Corky Carroll: When shorter got popular and the great “v-bottom” disaster

Yes kids, today is going to be one of my ventures back through time and space to the beginning of what has been called “the shortboard revolution.”
This joyful period began in roughly late 1966, and the bulk of the “evolving” took place through the early 1970s before it tapered off and became more of a general consistent slow progress of “tweaking,” leading up to today’s high-flying, speed surf machines.
One of the great stories from that period was the