Assessing your skill level is another key factor when choosing a surfboard. Your proficiency on the waves, from carving to maneuvering, should align with the board's design.

His surfing, perhaps best showcased in the classic 2015 surf film Psychic Migrations, is both traditional and futuristic, and like his boards, truly unique.

Fifty years ago, one of the world’s best traditional surfboard makers signed a deal to build and sell one of surfing’s most radical and least understood surfboard designs. Incredibly, both ...