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 ...

While there’s no way to learn about fin configurations that compares with actually riding them, these are just some of the basics on surfboard fins. When looking at surfboard design and performance as ...

Miles Park receives funding from AISRF and is a member of the DIA The surfboard industry remains a paradox – existing in a shared but parallel world of high-tech and traditional design and production ...

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 ...

Every single surfboard we ride carries a crucial piece of DNA from designs long gone. That concave bottom? The three-stage rocker? The tucked-edge rail? It all comes from experimental designs from ...

Last blog, John Elwell, a friend of Bob Simmons during the last five or six years of his life, shared stories from this great innovator. Here is Elwell's discussion on the planing hull: Aspect ratio ...

Classifying a surfboard design as gremmie or gnarly is almost impossible unless you've been initiated into the sun-drenched sub-culture of surfing. Fortunately for Bennys, Barneys, and Goat Boaters, a ...