Hey there.
We figured that it was time to let our customers in on a bit of who we are and where we came from,
so here we go.
We grew up surfing in San Diego, California. Getting in the water as much as possible was always extremely important to us. Not only because it provided an outlet away from school and parents or any thing else that might have been going on, it also provided inspiration and a challenge to accomplish something important to us. The challenges of riding bigger waves, busting a fins free turn for the first time, that first legitimate barrel, or that first air were all bench marks and mile stones in our surfing as much as in our lives.
Strickly Boarding Company was started in 2003. After graduating from college and going on surf trips and doing a bit of traveling we had a wealth of great waves and fond memories but other than pictures, there was no physical way to keep the feeling of stoke with us. Looking back on our high school and college notebooks with hours of perfect waves carefully and longingly drawn in the margins, the answer suddenly became clear. We needed to capture the stoke that we felt when we started surfing, that stoke that we recapture every time we get a great wave now. We have an innate need to keep those few seconds when we connect that perfect roundhouse, or get an insanely deep pit stay to stay with us, and we feed off that feeling until the next time we can recapture the feeling.
We started working out of our bedrooms and apartments, showing local Southern California surf shops (and surfers) what we thought surf jewelry and wave rings should be, really capturing the love of surfing and the ocean that we grew up with. After teaming up with world reknowned jewelery artist Mary Armatis, our vision of capturing the image of that perfect surf spot or travel memory became a reality, and our custom hand crafted .925 sterling silver surf jewelry and surf accessories line was born.
We just moved into our new digs in Cardiff, CA, in north San Diego County and you can now find our products up and down the west and east coast of the U.S. as well as through out Hawaii. We are constantly meeting new people and expanding our product lines, so hopefully if we are not there already, will be coming to a shop near you very soon. As always our entire line of surf jewelry, wave rings and accessories is available here at our online home at stricklyboarding.com. We hope you enjoy what we have to offer as much as we did finding the inspiration to create these one of a kind products.
Mahalo,
Joe Tutrow
Founder / Owner / Surfer
