When you’re just starting out, choosing the best surfboard for beginners can feel overwhelming. There are tons of options, from longboards to shortboards to everything in between. But understanding the basic parts of a surfboard, and how each one affects performance, can help you find the right fit, especially if you’re riding small waves. Whether...

    If you’ve ever experimented with alternative shapes and fin setups, you know how drastically different one fin set up can ride verse another, even in the same board. For decades, surfers only rode single fins. The single fin itself went through several iterations before its modern variations. The first surfboards were finless and...