Mike Hynson rose to fame in surfing’s iconic film ‘The Endless Summer’. His stylish surfing helped him become one of San Diego’s top surfers and he become one of the first surfers to surf the Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu. A short time later, filmmaker Bruce Brown asked Hynson to star in his upcoming surf movie ‘The Endless Summer’. He went full time into shaping in 1959 and joined the Hobie Surfboard’s team in 1963. After filming ‘The Endless Summer’, he shaped for Gordon and Smith Surfboards and unveiled the triple stringer Hynson model, also known as the ‘red fin’ for its red skeg. He was also instrumental in creating the ‘tucked-under edge’ surfboard rail and invented the ‘DolFin’. The surfer turned shaper now shapes out of his studio in San Diego, California under his own label ‘Hynson and Company’ shaping “one-of-a-kind masterpieces” from balsa to foam.

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