Australian surfer and shaper Neal Purchase Jr. has combined the best parts of a single-fin and a twin-fin in a new surfboard design he calls the Duo. Neal Purchase Jr. (NPJ) is an Australian ...
A few days ago I got an email asking me when they first started putting fins on surfboards and who was the first person to do that. So I thought it would be fun to take a little look at the evolution ...
More festival than contest, William Aliotti’s brainchild is a celebration of a specific surfboard design that so easily lends itself to a variety of styles. To put it bluntly, there are not many surf ...
This started out to be a brief recap of my 60 years of surfing and how the sport, lifestyle and I evolved through the many changes. Last week we left off in 1968 in the middle of the “Shortboard ...
When humans started riding surfboard-type vehicles towards the shore, whether it was in Hawaii or Peru, those first wave-riding craft were finless. The boards were simply pointed towards the shoreline ...
"The gloves are off tomorrow." That was Martin Potter's response this evening after coming up short in the twin-fin division of the Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy. That's a scary ...