We’ve just got a nice box of leashes and fin savers for the site and boy do they look good. We thought we’d ask the man behind it, Theo Caget, on why he decided to start his own accessory brand, Soyroll.

Tell Boogtique a little about yourself?
Hi i’m Theo. I hail from France… have been bbing since i was a little kid, maybe 7 or 8 y.o. I used to bodyboard at my grand parents place in french Britany but i now live in SW France. Did studies in Paris, skated heaps there and have always been influenced by skateboarding, designs, art and waves i guess. I’m 29 now, my knees hurt from skating and drop kneeing but my love for bbing is intact, hehe same as when i was 8 and rode my first foam wave to the sand.
What was your main drive behind starting Soyroll?

I’ve kind of always wanted to create a brand that would reflect my vision and what i like in term of designs and quality and i felt that what lacked in the bbing industry was a real good accessories brand that would be 100% into bodyboarding and would produce good quality and well designed accessories. I mean there are lots of good boards, a couple really good clothing labels but no brand was specialized in making quality accessories. Soyroll™ was born from that motivation and those observations basically. All Soyroll™ accessories are hi quality products made in the USA and even our garments are made with the highest quality coton, tees and fleeces you can find, it’s screenprinted on american apparel stuff. I wouldn’t have liked to produce something that i wouldnt use or wear myself so i did what i like and what i wanted to see in a brand.
Ace, explain where the name came from?

The name is just a stupid contraction between a few names i thought were cool: Soy Sauce & Sushi Roll mainly. It was also cool to have the “soy” thing in the name because some of our tees are screenprinted with soy-based and water-based inks. It was cool to have that “soy” part in the brand’s name i guess since we put a lot of effort into doing an eco-friendly range of accessories and threads.

What’s the eco spin on it?

All leashes are made with hi-grade recyled urethane (Recycled Urethane Technologies – RUT) and Soyroll™ is the first brand to have done this, yewwwwww – oh yeah and all our packgaging is made with recycled paper+cardboard and waterbased inks for prints. Save the planet one leash at a time ! hahah

Thanks Theo. He’s a bloody nice chap and is also the man behind spongercity.

So if you want to save the environment and don’t want to loose your board. Buy a leash here.