Maurice Cole talking about the Reverse Vee - video
Wednesday 20/05 0
Maurice Cole talks about the history of the Reverse Vee and what's happening with the design now.
Design Outline
Maurice Cole and Tom Curren relaunch the Reverse Vee
Wednesday 20/05 49
Twenty five years after Maurice Cole and Tom Curren teamed up with the Reverse Vee, they're now releasing a limited run of the once-revolutionary design.
The channel revival: Modern takes on a classic design
Thursday 23/04 83
Once considered a design suited only to perfect waves, more and more channel bottoms are finding their way into the board bags of pro surfers. Swellnet finds that new twists are being put on the classic old design.
The Shaper - video
Tuesday 21/04 7
Filmmaker Owen Rennie combines shaping room grime and a string orchestra in this little ode to hand shaping.
Stretch Riedel: Share a cigar with a modern master
Friday 20/03 22
The Santa Cruz shaper lights up a stogie and riffs on epoxy experimentation, the climate change scam, and how surfboards can go shorter.
Pleading the fifth: The case for the fifth fin
Friday 06/02 93
Kelly Slater, Greg Webber, and Stuart D'Arcy state the case for screwing a fifth fin into your quad.
Uncommon board riding
Thursday 08/01 48
What do you call a board that combines surfing, bodysurfing, and bodyboarding?
Magic Carpets featuring Dave Rastovich
Thursday 08/01 43
A written and visual ode to great surfboards, and the man who shapes them, composed by Nathan Oldfield.
Firewire introduce side cut technology with The Cornice
Thursday 08/01 40
Looking more snowboard than surfboard, Firewire's latest model, The Cornice, utilises side cut technology plus other features that set it apart from the bog standard high performance shortboard.
Machine shaped
Wednesday 10/12 71
They're two of Margaret River’s most respected and influential shapers who’ve fulfilled the requirements of more local surfers than anyone. So if Al Bean and Marty Littlewood don’t have a problem with shaping machines, perhaps you shouldn’t either.
Twinzers: The Forgotten Four Fin Design
Friday 05/12 42
The Twinzer theory is used to power supersonic jets, and it also powered Martin Potter to his '89 World Title.
10 Foot 6: The Number Of The Beast
Monday 01/12 291
While researching the modern big wave gun, Anthony Pancia learns of magical figures and unlikely theories. Applied to foam and fibreglass they allow Shane Dorian, Albee Layer and others to paddle into the largest waves on Earth.