Guides

Three short reads

What a board’s lines say before the numbers do, how a size is chosen, and how far to trust a figure. Every example is one of the 829 boards in the atlas, drawn from its own outline.

  1. How to read a boardLength and width, the wide point, tails, noses, rails, rocker, thickness and volume: what each line says before the numbers do, shown on boards from the atlas.
  2. How to pick a sizeThe rules of thumb behind the finder, sport by sport: litres or centimetres from your weight and level, and when a brand’s own chart should win.
  3. Where the numbers come fromListed, measured, estimated or a guess: how every figure on a board page was made, what the drawings and the 3D are built from, and what the atlas never does.

Also Worth a Read

Each sport

The disciplines: what moves the board, what the typical one looks like, and every board of the sport on one rack.

Where it came from

The history: from Hawaiian surfing to the parawing, how the board, the push and the foil kept coming apart and recombining.

In your hands

The studio: every board the atlas has in 3D, with the brand’s own photos, to turn, cut and set next to another.