Australians will try anything at least twice.  One of their recent developments, the FireWire design, is starting to hit the market. 

FireWire combines epoxy resin, a parabolic stringer and  vacuum sandwich construction to form a surfboard that is inordinately light and durable.  I watched Bird (down at the SouthCoast Surf Shop in Pacific Beach) set a FireWire board on the ground upside-down and then jump up and down on it (without so much as cracking it).

Surfing Magazine has a short interview with surfboard innovator, Nev Hyman, discussing the FireWire concept.  Apparently, Nev really likes to showcase FireWire’s durability by jumping up and down on the boards.  As cool as that is, surfboards aren’t necessarily intended for us to jump up and down on them in parking lots.  It’ll be interesting to see how these new-fangled sticks perform out in the surf.