The standard high-performance shortboard often gets slapped with the “finely tuned” label, a subtle implication that boards ...

Australian surfer and shaper Neal Purchase Jr. has combined the best parts of a single-fin and a twin-fin in a new surfboard design he calls the Duo. Neal Purchase Jr. (NPJ) is an Australian ...

While there’s no way to learn about fin configurations that compares with actually riding them, these are just some of the basics on surfboard fins. When looking at surfboard design and performance as ...

Anytime someone mentions the Hypto Krypto, I instantly picture Craig Anderson threading a monster drop-tube combo at big Kandui circa 2015. That was the height of the Hypto Krypto trend, when you ...

This started out to be a brief recap of my 60 years of surfing and how the sport, lifestyle and I evolved through the many changes. Last week we left off in 1968 in the middle of the “Shortboard ...

Retro twin fin master and four-time world champ Mark Richards, aka MR, is a legend. Even after a lifetime of surfing, he's still creating new models and pushing the boundaries in his shaping. In a ...

This article was originally published on March 18, 2020 H-fins have been a thing for FCS since they upped the ante some years ago — when they realised the system itself wasn’t enough, and fin design ...