For the last five years, Thomas Meyerhoffer has been tinkering with a new design for surfboards. The hourglass shape melds the stability of a longboard with the quickness of a shortboard. This makes the ride a little easier on the novice or recreational surfer.
Outside of surfing, Meyerhoffer has developed product for Apple, Porsche, and Sony Ericsson. (via DB).
More images and a video of the Meyerhoffer surfboards after the jump.
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Thomas, enough with the shameless self promotion and media blitz. Go back to designing widgets. This board has been done so many times by so many people. Ive seen this article on every freakin media outlet(except truly hardcore surf sites)You are whats wrong with the surfboard industry. GSI is a Chinese made, massed produced label and youre claiming to be some sort of hardcore shaper. GSI takes jobs away from hardcore craftsmen/surfers. Anyone can design boards these days. If I see you posing like some model with that thing one more time Im gonna puke. Oh and the only people that buy your gimmick or any pop out are kooks. And before you call yourself a shaper learn to rip first. Go back to Sweden Barney.
Not sure why the above commenter is so negative. As somebody who has surfed since age five, I welcome a fresh look at this sport. Designers have the ability to offer new perspectives. This is valuable even if the results don\’t work as planned.
I would encourage you to try the board yourself before you bash somebody for trying. You might be pleasantly surprised.
I know I was.
does anyone know of a shop in SoCal (San Diego No. County) that sells the TMS? I’ve been having a hard time trying to find a shop.
This idea has been “Revolutionized” at least three times already.
In ‘67 the first “Slotted Rail” longboard was created, this WAS revolutionary even though only 3 of them were ever created. But when the shortboard was invented, this revolutionary idea was useless, explanation below.
This design re-attempted throughout the 70s and 80s and the most functional version today is the swizzle, by “Y” formerly known as “Tom Morey”
Analyzing the 2+1 or optional thruster fin setup it is blatant to see that this has not been studied enough, the sidefins should be pointed at least at the tip of the board and moved in towards the stringer at least an inch. As a purist single-finner I feel should be removed entirely, but we’ll let him keep them for now.
The only innovations that Thomas has added are the double concave, drawn back tail and side-fins. If one studies fluid flow these are all good ideas in laminar flow however seeing as they are definitively at a location of turbulence the only benefit that is added is the lift during paddling from the double concave. The rest during riding creates immense turbulence and inefficiencies.
Thomas, notice how your board rides slower than a funboard of the same size? What a drag!
I understand your “discovery” of not having wide tails slide out, be buoyed out by a full-rail turn due to your pulled in tail, congrats! Keep up the new ideas, there’s a good one out there somewhere, but if you’re still trying to get a longboard to ride like a shortboard, then chop off 3′!
If you’re having trouble catching waves, then get a longboard and go to a longboard wave, they’re typically nicer about sharing waves, EVEN with a Swede!