Gods and goddesses who love the sea love surfing, but what do you know about surfboards? Today, I will take you to a basic theory course so that you can learn more about the design and various characteristics of surfboards. Let's take a look together.

Fish

The fishboard looks nice, but it's not easy to handle. The classic fishboard is a symbol of surfboard design.

In the late 1960s, surfer La Jolla and chipper Steve Liss pioneered the original fishing board design, and a few years later, Skip Fry, a chipper from Coastal, California, USA, developed the design. Traditionally, a fishboard never exceeds 6 feet in length. It is characterized by a short, thick, curved board shape, equipped with two large keeled rudders and a large dovetail. Fish boards were originally designed for riding steep hollow waves in the kneeling position, but boards are now often ridden standing up and are commonly used for beach waves as well as faster, brittle top and reef waves.

Longboard

All surfboards until the late 1960s were longboards. The longboard is very suitable for chasing waves, and its design is distinguished by personality and smooth controls.

The most authentic long version is over 9" long, with a single handlebar over 9" long and a semi-circular hem. However, in modern designs, the combination of rudder and edge design is very diverse. The reason longboards are popular all year round is because of their excellent buoyancy and stability. The main reason for this is that longboards were the medium in which surfing first flourished in the 1950s, and they are best suited to the soft, slow waves of California.

The Thruster Short Board

A three-piece surfboard with rudder allows the surfer to dive deeper into the wave tube, make better turns and cross the ridge for air movement.

A short board with three handlebars is a surfboard with three handlebars of the same size arranged in a triangle. The tail rudder is located closer to the center of the surfboard's tail, while the two front rudders are located closer to the edge of the board. This basic surfboard configuration has been the preferred choice of all professional surfers for over two decades, and is therefore the configuration of almost all shortboards today.

SUP

The paddle board, or SUP, a surf tool for Hawaiian surfers in the early 1990s, has been reinvented in modern times and is relatively new to the coast.

SUP boards are typically 10" to 14" long, 27" wide, and 4" thick. This type of surfboard is ridden in a parallel standing position and uses a long wooden (or plastic, carbon fiber) paddle to propel itself through the water.

Boogie Board

Boogie boarding is often ridiculed and deceived by stand-up surfers, but bodyboarding is by far the most popular form of surfing in the world.

The first modern bodyboard, designed by Californian Tom Morey, was originally a short, wide piece of colored foam. Cheap, easy to make and suitable for kids. Introduced in 1973, the Morey Boogie Board became an instant hit and was soon available worldwide, making it the first wave of surfing for most people.

Pistol

A gunboard is a surfboard designed for paddling large waves, the basic form of which has changed only slightly over the past forty years.

Like a javelin, the gunplate gains and maintains forward strike speed to catch up with fast moving masses, then move fast enough to outrun the fearsome ridge. In addition to being longer than a regular surfboard, the gunboard also has a more pronounced arc, especially around the front of the board. Most boards haveThe weapon has a "retracted" tip that allows the surfer to securely hook into a wall of fast moving waves at an oblique angle.

Spoon

George Greenoff's radical design paved the way for the short board.

Grenow's original 1965 spinner, called the Velo, weighed only 6 pounds and had a rudder tail and center section made from layers of fiberglass with no inner core. Part of the nose lip and a thin core of polyurethane foam around the semicircle provide only a small amount of buoyancy. Although it is extremely difficult to go out to sea on a lure, she expanded the possibilities of surfing by allowing Greenoff to make continuous and frequent turns from top to bottom.

Displacement hull

The medium length surfboard designed by Greg Liddle is the culmination of fifty years of surfboard development.

The seven to eight inch surfboard, easy to use for surfers, is an offshoot of the Californian shortboard revolution centered on Malibu from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. Greg Liddle is the central figure in this incident. After witnessing Nat Young drive a short, fat single handlebar called "Keio" in 1967, he began an experimental period. Forty years later, the result is a fairly well designed and mature surfboard that uses nearly every surfboard design element of the last fifty years in terms of edge profile, thickness, basic shape and ride characteristics.