"Give a kid a cardboard box and he'll have hours of fun." Kieren Giffen shows the same thing applies to grown up kids as he empties the recycling bin and makes a surfboard.

Visit the bakery as often as possible, sleep in a weird motel, talk about babes and psych on your favourite surfers.

"You might as well be riding a unicycle up there," says Matt Warshaw of twin fins and their propensity to spin out. However, modern design and construction has curbed the chaos without losing that footloose feeling.

Matt Biolos, who so often plays cupid between surfer and surfboard, explains the mysteries of fibreglass desire.