Everything you need to know about The History of Surfboard Construction In under :60 seconds

3000 B.C.: Peruvian fishermen create the first known surfing vessel, dubbed the “caballito,” crafting it out of bundled reeds.
1000 B.C.: Ancient Hawaiians invent the first standup surfboards. They created two basic designs, the alaia, ranging from 7’ to 12’, and the longer olo.  Both designs were finless, had a rounded nose and square tail, and were shaped from a solid piece of koa or wiliwili tree.
Early 1900’s: Surfboard materials transition away from native Hawaiian trees koa and wiliwili to balsa and redwood.
1909: First synthetic resin patented.
1929: Legendary surf pioneer Tom Blake creates his first hollow “cigar box” surfboard. The “cigar box” boards decreased the average weight of surfboards from an unwieldy 100 pounds to a more manageable 40.
1935: Tom Blake uses a fin to stabilize his surfboard.
1937: The world’s first big wave board is invented in Hawaii, the hot curl surfboard. The hot curl was finless, but it had a narrowed pin tail, which allowed the board to better grip the wave.
1946: Southern Californian Bob Simmons is the first to use fiberglass to coat his surfboard. The new material catches on quickly, and soon all surfboards are being wrapped with fiberglass cloth and glassed.
1947: Bob Simmons wraps a Styrofoam core in plywood to make the first surfboard to ever utilize foam. By the late 1950’s virtually all surfboards are made with polyurethane foam.
Early 1960’s: Diwain Surfboards, out of Huntington Beach, produces the world’s first molded surfboard, or “popout.”
Early 1980’s: Epoxy is pioneered independently as a new resin by Greg Loehr, Clyde Beatty and John Bradbury.
2007: Bio-foam is premiered as a more environmentally friendly alternative to conventional foam.