From long to short: The three dudes behind the shortboard revolution

What happens when surfing collides with bigger-than-life personalities, a bit of geopolitical drama, rushed board design, industry panic, and a learning curve that scares people out of the water? You get the shortboard revolution.

In this episode, we meet George Greenough, Bob McTavish, and Nat Young — the innovators, rebels, and occasionally questionable characters who took surfing from logs to lightning-fast shortboards in just a few years. We’ll talk radical design changes, the 1966 World Championships controversy, “plastic machines,” mini guns, and why the sport’s biggest shake-up also caused a drop in the number of surfers.