Ashley Lloyd Surfboards

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The Blue Otter Pop.

This dear friend is the first board I ever shaped! I have been blessed with a lot of kind humans in my life. My old boyfriend, Ethan Brostedt (RIP) , gave me the blank as a gift after my first shaping tutelages of foam and balsa from Danny Tarampi. (Please message me if you are in touch or if you know if Danny is still with us. He would be an old man now, and has always responded right away to me, and been able to get a hold of him for a few years now)

Danny recommended I make my own template of the curves I liked from my 98Y blank. Clearly I was influenced by the Farberow Model from , as I grew up surrounded by the beautiful pintail and his amazing surfing in Malibu.
The Blue Otter Pop was shaped at the Wilderness in Santa Barbara, where the 101 S freeway now lays over. Socially awkward and big eyed to take in the crafts of Eden King and the rest of the boys from the Wildo who kindly accepted me into their space to learn how to build the board. Eden helped me glass it and was such an amazing laminator!
Ethan also shaped and built a board of his own, and i remember paddling out with him for the first time at Malibu, both smiling as we dipped into the inside waters edge and found that our first boards built together floated!
After I shaped this one, Ethan built us a shaping room on the side of my mom’s townhouse! We mostly used construction waste we found dumpster diving to build the bay, and i can’t believe my mom actually let us put it there!
Dozens of boards were built there while I shifted into shaping models with and moved to santa cruz to focus on music.
Although these photos were taken by 1/2 way through my shaping life, they still bring back fond memories of all sorts.
I am so grateful for all of the people, bays, and friends that have floated in and out of my life. there are too many to mention but here’s a few more.


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Came across these sweet pics today from . I love being a mama. What a gift it is to be an earth guide to this great teacher I get to call my son. I am grateful for the smile lines I have deepened since these photos. 💕 😊 🪞 🥹 💫🥰

Came across these sweet pics today from . I love being a mama. What a gift it is to be an earth guide to this great teacher I get to call my son. I am grateful for the smile lines I have deepened since these photos. 💕 🪞 🥹 💫🥰

I love surfboards. I love that I love surfboards.
this one, available

flow ducttape pintail
extremely good condition
for sale $1250
flax deck and bottom
made with love ecoboard
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i love making surfboards. thanks for glassing them for me
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Always a special thing for me to introduce someone to their new surfboard. Enjoy the ride Tony!!

9’ Everything available!
ecoglassing by
bio-epoxy/ flax deck / EPS ecoboard
$1750+tax
Gift certificates also available for custom orders

9’ Everything in Stock! light aqua , flax deck, single fin
$1750 + tax, includes fin
ecoglassing by

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finding nature on the edge of a parking lot with my friend and a surfboard which is also a friend
glassing

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Made with love for _________

Favorite things about my job as a surfboard shaper is listening to your individual needs, experiences and desires with your surfing evolution. If you have been dreaming of getting a board, or have a loved one you’d like to support with an amazing gift, send me a message and we’ll get the process started.
I have gift certificates and fins shirts and hoodies available and tangible now. 🎁 🎄

For sale
all flax
6’ x 22” x 3 full volume
$800 OBO

Dawn Patrol with the best surf buddy ever 💕
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I love how the word “evolve” has the word “love” in it.

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Love; the best stuff I know.

So sweet to surf in the Malibu Classic last weekend !!
sharing this photo sent me. bringing me to the immense gratitude for all of the dear friendships and faces i have seen at these club events for years.
Appreciation and gratitude are a bit different and both such special feelings. Gratitude comes more with overcoming and maybe the relief of what is now vs then.
why the gratitude? i still feel lit up from this journey. It’s been years since feeling the magic of this wave do it’s true thing.
I got to give a few concerts for my dad and his assisted living companions who gush love, song and rhythm; an unspoken energy in the realm of “old people life” which i truly admire. I am learning new meanings for dignity and grace by witnessing the perfection of change.

