In 2002 Norden recruited legendary Shaper Glen D´arcy from Jeffrey’s Bay which became the key to their success in years to come. Glen is one of a few master shapers who has the skills to build surfboards from nearly all periods of surfing. Glen has built over 50 000 surfboards by hand and knew exactly how to help translate Norden´s vision into exciting new board designs. These shapes are not high performance surfboards that aim to make you look like the latest pro on the World Tour but a range of boards that combine old school designs with visionary, sometimes futuristic ideas to enable surfers to catch more waves, a lot of waves!-no matter how skilled the rider or how good, or bad the conditions are.

Today, more then two decades later, Glen has hang up the planer and Andy Wirtz has become the head of design. With his long time experience in all watersports and the developement of it´s equipment, he translates Glens heritage into new wave riding crafts.

Surfing has evolved to a higher level of performance and even a much wider audience. People today are riding waves on all kinds of equipment: shortboards, midlength, longboards, skimboards, kiteboards, SUPs, new futuristic foilboards…. you name it! We at Norden are stoked to see this developement and are proud to be part of this history the past 23 years. It shows that our original vision, -the very reason we started Norden-Surfboards, hit the spot.