Nat Young, bottom turn, Honolua Bay – 1967

At Honolua Bay in late 1967, Nat and Bob McTavish ‘turned easily and repeatedly from trough to crest in a high-performance style that set a precedent for virtually all surfing that followed’. (Matt Warshaw – The Encyclopedia of Surfing) This was the beginnings of the shortboard revolution…the seeds of which had been sown the year before when Nat won the World Championship in San Diego.