Writer slash surfboard tester Shawn Tracht challenged eight shapers (between Santa Cruz and San Diego) to each design a board that went beyond the norm and toward the future, attempting to revolutionize accepted thought and help our crafts evolve to the next plateau. Crafting a mélange of surfboards by way of variegated theories and personal hypotheses, Bill “Stretch” Riedel, Paul Finley, Nick Cooper, Zephaniah Carrigg, Jeff Hull, Robert Weiner, Sean Mattison, and Josh Oldenburg stepped to task and got weird with it.