Sunshine Coast surf identity Tom Wegener, of Cooroy, was named a design excellence winner (sport and leisure) for his finless board at the Good Design Australia-hosted awards in Melbourne. His entry, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
He's in his Cooroy workshop with a healed body and a razor-sharp mind always stepping ahead of convention to hand-craft the perfect "green” surfboard. The former Californian surfer, pictured, did his ...
Who is Ariel “Krooky” Browne? Maybe a better question is, why is Ari “Krooky” Browne? Or what? Or even, when? The 33-year-old Byron Bay-based wizard-sprite has quietly occupied a narrow, niche groove ...
For years, the act of filming a surf movie has existed as a formulaic enterprise: record professional surfers in the world’s most coveted surfing lineups, add up-tempo soundtrack, maybe splice in some ...