Boardshorts To Live The Search

The best materials and technology to enhance your Search

The Search Collection

A quest for a lifestyle to surf and explore the highest peaks to remote reefs.

Mirage 3-2-One Boardshort

Tested in the heaviest conditions while on the Search. Made with a combination of Cordura, E6 Neoprene and Mirage Pro Fabric, the Mirage 3/2/One Ultimate is designed to be tough where you need it.

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Rip Curl Boardshort Guide

Surfers live in boardshorts. The water, the beach, cruising back streets in Indo or Mexico. While they’re ultra versatile, different boardshorts are better for different things. We’ve put together a quick guide to help sort your ultra-performance surf shorts from your casual shorts, to those that balance a bit of both. Find your best-fitting Boardshort below from the Ultimate Surfing Company.

Boardshorts for Performance

Tested by World Champions and team riders. Our performance shorts feature four-way stretch technology, lightweight construction and welded seams for complete freedom in the water.

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Boardshorts for Lifestyle

Boardshorts designed and developed for life beyond the lineup, bringing together style and functionality.

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Boardshort Length

Boardshort length is as personal as surfboard choice. Performance, comfort, and showing off your sculpted quads (or not) are all factors. Here’s length vs look at a glance.

CORDURA®

We’ve worked with CORDURA® for nearly a decade to create the Ultimate Boardshort material. Tough yet stretchy, comfortable, quick drying, chafe resistant, lightweight. Whenever you see their mark on our shorts, you’re wearing a relationship made in surf heaven. Specialist fabric built for The Search.

Boardshorts to Live #TheSearch with Mason Ho, Crosby Colapinto, George Pittar & More

Hi-Fi Surfing in Hi-Fi Boardshorts. Mason Ho, George Pittar, Crosby Colapinto, Sheldon Paishon and Jacob Willcox let loose in the latest Rip Curl Mirage Boardshorts. Weaving pits, throwing airs and ditching fins. The ultimate surf edit in the ultimate surfing boardshorts. Stretchy, durable, built for The Search.

Learn More About Our Boardshorts

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