Australian surfer and shaper Neal Purchase Jr. has combined the best parts of a single-fin and a twin-fin in a new surfboard design he calls the Duo. Men's Journal Dec 5, 2019 2:51 AM EST ...

You will ride these boards because, a) they're at the apex of high-performance design and therefore, b) all those excuses we have for not landing our airs, for not making our fin throws, is erased.

In the 1980s Australian Simon Anderson’s three-fin surfboard design transformed high performance surfing, and more recently Australian-originated firms Fin Control Systems (FCS), Global Surf ...

Multi-fin surfboards did not gain popularity until 1970 with the release of the “twin-fin” design by both myself for Hobie Surfboards and Mike Eaton at Bing Surfboards.

They’ve been so into fin design, just surf design, all together. They’ve always drilled it into me — you just want to be peak performance all the times. You don’t even want to mess around.” ...

“Boost is changing the surfing experience the fin that gives you just enough of extra energy to push the limits of what is possible. A revolutionary combination of power, portability and design ...

Groveler fins from L to R: FCS II Reactor PC Carbon, True Ames Timmy Patterson Small, Futures P6 Legacy Series. CA: A groveler typically equals small, not so high-performance waves.

It's 25 years since the Thruster - a three-finned surfboard that represented the last breakthrough in fin design. Now the Australian-designed FCS H-2 is increasing board speed and manoeuvrability ...

2. An original Simon Anderson Thruster This design isn't the most difficult in the world to find, thanks to Simon Anderson's re-issue of his game-changing three-finned board from 1981.