Tiki is not just a surf brand. Tiki is a significant player in the development of British surfing.

In 1963, there wasn’t a whole lot of surfing going on in Britain. A few of the Cornish towns had a small following, but generally if you wanted to surf, it was up to you to make it happen. Tim Heyland made it happen when he shaped his first board in the winter of 1963. At the time, there were no surf shops, no shapers as such, no global surf brands flooding the media with aspirational lifestyle imagery. It was simply about making a surfboard and going surfing, or not. However, as surfing slowly filtered into the minds of the masses, a demand for surfboards steadily grew.