Simon Anderson With An Original 1980′s Energy Thruster at Akwa


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Name of baptism - thruster. The new design's title aimed to describe the tri-fin's racy feel and the fact that it added thrust to the surfboard's turning capabilities. Anderson embarked on a missionary journey to convince the surfing world that the three-fin setup was better than the established twin-fin.


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The creative and cutting-edge personality of Simon Anderson brought us the thruster surfboard. Equal-size fins and a balance between maneuverability, stability, and drive were the ingredients that Anderson used to revolutionize contemporary surfing. The thruster is still the industry standard today.


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Simon Anderson Surfboards - Australian surfboard design Beautifully crafted high performance surfboards with exceptional attention to detail. BOARD VIDEOS 8,197,342 Number of 3-fin Thrusters built since 1980 around the globe 18,836 Number of times the "f-word" was blurted out in disgust by a sander in the manufacturing process of a 3-fin Thruster


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Interview by Glenn Sakamoto. Malcolm Campbell is a legendary shaper/surfer who, together with his brother Duncan, created the first functional three fin surfboard - 10 years before Simon Anderson's Thruster design. The Campbell Brothers, part of the emerging Shortboard Revolution ignited by the Australians, conspired together in their.


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A large, deceptively casual power surfer, Simon Anderson achieved high renown in both competition and sheer performance through the early days of pro surfing. Like many pros of the day, he also learned the craft of board shaping and design, thinking it might be useful as a career backup.


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Simon Anderson (born 7 July 1954) is an Australian competitive surfer, surfboard shaper, and writer. He is credited with the 1980 invention of a three-fin surfboard design, called the "thruster". [1] Early life Anderson grew up in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney with three brothers. [2]


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Description Generous nose and tail area with rounded square tail, vee deck to low boxy rail, deep single concave throughout, low to mid nose entry with slight flip towards the tip, fins moved slightly forward. Medium tail rocker. History Developed with team riders as a competition model to maximise speed, carve and aerial potential. Performance


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1915. Virtually all boards have a blunt nose, a squared-off tail, and a flat deck. 1915. The average surfboard is 9′ long, 22″ wide, and weighs 45 pounds. 1919. Surfboard construction is for the most part still a do-it-yourself project. 1919. Surfboards are finless, as they were in ancient times. Redwood Surfboards.


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Conceived in October 1980 after an encounter with fellow-shaper Frank Williams, Australian Simon Anderson created the Thruster in the beginning of 1981 by squaring-off the tail and adding a third/central fin to what was essentially a twin-fin surfboard.


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Simon Anderson Surfboards. Simon Anderson revolutionized surfing in 1981 with the invention of the Thruster surfboard. Since then, his surfboards have influenced countless shapers and riders worldwide. With a wide variety of boards and decades of experience, Simon Anderson Surfboards remains at the top echelon of the industry.


Simon Anderson With An Original 1980′s Energy Thruster at Akwa

About Contact Terms. Lantern-jawed Australian surfer/board designer from Narrabeen, New South Wales; world-ranked #3 in 1977, and the inventor, three years later, of the tri-fin surfboard design. "With that one startling innovation," surf journalist Sam George later wrote, "Simon reshaped the surfing style of an entire generation—and the next.


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A large, deceptively casual power surfer, Simon Anderson achieved high renown in both competition and sheer performance through the early days of pro surfing. Skip to content. 02-05JAN INVENTORY, ORDERS DELAYED. Simon Anderson Surfboard Mollusc from $787.00 Round tail wide semi roundish nose low soft but more volume rail, medium single to.


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Simon Anderson Surfboard models available for Custom Order - Nomad, DTS, T&T, Three Peat, Fusion, Spudnick, Spudster, Early Bird, Big S, XFC, SXE3, Alley Grom.


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1981 Simon Anderson Thruster 3 Energy Surfboards In effect Anderson's innovation gave surfboards a versatility they had never previously had - thanks to the central fin you had the power and torque of a single fin with the looseness and performance of a twin-fin.


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Anderson, Simon (1954 - ) Anderson, Simon. Lantern-jawed Australian surfer/board designer from Narrabeen, New South Wales; world-ranked #3 in 1977, and the inventor, three years later, of the tri-fin surfboard design. "With that one startling innovation," surf journalist Sam George later wrote, "Simon reshaped the surfing style of an entire.


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Simon Anderson Surfboards Beautifully crafted high performance surfboards with exceptional attention to detail. BOARD VIDEOS 8,197,342 Number of 3-fin Thrusters built since 1980 around the globe 18,836 Number of times the "f-word" was blurted out in disgust by a sander in the manufacturing process of a 3-fin Thruster 38