Burger, Bert

Industrious surfboard shaper from Western Australia; best known as a cofounder of Firewire Surfboards with fellow Aussie Nev Hyman. Burger was born (1968) in Perth, pushed into waves by various uncles as a toddler, and started riding on his own at age four. At seven the precocious Burger began fooling around with shaping by cutting channels into the bottom of his Styrofoam "coolite" board; at 13 h...