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Surfing – New Surfboard Design Faces Uphill Battle in SF

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San Francisco’s lust for design innovation stops with its surfers.

That’s unfortunate since Thomas Meyerhoffer, a San Francisco-area surfer and inventor, has designed a surfboard that has so radically reshaped longboarding, a month after it hit the market in March it’s already changed at least one man’s life.

“Nothing has changed the game like my 8-foot Meyer,” 35-year surf veteran Tom Hansen of Florida wrote in an email to the inventor. When Meyerhoffer wondered if the surfer wasn’t teasing his pear-shaped invention, which had already drawn heckles during tests at his home breaks — Hansen sent a follow-up email with two photos of his 30 boards made by top shapers, which he says are all “going bye bye”.

Now, Hansen wrote, “I rip like a kid.”  …  Details

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