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The Top 5 reasons to ride a Shortboard

The Top 5 reasons to ride a Shortboard

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As a surfer, there is a possibility that you ‘might have been riding’ the wrong board all your life. “Impossible! I am a pro rider,” you might be thinking. But the thing is, you just perfected riding the wrong board. I can’t blame you. I am a victim too. I started out with a standard thruster and everything was fun until it wasn’t. Surfing become boring. I was of the school of thought that “if it is not broken, then don’t replace it.” One day, my friends dragged me to the beach. One of them allowed me to borrow their...

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Surfboard Design - Types of Surfboards

Surfboard Design - Types of Surfboards

Surfboard Design So many different types of boards all made for different uses. What are they made for and which one may suit you best? Check out all the different styles of surfboard design and help find out which one suits your surfing needs. Shortboards This surfboard plan had incredible accomplishment with superior surfing in the 1970s and still permits surfers to push the limits of their capacity. The advanced shortboard is normally under seven feet long and is made for forceful surfing in basic segments of the wave. It is most generally seen with sharp noses, more slender rails, and...

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Surfboard Designer - Steve Walden

Surfboard Designer - Steve Walden

Surfboard Designer Known as the "Father of the Modern Longboard," and for his properly named "Magic" arrangement of surfboards, Steve Walden is a surfboard designer who eats, inhales and lives for surfing. Surfing benefits a lot of people, Walden is definitely one of them. In 1961, when Steve was 13 years of age, he moulded his first surfboard and never checked back. From that point forward, the California local has formed more than 25,000 surfboards and surfed in more than 200 challenges. By testing and outlining surfboards he cherishes to ride (surfboards that have additionally put him on the platform...

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History Of Surfing Innovation Part 5: The Shortboard Revolution

History Of Surfing Innovation Part 5: The Shortboard Revolution

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Part 5: The Shortboard Revolution Terry Fitzgerald's quiver of psychadelic sticks California Heritage Museum In the history of surfing innovation the Shortboard revolution was a critical period in terms of surfing innovation. In three years, from 1967 to 1970, the average 12-kilogram board dropped to 6; 5-kilogram boards. This short timeframe was crucial to where surfing is today and it has been credited to two forward thinking innovators, American George Greenough and Aussie Bob McTavish. In 1965, when the Santa Barbara kneeboarder Greenough visited the shaper McTavish on the North Coast of NSW, McTavish was impressed by Greenough’s flexible, lightweight kneeboards ability to...

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