Blog | Jim Banks Surfboards

Choosing Your Twin Fin Update

********* As most of you probably already know, getting your fins right can mean the difference between your board going insane or not wo...

Rhino Laminating

We’re serious about what we do. And what we do is build the best possible surfboards we can. At the same time, we are constantly striving...

FLV Hit the Roads

The latest Hit the Roads are something else. The introduction of the FLV into the bottom contour about 18 months ago has proved to be a m...

Getting it Right... part 2

Like I've said before, getting it right is the never ending challenge of building surfboards. With so many factors, and the complexity of...

Choosing Your Twin Fin Set

As most of you probably already know, getting your fins right can mean the difference between your board going insane or not working for ...

Go the Magic Carpet or a MKV?

The Magic Carpet Or the MKV? The Magic Carpet or MKV? I love both boards equally and do swap them out constantly, they are very similar w...

Why our Twinnys are Easy to Surf

There is no doubt that our twin keel fishes are performance boards that can be pushed as hard as you want. But at the same time they are ...

Getting it Right

As primarily a custom surfboard designer and a shaper, the most important thing to me when I build someone's board is getting it right. W...

Indo Quivers

Indo Quivers It's that time of year... Indo season! And it's kicked in with a bang this year. We're currently getting back to back swells...

The New FLV Indo Rocket!

Creating a Full Length Vee version of the Indo Rocket has been quite a task. While the FLV dropped into the Hit Roads, Magic Carpet and S...

Summer Series Twin Keels

We've been putting both the new twin keel models for this summer series, the FLV Magic Carpet and the latest version of the MK series thr...

2018 Summer Series

Here's an intro to the 2018 Limited Edition Summer Series of boards. Three boards, one purpose... fun in summer waves!

Summer Series Sea Dart

Here's a brief intro from the shaping bay for the new 2018 Summer Series Limited Edition Sea Dart

Limited Edition MKV Shaping

Here's a brief intro from the shaping bay on the new 2018 Summer Series Limited Edition MKV twin keel fish.

Surfing Uluwatu 1977

Here's some classic footage of surfing at Uluwatu during my first visit to Bali in 1977. Boards were 6'6 and 7'0" single fins.

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