Coming up through the ranks with Mark Richards and Rabbit was another Australian, Simon Anderson. He had a reputation by the mid seventies as one of Australia’s foremost power surfers, but despite winning events, he struggled to keep pace with Richards and co as surfing became dominated by two fin boards.

A shaper himself, he spotted a friends experiments with three fins and decided to refine and develop his own designs eventually creating what we now know as the Thruster. This single shift in surfboard fin layout changed surfing forever, and whilst twins, singles, four fins and more exist, the thruster is the go-to fin setup and Simon Anderson is the pioneer of the most important aspect of surfboard design ever.