
Catapulting and Compression
All surfers have fallen hard into water. When you impact water with speed, your body pauses on the water's surface for a second. Water...


Danger and Tragedy by Flat Bottoms with High Nose Rocker at High Speed
When a surfboard takes off it moves through three phases. Initially it pushes water in the displacement phase. Vessels must push water...


A Planing Hull is not Always the Fastest
Nose rocker is an important aspect of a surfboard, it keeps the board from diving under. The down side of nose rocker is that it creates...