye<br />
being the fourth generation of his family to be<br />
a pioneer in surfboard design. A tradition that<br />
began with Jye’s great grandfather Frank Adler<br />
who built some of the first plywood surfboards<br />
know as ‘toothpicks’ during the 1940s. Frank was<br />
followed into the surfing world by his son-in-law<br />
Ken who owned a string of well-known surf stores<br />
throughout the East Coast of Australia such as<br />
Adler Surf Centre and Ken Custom Surfboards<br />
before owning San Juan Surfboards in Byron Bay.<br />
Jye’s father is also a four-time Queensland surfing<br />
representative who competed for Snapper Rocks<br />
board riders club throughout the 1980s and ‘90s.<br />
words: alex benaud<br />
For the bigger, longer conversation, listen at<br />
smorgasboarder.com.au/podcast<br />
itunes spotify buzzsprout<br />
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