Skindog Surfboards

Skindog surfboards is a name synonymous with longboards, and longboarding all fronted by Ben Skinner probably the UKs most successful competitive surfer. Ben is that rare entity - a shaper who can surf his own boards to an incredibly high standard and then use that experience to build better and better boards for his customers.

Ben’s desire to push the limits in terms of performance and durability of his boards lead him to start working with Thunderbolt surfboard technology. Ben Skinner knows how to make surfboards, no question about that so his focus moved towards how the components of the board could work with his designs, the meet with Tokyo based Thunderbolt technologies was a light bulb moment and the new generation of boards from Skinner in this tech are he feels the best he’s ever bought to market.

Most board builders have been looking how to create epoxy based boards to benefit from the lighter weight, added durability, improved performance and the longevity of performance that this brings, for Ben Skinner the Thunderbolt tech is what works best in longboards and having surfed the boards in this tech over a long period of time his mind was made up. The production process leaves nothing to chance, every aspect of the build is meticulously observed to make sure the quality of the boards is like nothing ever seen before. A stringerless EPS epoxy blank is laid up with AVT carbon strips which give it its flex pattern, its then laminated and is good to go. This tech stores the energy generated and then releases the stored energy through the board and fin to give a fast and highly responsive surf, anyone who has tried it agrees it’s like nothing else on the market, Firewire surfboards agreed so much they bought the company. Skindog’s Thunderbolt range includes his favourite signature models, the Smoothie, Blender, Wrangler and the Peacemaker which is set to become his most popular model yet.