It was an honor to lose first round in the noseriding masters event to some of the greatest surfers i know. I then slipped into the alternate slot for my women’s 40-49 division , which i ended up winning! (again surfing with some of the greatest surfers i know!! made it up to the announcer’s mic for some heats, again witnessing such amazingness from a different perspective.
Lots of examples of why we are no more or less magnificent of beings taking home a trophy or not. It’s fun to win and fun to realize winning happens in other places than the podium.

Dear friends, familiar faces i have taken for granted, buoys, judges, announcers, shapers, organizers, cheerleaders, homestayers, thank you for being where ever you may be.
Here’s to constant change and trust in change. although unfamiliar can be so uncomfortable, relief is so sweet.

i love you all dearly.

thanks for being you.

trimming through things that are so much bigger than us. we are so much bigger than us.
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Dom and family are the Lloyd’s neighbors, and Dom works for my brother ( living 4 doors down from houses burnt to the ground.

Fortunately they got out safely. They lost everything but their precious lives. Their neighborhood in Kula was TOLD to evacuate.

There are questions in heartbreak of why Lahaina didn’t have the same approach with warnings to evacuate. I am hearing reports in a combination of horror, devastation, gratitude, and the Maui as well as global community rising up in support.

A lot of people are reaching out and asking how my family is doing and what they can help with. These folks are dear to them, please make a donation if this helps some relief for you, as it would be helpful for them. thank you.

hi. i like hanging pretty fabrics on my van. come check out some of the items items in my collection at our pop-up Aug 5th, in Santa Cruz
10am -3 pm

photo at the event last year.

-Reading Waves-
The ocean is always giving to us.  What are we giving to the ocean when we come forth to it?
 
 
In learning to read waves, you may experience clarity, less anxiety, where to go to take a break, where to go get into more action, and open the doors of perspective for gauging the momentum of other surfers and how to apply the idiosyncrasies of etiquette.
 
 Teaching people how to read waves could take lifetimes, as I am still learning how to read waves myself.  I look forward to the conversations on way in my 2nd class in Cultivating Surf Momentum. 
 
I love waves. Reading them is a never ending book.
 
Sign up on the Traveler website.  Link in my bio.


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My course begins! Sign up through website.

I’m going to start this very first class with “Beginner Basics.” This will be an awesome class for anyone who has never surfed and wants to establish a good understanding of what may go on in the ocean before they enter it on a surfboard! Not limited to 1st timers, long-time intermediates can also gain a refresher, clean up or bring awareness to some habits they may have developed. As a surf instructor since the age of 17, I have heard many stories where people carry ocean and life traumas into their surfing. While I can’t reverse time for anyone, it has been an honor for me to help people move through things with surfing, in the present moment that they come to me with. I love getting in the ocean with people and watching their improvement as they are held by the ocean. I have also found that a lot can happen through conversations and visualizing on land. This is what sprung my desire to share my knowledge with folks in this format on solid land.
My hope is to give you tools of how to better stay present and more prepared in the unpredictable conditions of the ocean, moving through what may be holding you back, addressing questions or situations in the stillness of a conversation on land. Being introduced and processing information in a safe feeling environment can allow for further connection with yourself and the ocean. The ocean will always be a force greater than us. The momentum we choose to respond to its power can be cultivated. 🌊 ❤️

Some basic things I will cover before the Q & A
-Pop-ups, getting through waves, timing

• Reading Waves and Etiquette are crucial parts of surfing! This will be touched upon in the first class, and deeper delved into in the following courses.
• These courses do not ensure absolute safety in the ocean at any given moment. This course allows the opportunity to gain more knowledge as you proceed in your relationship to mother ocean.
sign up link in my profile bio ⬆️

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grateful now for then and now for now and now for when.

dear friends, i have just completed listening to or deleting the messages that had piled up on my phone from the surfboard bottleneck days of covid. thank you for reaching out. i apologize if you didn’t hear back from me, or did 3 years later in an awkward attempt in replying 😆. for those who didn’t receive such a strange call text or email, you too are valued and important. you are all magnificent and i thank you. i am using this platform as a weird way to say thank you.

i have witnessed that ordering a custom surfboard can take some bravery, so if you reached out to several shapers and didn’t hear back, they may have been in the same boat! they could ready for you now!

i am happy and ready take more orders. It’s so fun to hear what people are excited about in their surfing!

