Dane Reynolds Breaksdown the Dumpster Diver 2. The idea for this board came when Dane was riding his original Dumpster Diver while filming "Out of the Rafters" edit for Chapter 11 last year. He was was tripping out how how tiny and short the Dumpster Diver felt and wanted to build a longer - modernized version that still tapped into the magic of the original. The DD2 has a wider nose and tail, more nose and tail rocker, and a more subtle single concave. These updates, among other tweaks, allow the board to excel in a wider range of conditions and letting your rip as hard as you think you do. Dane also made a special set of fins for the board, that will work well in other designs if you like that slightly 2+1 feel.

Technically, the original Dumpster Diver was a short, fat squaretail, which eventually became the Neck Beard. I rode that board in Mexico and really liked it. I was coming home to do the Lowers contest and the forecast looked like it was gonna be waist-chest high, so I wanted to ride the board I’d been riding in Mexico. But back then, there was a weird thing about riding a groveler in a contest. Everybody thought you wouldn’t get scored if you were on a groveler. So with that in mind, I kind of tried to disguise a groveler as a shortboard by carving out a high performance shortboard nose onto the back end of the Dumpster Diver and then refining the tail a bit.

And that’s what I rode in the contest. And then I brought it back out when I did that project last year, Out of the Rafters, I was just blown away that I rode that thing in the contest. It is insane. Paddling-wise, it feels like you’re on a skimboard. It’s so tiny. The curves are so extreme and I imagine the production version was probably built out to be way more user friendly, because that a lot of people love the Dumpster Diver, but that original one that I rode is insane, a Frankenstein board.

After that, I hit up Brit and was like, ‘hey, let’s do a Dumpster Diver, but like stretch it out a couple inches.’ The original was 5’7″ and I stretched out to 5’10” and built a more modern nose and instantly liked it. The idea was to use the rocker profile that was magic for a lot of people but rework to get it more modern. And then we started kind of playing with different rail lines and stuff to kind of compensate for the three inches longer. And it became my favorite board.

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