Steve Walden - "The Father of the Modern Longboard" - began shaping boards for himself and his friends in California in 1965 and now has what is probably the most advanced and high-performance longboard on the market. 1972 Walden moved to the North Shore of Oahu, where he made a name for himself as a prolific longboard shaper. While the rest of the surfing world was fixated on short single-fins, Walden continued to improve his longboard designs. When Walden returned to California in the early 1980s, he introduced his extremely successful Magic Model and has been at the top of the longboard market ever since.
