Cannibal Surf in media

Discover the latest magazine features, articles, and press highlights that showcase Cannibal Surf’s impact on surf culture.

Surfboard Buyer´s Guide:

Transworld Surf:

Surfer Magazine 2014 Surfboard Buyer’s Guide

Tommy Hilfiger: Surf Shack In Store Art Fund Collaboration

Cannibal/ CoreVac Surf recently collaborated with Tommy Hilfiger to create custom designed surf boards for their store front galleries around the world. Link to CoreVac Hilfiger board pics: CoreVac Hilfiger board Link to Hilfiger FB event pics: Hilfiger FB event pics      

Vero Beach’s Portfolio Magazine:

A.J. FINAN IN A VACUUM

dscn0362A.J. Finan is a 30-something shaper from Melbourne Beach, Florida. With twenty years of shaping experience to his name, and an engineering degree from the University Of Central Florida, A.J. and his label Cannibal surfboards have become a solid fixture in surf shops up and down the Eastern seaboard. In certain situations though, shaping can lend itself to a monotonous, industrial-like process—mowing foam to fill orders and nothing more.

In 2006 A.J. began tinkering with new board constructions, as any curious mind constantly on hyper-drive tends to do. Most summers he loads a U-Haul trailer packed with boards and makes the trek up I-95, stopping at every one of his accounts. On this particular trip, when he arrived at the Surf Shack in Ship Bottom, New Jersey he emerged from humidity appearing to be hopped up on even more Red Bulls than normal, going a mile-a-minute about “vacuum bagging.”

He had found a new vigor for shaping, as what began with one vacuum bagged board (actually a half carbon fiber, half polyester concoction), four years later has transformed his entire production over to vacuum bagging and away from polyurethane. The creation of his new vacuum bagging company, CoreVac, has moved surfboards to what he believes are the fastest, most durable, lightest, and efficient quite possibly on this Earth by creating a controllable environment within the bag to get the most out of higher-grade materials. We attempted to get into the mind behind these potential game changers.—Ryan Brower

Read the rest of the story: http://surf.transworld.net/1000100766/gear-guide-articles/aj-finan-in-a-vacuum/

Konduit Kite Pro Review

BOARD REVIEW: Konduit Kite Pro Model

RIDER: BILLY ACKERMAN, CoreVac Team Rider, JAX BEACH FL

MODEL: 5’10” Konduit KITE PRO

Cannibal is now offering a Strapless Kitesurf construction in select models. The crew at Ocean Extreme Sports has been thoroughly testing these boards to fine tune the perfect strapless kitesurf weapon! My personal board of choice is the 5’10” Konduit Kite PRO. The Konduit Kite PRO edition is the perfect mixture between a groveler and a standard shortboard shape.  From light wind and small surf to overhead nuking conditions this board will take anything you have to throw its way! Featuring a slightly wider outline than your traditional shortboard, subtle single concave and channels throughout the tail, give the Konduit Kite surfboard a very fast stable feeling that provides smooth rail to rail transitions and quick pivot in the pocket. Comes with the new FCS2 fin boxes for a strong box that can match the Cannibal build! CoreVac technology is the lightest and toughest construction I have ever used. For our new Konduit kite PRO model we are adding fiberglass layers where needed yet still keeping the boards as light possible. On the Pro model we are adding a 2in carbon strip top and bottom to withstand heavy landings and aggressive riders. This construction can hands-down take a serious beating, from hitting the board with your spreader bar to stomping your heals into the deck, Cannibal’s built to withstand the beating kitesurfing has to offer with the performance and weight of most standard high-performance surfboards.  Come check them out, and even take one out for a demo, at Ocean Extreme Sports in St. Augustine today!