CJ Nelson Designs Surfboards

CJ Nelson is a surfer, surfboard shaper and adventurer who enjoys what looks like a seriously enviable lifestyle! CJ Nelson designs surfboards represent some of the most exciting boards to surf as well as cutting edge designs and technology. CJ is know as a longboarder primarily but he can surf anything, his amazing surfing has taken him all over the world both competing and surfing.

CJ’s life is about advancement and development and he’s applied this to his surfing and the boards he rides. This philosophy has driven him to expand his surfing from what was once an almost singular focus on nose riding and serious traditional surfing to riding all kinds of boards with his primary focus on function and fun. In addition to the variety and ability to take on more varied conditions, mixing it up has made him a better and he says a much happier surfer as a whole.

The practical side of this has been CJ’s move forward with the incredible Thunderbolt Technologies surfboard construction. A stringerless EPS epoxy blank is laid up with A.V.T carbon strips which give the board its flex pattern, after that its then laminated and ready to surf. This Thunderbolt tech stores the energy generated through surfing and then releases the stored energy through the board and fin to give an amazingly fast and responsive surf, once you tried this tech there is no going back. Firewire surfboards like it so much they bought the company. CJ Nelsons range of boards in the Thunderbolt tech includes all his best shapes, the Parallax, Neo Classic, Sprout, Colapintail, and Outlier, you can bet your bottom dollar there will be more to follow.