Tiki Documentary: Dany Bruch and the Black Box

Meet Dany Bruch, the man behind the revolutionary Black Box 87.

In this short documentary, Daniel Bruch explains how he came up with the concept for the Black Box and discusses his career on and off the PWA World Tour as well as his involvement with Starboard Windsurfing R&D.

Meet Tasada You – Starboard Brand Manager and designer

Meet Starboard Windsurfing’s Brand Manager Tiesda You, in this series of Starboard’s Tiki Documentary. Starboard has even called him, the “Golden Child”. Tiesda has been designing boards since 2000, including the famous Carve, the first Kodes and now the Atom IQ!

Tiki Documentary: Nimit

Meet the shaper at Starboard.  Shaping since 1988 and part of the Tiki family since 1997, Nimit Promjan has produced countless number of boards of all shapes and sizes, including your favorite Starboard. Meet our first shaper.

Tiki Documentary 8 of 8 – Champions video

An awesome video, and final part of the Tiki Documentary Series. Starboard take s a look at their Champions, Past and Present, including Kevin Pritchard, Scott McKercher, Philip Koester, and and Iballa Moreno. The riders shares there stories of competiting, and the road to gaining titles, mixed with amazing action shots from some of the best riders in the World.

Tiki Documentary 7 of 8 – Carbon or Wood? Custom or Production?

Developed by Jean Louis Colmas in 1984, Wood Technology became Starboard’s trademark construction since 1995. A sheet of 0.6 mm Australian plantation pine wood forms the full outer shell of the board. Wood’s unique properties are its natural rigidity, superior resistance to compression and higher energy absorption compared to carbon. The advantages of wood in a board are rigid flex and more impact resistant than Carbon. In choppy conditions a Wood board is maybe more forgiving than a carbon construction. The Carbon construction has advantages on the light wind racing models or bigger wave boards where the key criteria are acceleration efficiency, weight and maximum hull stiffness (slalom, speed). Starboard offers the wood technology on almost all models (wave boards, free ride boards and Slalom boards). During the last years also other companies, like JP, Fanatic or Tabou have discovered the wood technology but offer it only for selected models and mostly for beginners or advanced sailors.

Tiki Documentary WindSUP

Another Tiki documentary from Starboard, this time the ever growing segment of WindSUP.

Tiki Documentary – James Hooper and the NuEvo

Starboard brings us a new Tiki Documentary, this time featuring the James Hooper and the NuEvo. Not our favorite, to much talking head instead of action.