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Surfboards

Surfboards
By Guy Motil

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This stunningly illustrated volume takes readers on a journey through the last 100 years of the search for the perfect board by surfers the world over."Surfboards" begins with a brief but knowledgeable and entertaining history of the sport and its equipment. It then goes on to explore the many different styles and types of surfboards, accompanied by stories and full-colour photographs that depict their design, creation, and use - from close-up details of the boards themselves to surfboards in action around the world and throughout history.This is an absolute must-have volume for any self respecting surfer and surfing fan.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #60378 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-12-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 232 pages

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From the Back Cover

Surfboards are not mere tools for wave-riding. To those passionate and dedicated about surfing, a board can also be a trusted talisman in perilous waters, a collectible work of sculptural art, or even a milestone in surfing history. Surfers, even top professionals, often describe a favorite board as "magic" and because surfboards have been mostly hand made by master craftsmen, a truly magic board is an object that can be hard to replicate or replace.
 
This comprehensive book - Surfboards - is about those magical objects that allow surfers to harness the natural power of an ocean wave to create a spectacular dance on water or to speed unscathed across a massive, life-threatening wall ten times overhead.
 
Through the surfboards featured in these pages, the history and evolution of the sport itself is traced from ancient Hawaii, where solid wood surfboards were revered and given spirit names, to today's technological age in which tried and tested designs are accurately reproduced through computers and composite aerospace materials.

About the Author

Guy Motil, internationally acclaimed photographer and publisher of Longboard Magazine, started surfing in 1962 at the age of 12 and surfboards have been part of his life ever since. He has surfed them, traveled the world with them, on occasion slept beside them, and more times than he should admit, he’s had to repair them. He has found each design to have a personality and temperament all its own. Even surfboards that appear remarkably similar can be remarkably dissimilar when ridden, and for at least the last 100 years or so (and probably much longer), surfers have been trying to make sense of it all. To date he has shot private collections (few public collections have existed) in all parts of the world from South Africa to Australia, from New York to Hawaii, and now has a photo collection of over 4,000 historically significant surfboards.



Customer Reviews

An Important, Insightful, and Introspective Book5
For those of us in love with the surfboard, Guy Motil's book is a treasure full of photographs and comments. Never before as such a complete timeline of the surfboard been documented. The movement from longboard to shortboard and back, and in between, is clearly marked and measured. Like photographs of waves and women, the photographs of surfboards are simply beautiful.

Good mix of photographs and history of the sport5
This book turned out to be, in my opinion, a good mix of photographs and history of the sport.
As Ben Marcus' and Drew Kampion's surfboards' books, i recommend Guy Motil's as a must have for those who would like to know a little more on the history of the sport and the evolution of the surfboard.

Surfboards5
Was disappointed the packaging allowed the book jacket to get crumbled but the book itself was fine. Surfboards is a great well illustrated book for the surfing lover.