New Surfboard Types and Designs – Are They Really New? What’s the latest from legendary designer Tom Morey?

Creative innovators introduce new types and designs of surfboards all the time, but they rarely seem to be successful. Surfers in general don’t like change. Most surfers follow the best professional surfers and try to surf their boards, with little success in most cases. If the new type of surfboard is a little different, it is considered “not great”. Surfers will ask, who is doing it?

Most of the newer types and designs of surfboards are the shapes of the tail, nose and base of the surfboards. Some of the shapes of surfboard tails are: fish, swallow, thumb, bat, crescent, pumpkin, and pointy. Are these really new ways? At one time they were original, but now they really are not.

Many of the “new” boards surfed by the pros are designed specifically for them and the waves they will ride at the event. They are high performance surfboards designed for the best surfers in the world. Regular surfers are not able to surf them successfully. It would be like a golfer trying to hit a golf ball with Tiger Woods’ driver, very difficult and probably impossible.

However, there are some very good, new and innovative surfboard types and designs. One of the leading innovators in the surfing industry is Tom Morey, the inventor of the Morey Boogie. Morey has introduced many “new” types, designs and innovations of surfboards. He has always been known as a highly respected leader in surf product design, from fin boxes to fins, slip-resistant products known as Slipcheck and El Gripo, the WaterSkate surfboard, air-lubricated surfboards, his Swizzle longboard from smooth and hard performance with Afterburner. rear rails, “the ONE!” a combination of a skimboard, bodyboard, finless surfboard, and most recently their short board called the Heater. There are many more, but in this article I will mention only these few.

Many of Morey’s surfboard designs are his way of enhancing existing designs. Morey says, “I never set out to ‘invent’ something. Instead, I just keep my eyes and ears open and always motivated to ‘get it right’, apply the material, design or process that I find could work best.” His 1972 WaterSkate was a continuation of George Greenough’s concave kneeboard. Tom applied George’s concept to a standing board, increasing the thickness of the rails to equalize the volume and increasing what he calls “waveface bounce response time.” The concave platform made it possible for the rider’s feet to be better positioned. This new WATERSKATE design surfboard was a great success. It worked really well!

So what’s new in the 2013 version? Recently, it has improved its previous 1972 version of the WaterSkate by modifying the rear rails and adding the proven speed improvement and turning ability of its heater rails with its magical top-to-bottom cutting angle, a reverse of the rails it fitted. his Morey Boogie Board. The 2013 table comes in sizes from 5’6 “to 7’0”.

Another new surfboard design, innovated in the early 1990s, was Morey’s longboard, which he calls Swizzle. He is still making these boards, which come in lengths from 7’0 “to 10’0” and more. This is a custom fiberglass surfboard that features a shape with the tip of your Peck Penetrator, the body with wider areas in the chest and hip areas, the center section of the board is just inside parallel. Morey calls the shape parabolic. The rear rails feature Afterburner suction rails angled 45 degrees inward from top to bottom similar to a surfboard rail. Afterburners decrease the suction on the back of the surfboard, increasing the speed of paddling and running down the line of a wave. The rear rails of the vacuum cleaner catch the water and help move the surfboard when turning.

Morey has another innovative new surfboard designed as a mini-shortboard which he calls “the ONLY ONE!”. This board is a combination of a surfboard, skimboard and boogie board. The small board is 4 ‘6 “long with minimal rocker nose, Afterburner rear rails, a pointed tip and a squash tail, with a flat bottom. This little board is great for shore fun, but some some of the best surfers take it to bigger waves and ride it like a surfboard. There is a big exception to the ONE !, there are no fins on the board, so the rider can make turns in the face of the wave . Because there are no fins to cause drag, the board is fast. Another great feature of the board is that it is made of soft and friendly materials; an extremely slippery skin on the bottom and on the deck with rounded soft foam rails. of the foam boogie board The deck can be waxed or have traction pads added for Surfers think the board is a blast!

Morey’s latest new type and design of surfboards is a line of short boards that he calls Heater. The reason it is called Heater is because the rear rails are a reverse of the afterburner rear rail described in the previous paragraphs. This rail has a hard bottom edge and is angled up from the bottom at 45 degrees. The rail reduces drag and suction from the water flowing over the back 1/3 of the surfboard and gives the board a lot of bite and thrust from the lower hard edge when making a turn. The board also has more foam in the front 1/3 of the surfboard, which gives it more buoyancy and makes it possible to paddle the wave earlier. Another advantage of the extra foam makes it possible for the surfer to make sections that would not be possible to do on a thinner and smaller surfboard. The reduced suction and drag and added foam make the heater extremely fast, makes catching waves easier, and gives the surfer a sense of fun and success. Surfers of all skill levels like the heater.

In future articles, I will talk about other new types and designs of surfboards along with new surf products. Remember to stay in the water and surf life!