“A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.” Eckhart Tolle

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Thoughts on Kick-outs…
Whatever is going on kind of feels like a kick-out to me.
Kick-outs have the potential to be so fun!!
Kick-out: Harnessing the energy of a wave to send you flying off it into the field of potential that the vast ocean always has for us.

Kick-outs can get awkward sometimes. An anticipation of change and shift of energy.
There’s lots of reasons for kick-outs. Obstructions in our path, no shoulder, closeout on its way, wave’s energy dissipated.
When we don’t have a plan or practiced sense of what direction to take, it can feel lackluster, urgent, even scary.

A vulnerability to be where we are, not yet knowing the answer, but trusting that there is path far greater than we can chart out through our minds.

Maybe I love kick-out’s so much because I have learned through awkward wave endings that I can trust that it all works out. I have the ability, just as anyone does, to find a path that works uniquely for me, that has less resistance than a path that may be ideal for someone else.

Sometimes we need to kick-out to keep from getting worked. Other times we just get worked and we don’t get to kick-out. Other times we almost get worked and kind of straighten out then disappear into the wave. Sometimes we don’t see how to kick-out. Other times we decide to ride out the section because committing to staying in the wave is the thrill.

“This too shall pass.”

Transformation to another beginning. There are always going to be more waves. How do you want to ride them? How do you want to kick-out?

I’ve seen people find satisfaction in different kinds of kick-outs;
-The mechanical prepared timing, kind of like checking a box off a list and then on to the next one.
-The flying off the wave and I don’t know what’s coming next, but I have these things that I love and I’m going to have the opportunity to use them soon kind of kick-out.

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Momentum.
There’s nothing quite like riding waves! I can daydream of surfing and this momentum blossoms and pollinates other bits of my life.
Conversations in AND out of the water can frame things in the direction you would like them to go with your own surf experience.

The ocean can always humble us. There will never be a pause or rewind button.
On land, surf momentum can be cultivated to help give you a connected foundation in surfing.

I look forward to helping folks be further in-tune with their surf learnings through love and joy!

Join me for the new course I’m starting, which will take place in Santa Cruz. Thursdays at 5:30 pm.

My intention with this course is to help people further connect with themselves in sharing my own love and joy of the ocean.
link in my profile.
👀 sign up on traveler website!

thank you for this beautiful photo 💫

Hi Friends!
I love playing music.
it’s been a while since i’ve released any new albums. This is an invitation to attend my spontaneous concert that just felt right to sing this day at Leo Carillo along with camping out and surfing like the good old days.
My friend captured my songs for you with the company of an Oak tree and some of my favorite surfboards.

Thank you for supporting independent artistic! We are can all honor our own unique magnificence. thank you for your own unique magnificence. ✨

Made with Love
Tessa inspired squaretail.
PU foam / bio-epoxy resin,

For sale $1650
fin included

Made with love for _______
(fill in the blank)
9’6” everything; pink pin line, cream rails and bottom , Cleo approved.
gold level ecoboard
glassed by with blue flax deck
yes i am wearing gloves and i did not drop harm any boards in the talk my of these photos 😅
$1750, fin included

I love linking people with their new surfboards. it’s one of my favorite parts of the process. Wish i had a photo of how beautifully he surfed this flowbird!! i don’t always get the opportunity to surf with the new board with rider. so fun and grateful.
fabric inlay!
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