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Friday, 2 January 2009
It's said that some of the best ideas are born of despair. For Thorpe "Sharky" Reeder, that expression is all too true, and the Capistrano Beach inventor-artist-fisherman hopes one day that the resulting idea will one day pay off in financial success.
Reeder is the inventor of the GripBoard, a wave riding device that fills the void between bodysurfing and bodyboarding. Reeder invented the concept when in 1979, two years after moving to California from Florida, he suffered a vicious skateboarding accident that made standing up on a surfboard too difficult.
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