Cam Scott is one of the few surfers on Earth who excels on a finless surfboard. If you’ve spent any time at all doing it, you know just how difficult it is, but he cut his teeth on a bodyboard so the ...
Finless surfboards are old school, ancient in fact. The alaia – a thin plank of koa wood with a rounded nose, no rocker, and no fins – was one model in the small quiver of Hawaiian surfers pre-20th ...
We all know that surfing started on fin-free equipment; the ancient Hawaiians rode the Olo and Alaia. In the late 19th Century, these gave way to the solid redwoods of the Duke Kahanamoku era and then ...
WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - An eccentric surf competition,limiting competitors to use just one irregular surfboard,will be hosted at Wrightsville Beach Saturday morning. Sean Griffin, owner of Sean's ...
A San Clemente company has a possible answer for surfers bummed that they can’t ride their hardboards in summer zones set aside for swimmers: “If you can’t join ’em, Beat ’em.” The Beater board, made ...
The surfboard looks nothing like the ancient Hawaiian aliaias it’s based on — or any other board, actually. Sold at Mollusk Surf Shop, it’s more sculpted than shaped, more tail-punched-out than left ...
Born out of creativity and desperation, skimboarding was conceived in Laguna Beach, California by the local lifeguards as a way to ride the predominantly shorebreak waves of their hometown – glass-on ...