Literature News

Dan Webber launches 'Zen and the Art of Surfboard Design'

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 1 June, 2009 : - - Zen and the Art of Surfboard Design is an academic paper that invokes the connection between surfboard design and surfing to understand spatial perception. It is the work of Dan Webber, one of the six Webber brothers, an Australian family of surfers, sculptors, film makers and designers, who have been making surfboards since the 1970s.

Dan uses neuro-linguistics to draw an analogy between speech and surfing; the movements of the tongue likened to riding a surfboard. Just as the components of language are assembled to generate speech sounds in the vocal tract, the components of surfboard design are assembled to generate manoeuvres on the wave.

Zen and the Art of Surfboard Design is published by the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology.

- Advertisement -

What's your take on this?
Post your thoughts: SV Forum

New Survey: Map Surfing’s future 

More Australasian Surfing News available here
Check the latest Australasian Surf Reports and Forecasts

New! B2B News ASBE-Surf   |  Receive News-Alerts

Dan Webber

Literature - Surfersvillage