Our 9" eco single fin uses approximately 70 plastic caps and our medium G5 fins use approximately 50 plastic caps in their fabrication.
Our eco surf fins are made from recycled bottle caps and other recycled materials to form a composite material which then goes into the moulding fabrication. The fins are eco friendly, and with our composites offer great performance.
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Our mission is to deliver high quality, durable products that reuse recycled materials. Our products will not only provide great utility for surfers, but have minimal environmental impact. #saynotoplastics
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Kookin' Around It's time to take surfing less seriously, that's why we've put together this fun little Ebook we've some of the main types of surfing personas around these days. You can download here for free, but we ask that if you reuse that you credit us with the work by tagging us @shakasurfstore or letting us know you will reuse. This is just meant as a little bit of fun, after all let's…
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Celebrate The End of Summer In Style Changing our daily habits can be tough, but now that many of us have emerged from lockdown and returning to a semblence of normality have we really changed on our buying/purchasing habits. Perhaps during lockdown you've made a commitment to become more of an eco conscious consumer, if you have we salute you. Or perhaps you've decided to ditch the car and just…
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Longboard Surfing - The Basics First of let's get a few definitions out of the way with. What classifies a longboard as a longboard and how does it differ from a shortboard? A longboard generally is a single fin surfboard with a large rounded nose, its length is typically between 9 and 12ft. A longboard differs from a shortboard, which generally has 3 or 4 fin placement, and is a lot shorter…
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We're stoked to be one of the official sponsors if this fantastic, dynamic surfing event. Here's the official PR blurb: South Africa – The upcoming Rip Curl E-Pro virtual surfing tournament has garnered so much attention that the event organisers have opened up a standalone women’s event. This South African virtual surfing event – part of the global Surf Web Series – is set to kick off on 1 August…
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So it's official, there's gonna be no surf events for the rest of 2020 as the WSL announced last week that due to COVID-19 they are cancelling remaining surf events. I'll be honest, I wasn't actually too disappointed with this news, I make no bones about it I have gone off watching the surf events put on by the WSL. I even wrote about why WSL events are not the superbowl. But, what I love about…
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It's hard not to act surprised when you hear the news of the latest shark attack. As surfers it's a risk we have to accept, we're always entering their territory. But there's always things we can do to minimise the risks such as wear known detterents for sharks. Now it's dubious just how effective some of the newer market technologies are against all kinds of aggresive sharks such as tigers, bulls…
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