History Behind Surfboards 

The surfboard was released to the public traced all the way back to 3000 B.C. But this “surfboard” was not intended to ride waves but used to catch fish and use more as a boat. But the fishers caught themself riding the waves into shore on this board and this is how the spark of surfboards came to be. 

1900-1920 surfing had arrived and even when it first arrived it came with compititon. The surf boards were made with leftover redwood transported by the mainlands for construction. George Freeth was spreading surfing from Hawaii to the U.S and is famous for cutting his 16 foot board in half. 

1930 - Tom Blake created the first hollow surfboard and this became very popular and was selling with a lot of companies. John Kelly and Fran Heath took the next big step with cutting off some of the board for the ridings to have more control while surfing. This was called the hot curl. 

1940 - Because of WW2 people had more materials to use when making the surfboard. Pete Petrson was really the first person to put these materials to work. He made the first hollow plastic surfboard. 

1980- 1990  - A redesign of the twin fin was designed and released. Laird Hamilton was doing some work to the towing boards making them shorter and heavier. Surfboard manufacturer made it able to have foamed boards in precise shaping. 

2000 - A larger foam board factory shut down and the prices on other markers grew because of this. More material is being put into factories like wood because of the new advances in society. As the surfboard disgns are expanding so are the surfers. More and more people are becoming interested and surfing is becoming a world wide sport.