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“It’s the most user-friendly pure performance shortboard I’ve ever worked on,”

What a weekend, what an event. Congratulations! To Team World, Bianca Buitentag, Paige Hareb, Michel Bourez and Kanoa Igarashi, led by Jordy Smith as team captain.

The Slater Designs Gamma is the mind of an 11x World Champion distilled into one shape, built in two different Firewire proprietary techs.

Discover Kelly Slater's thoughts on both the Helium and LFT Gamma in this video shot at the Surf Ranch.

Photo: Todd Glaser

Presenting the next evolution of Tomo's highly engineered Modern Planing Hulls for Slater Designs.

"... perhaps more importantly, he (Kelly Slater) is surfing an Ecoboard, as certified by Sustainable Surf... there's a lot of myths out there as to what an Ecoboard is, and what it's capable of doing..." – Mark Price, CEO, Firewire Surfboards

Photo © Firewire Surfboards

The SBIA annual awards, which celebrate the high achievers of Australia’s multi-million dollar surf industry, attracted 200 retailers and brand representatives from across the country to the Crowne Plaza in Coogee, Sydney...

Photo © Firewire Surfboards

Established in 2003, the SIMA Awards is the only awards program that gives SIMA members and surf specialty retailers the opportunity to recognise fellow surf industry companies for their outstanding contributions to the surf industry.

"Once it hits the lip it just accelerates, so its good for blasting big turns... An amazing board for doing your biggest, most progressive turn or air." — Clay Marzo

"The major thing I noticed about this board and it’s tech was that it rode really smoothly and it linked turns together really well. It kept its speed, which was really nice. It felt like it had a good, continuous flex; it wasn’t a short, snappy twinge of a flex, it was a good, drawn-out, drivey flex..." — Taj Burrow

Slater Designs Sci-Fi explained (take two)...

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An indepth interview with Firewire CEO, Mark Price - Firewire Surboards, Slater Designs and more...

Kelly & Greg go bananas. Photo © Tracksmag

Where it’s at, where it’s going, and more...

The man himself gives us a rundown on the first 3 Slater Designs models built by Firewire Surfboards...