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" Noseriding wasn't identified as a maneuver unto itself until the early 1950s, after the surfboard fin had grown big enough to really anchor the tail.

" wrote Matt Warshaw in " The History of Surfing ".

According to most surfing historians, the fin was invented by Tom Blake around 1935, for the purpose of anchoring the tail and giving the surfboard direction from the tail to the tip.

One of the first commercial surfboard manufacturers, Dale Vezy is credited as being the first to get to the nose to hang five and hang ten in the early 50s.

Noseriding is widely considered the origin of " Extreme " surfing and had become such a popular trick by the late 50s that Surfer Magazine publisher John Severson devoted a regular feature, called " Toes on the Nose ", starting with his debut issue of Surfer in 1960.