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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s be honest. You’re not gonna go run out and buy a finless asymmetrical surfboard after watching this, are you? Unless, of course, you’re a really, really good surfer like French-Caribbean pro ...