“I just love surfing – that’s my passion, that’s my life… It’s just fortunate that I can make my own surfboards.”

Wade is one half of Hawaii’s most famous sibling/shaping combination. Joined by younger brother Kerry, over the past 23 years the Tokoro brothers have built a reputation for finely crafted surfboards. Holed up in their tiny shaping factory in Kahalu’u, on Oahu’s windward coast, the Tokoros have developed one of the most influential surfboard design hubs on the planet. Some of the world’s biggest names now have Tokoro boards under their feet, led by world champions Mick Fanning, Andy Irons, Sunny Garcia and Mark Occhilupo, as well as luminaries like Joel Parkinson, Jamie O’Brien and Kekoa Bacalso. It’s a pretty impressive list of surfers, but Wade is one of the most humble humans you’ll ever meet, just stoked on surfing.

“We just love surfing, but we like to work with our hands and it’s just evolved. Surfing and making boards, it just came naturally.”
“Wade’s boards are so smooth and easy to ride, they make surfing really enjoyable,” said Fanning. “He also surfs really good, which is invaluable for a shaper. He charges big Pipeline and is also very good in small waves. It always helps to have a shaper that can surf well to work with.”
This Tokoro partnership is for a complete range of boards exclusive to Rip Curl and available throughout stores worldwide. The range will include everything from shortboards to semi guns through to serious big wave boards.

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  Tokoro Mick Fanning

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  Tokoro Viper