The highest strength to weight ratio of any wood, hollow-chambered balsa cores are being shaped into the most progressive modern designs available. With unmatched strength the highly shock-absorbant boards make for clean steady rides in almost any conditions. With performance models weighing in around average foam cores, balsa in the twenty-first century is a ripping new phenomena that would make the tradition of its elders proud.

As Skip once noted on a sunny day down Ecuador, “the ocean exists without any constant, it is a fluid and always changing arena, if a surfer wants anything constant it’s a board he can trust.” If our boards are anything, they are boards you can trust. Lasting for decades they are bound to become one of the most constant things in your life, while your partners may come and go, the car gets sold, the kids and pets get old, that’s still the same classic your paddling out on.