Hydroflex and 3D glassing
Wednesday 08/07 43
More strength, no delamination, better flex. Hydroflex make some big claims with their new construction technique. Swellnet speaks to their CEO about 3D glassing.
Design Outline
Smoking guns: Who shaped what during WA's hell swell
Thursday 02/07 52
“Just watching guys riding waves like that on your boards…it’s validation of all the work you’ve put in over the years.” - Marty Littlewood.
Now that the dust has settled on WA's hell swell, Swellnet chats to the blokes who mowed the foam on the boards that mattered.
Mick Mackie on shaping history
Tuesday 30/06 28
While many modern shapers tinker with tiny increments, Mick Mackie refines whole ideas. Here he chats to Swellnet about the ghosts of surfing's past and many other things.
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.
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.