What We Do
Hello fellow surfers and soon-to-be surfers!
We would like to officially welcome you to SurfScience.com: your new home for learning about all things surfing, and how you can get better while having a lot more fun.
Where to start? SurfScience.com started when we began experimenting with new surfboards. We soon realized that there was a lot we didn’t know about surfboards. What type of rails worked best to surf fast pitchy waves? Which fins would give us more drive when surfing soft mushy waves? How exactly does flex improve your surfing performance? As we talked to guys at the surf shops and read information online, our list of questions just grew longer and longer and it seemed that we had to go to 30 different places just to get the minimum amount of information. Amazingly, there wasn’t a website we could surf to and find this stuff out.
Surely, we weren’t the only people in this situation! There must be other beginners and intermediate-level surfers out there trying to get to the next level and looking for a central source of non-biased surfboard info to help get there. The surfboard! That’s where it all started. The board is the most important part of the sport. Yet it seems to have the least amount of online resources devoted to it-and it’s difficult to figure out for yourself, or get consistent answers from people who aren’t trying to sell you anything.
We needed one place with loads of information and, more importantly, real feedback from real surfers and real experiences.
Done! SurfScience.com. LEARN MORE, SURF BETTER.
Who We Are
Your friendly neighborhood surf scientists are three surfers who reside in Orange County, California. We’re not surf industry reps, we’re not gnarly old guys, and we’re definitely not sponsored surfers or budding professionals gunning for the WQS.
That being said, we’d like to think we look a lot like you. We are your average surfers, fighting to squeeze in a session in the morning or after work. We’re there in the crowded line up on the weekends and we’re there when a new swell shows up on the forecast and the dreaming sets in. We love surfing and we are passionate about getting better and having more fun.
And, like you, our surfboards are essential to it all. But with so many boards out there, how can we know if we’re riding the right one? Where on the internet can you get information that takes into account your local breaks, your height and weight, your personal level of ability? What about new advances in surfboard material?
You can find all that, and a lot more, right here. SurfScience.com is the one-stop website to learn everything you need to know to rip to the fullest extent of your abilities.
Like scientists, we set out to learn everything we could about board design. We’ve been researching, surveying, experimenting, interviewing experts, and surfing everything we can get our hands on. Now it’s time for us to pass our knowledge along and give you the opportunity to share what you know with the rest of the global surf community, too.
SurfScience.com isn’t just a bunch of technical info, though. It’s a community, and we want you to join us. Answer some basic questions about your skills, and rate the boards you’ve used, and our system will keep track of what you prefer and how you surf so we can offer recommendations to help take your surfing skills to the next level.
So next time the swell goes flat, take a second to test the Board Match quiz, rate a few boards, or just surf our website’s many articles and advice columns on all things surfboard related. This is just the beginning: We’ll keep building out this resource and we look forward to having you along for the ride. We hope it helps you to have fun and to get the most out of your sessions. Enjoy!
Sincere Regards,
The Scientists