Laird Hamilton is as tech savvy as surfers get. Here he looks at the shapes and materials that make boards great—what’s changed over the years, and what hasn’t:
With the advent of foam and fiberglass and now carbon fiber, surfboard design and technology have come a long way in the last 30 years. Some of the sports that benefited from that technology were obviously wind surfing and tow surfing.
For tow surfing, we changed the design of the boards. Normally in conventional prone surfing, to ride a giant wave you need a huge board. What we did was … Details
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