MinitankIn 1981, while the rest of the surf world was caught up in the shortboard thruster revolution, Ben Aipa flipped the script. He brought the longboard backbut not as you knew it. He engineered a new kind of weapon: the Modern Longboarda high performance tanker that moved like a shortboard and changed the way people thought abo ut riding longboards forever. Then in 1982, he doubled down and spun the idea into something even more disruptive: The MINI