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We make thoughtful surf products for the ocean and the lifestyle around it. Born in Los Angeles and shaped by a refined point of view, each piece is designed to extend every session with confidence, comfort, and lasting performance.

NO WAX. NO MESS. NO WORRIES.
Designed by HELM Supplies and shaped by Clyde Beatty Jr., our boards combine premium surf construction with a soft, rubber-like traction wrap on the deck and rails. That means wax-free grip, added durability, impact protection, and strong all-around performance in a fun, low-maintenance board.

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HELM Surfboards Shaper: Clyde Beatty Jr.

Clyde Beatty Jr. is known for his surfing, shaping and glassing.  He is the creator of the “Rocket Fish” surfboard design recognized to be the first performance fish of his time that many shapers have referenced to create their own version of the modern-day performance fish.  On the glassing side Clyde was an epoxy pioneer, and helped develop the first-ever produced light-stabilized epoxy resins.  Clyde has had the honor and pleasure to work with many of the greatest board builders and surfers to ever grace our planet.  He thanks them all, and sends his respect and love to all of them.

While going to University High School in Los Angeles during the latter part of the 60’s Clyde was a team rider for the Hobie / Blue Cheer surf shop in Santa Monica.  Here began his journey of shaping and glassing, and “studied the work of master shaper Mike Perry, laminator Bob Perry, and other craftsmen at the Blue Cheer factory.” (Gillogy, Brian “Song of the Sinosaurus” The Surfer’s Journal, V.31.1, p 100) While learning the ropes in board manufacturing, Clyde was also a 4A surfer the equivalent of an ASP pro.  
Clyde went on to have his own board-building factory, initially in Huntington Beach, and later with shaper Guy Okazaki in Santa Monica, all the while continuing to compete in surf contests riding his own boards to perfect his craft.  In the summer of 1984, he journeyed across the ocean to compete in the Newquay Pro-Am Surf Classic in Cornwall, England, and with him his epoxy Rocket Fish.  Through a series of coincidences, Clyde developed an interest for his epoxy surfboards from locals who saw him riding his Rocket fish.  In order to shape boards, he worked with a British plastics company, SP Systems and developed a higher quality light-stabilized epoxy resin.  Clyde brought this epoxy resin back home to his new factory in Santa Barbara and started to gain interest stateside.  “One interested party was Andy Irons. In 2005, Huntington Beach’s Casey McCrystal shaped Iron’s first epoxy boards and Beatty glassed them,” (Gillogy, p 100). Clyde continues his journey to this day, constantly progressing his shaping and exploring new methods of surfboard construction.

Works Cited: Gillogy, Brian “Song of the Sinosaurus” The Surfer’s Journal, V.31.1, p 100.

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