I'm reading this book by Peter L. Dixon (first Print April 1966) called "The Complete Book of Surfing". In it, there is a chapter called "Miniboards"...talk about disruptive technology:

"The death of long boards and the beginning of surfing's New Era has created a major revolution in surfing."

If Peter Dixon were alive today, wonder what he would be thiking?

^he is, you can ask him...

here's an interview from a couple years back when he published his last book

http://www.123ocean.com/en/watersports/boardsports/peter-dixon-80-years-in-the-ocean/

 

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I had one of the first "Mini-Longboards".
It was an 8'6" Hansen Mike Doyle Model Pin Tail V-Bottom.

I recall it being so radical for the time and we all began surfing a lil more rail to rail and a lil more top to bottom on those, but most of us still were in the LB habit of forward trim and cross-stepping.

Next big thing in the revolution for me was down sizing to a 7'0".
Then Twin Fins the next year changed everything.
My smallest was a 5'0" Sunshine shaped by Bill Frierson and glassed by Fred Grosskreutz.

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Thx for the Linc!

Dixon wrote another book. "Men Who Ride Mountains" published May 1969

Currently showing at the Florida Surf Museum. go see the real thing
http://www.floridasurfmuseum.o...d-evolution-revolution

Which Canaveral Pier Easter Contest was it, '66, '67, , , , that David Nuuhiwa showed up with that white "fish" thing that was shorter than up to his chin?

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That's a little early. It was more likely '69 or '70. Dick Catri would know. Nuuwiva stayed at his house when he came to town.

Might have been '68, could have been '69. It was "before" short boards, and stemmed from the length restrictions at Huntington Beach pier.

Used to hang and drink with David at Mac's 5th Ave. He was into my neighborhood girl friend's girl friend, , , ,.

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Found this- Nuuhiwa the fish years https://vimeo.com/44836637
Pretty futuristic stuff.

At the '69 Smirnoff pro am in Santa Cruz, Nuuhiwa, Dobson were riding Hynsons downrailers. The week before Christmas in '67 I was at Rincon, Ca., McTavish and Bigler showed up from Oz with the first V-bottoms to be ridden on the US mainland. at the Smirnff, Corky, Doyle were riding Mini's, this is the time line

 

Thanks, Shapewright!

Yes, at the time the "minis" were just beginning to be seen. But, David had the board standing up on the pier and there was a crowd around him and the board; it was so short that we were not sure what it was! It was "surreal" to be standing there, looking "down" at the nose of a board!

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I have an exceptionally beat up old Hobie super mini 8'6.

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