Plan to make surfboards safer

By Lisa Wachsmuth
Updated September 1 2012 - 12:20pm, first published 4:07am
Today’s generation of surfers are suffering more ankle, knee and facial injuries because boards are more manoeuvrable, according to researchers.
Today’s generation of surfers are suffering more ankle, knee and facial injuries because boards are more manoeuvrable, according to researchers.

Only a surfer knows the feeling - of getting sliced by a fin or whacked in the face by the nose of their board.

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