sting, stinger
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(VIDEO) The Sting
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Ben Aipa (left) and Buttons Kaluhiokalani with stings, 1976
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Ben Aipa with sting surfboard, 1975
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Sting rider Dane Kealoha, 1976. Photo: Chris Gardner
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Sting rider Larry Bertlemann, 1975. Photo: Jeff Divine
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Joey Buran with sting, 1977
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See Also
History of Surfing
Above the Roar
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High performance surfboard design, invented in 1974 by Hawaiian surfer Ben Aipa. The stinger's main feature was a bifurcated outline; two-thirds of the way from the nose, the rails abruptly cut in about one inch toward the board's center strip, then continued down to the tail. "What the stinger does," proponent Mike Purpus wrote in 1977, "is allow an extremely active and expressive form of small-wave shredding."
The sting (Aipa's original name for the design; it immediately became better kno...