While the planshape may be the most distinctly different feature it's not the only thing that's out of leftfield on the board. In creating the Camel Toe Cory threw many accepted norms away and looked at the shortboard anew.
The Lazor Zap has a checkered history; born from a period of great experimentation but largely forgotten in favour of the conventional Thruster, its popularity mirrors the success of its most famous pilot - Cheyne Horan.
The surf industry has a propensity to look backwards - to look at what happened in the 50' s and the 60's and the 70's - and I doubt very much if you went to an aerospace conference people would be talking about the Wright brothers, like 'yeah they killed it back then!'
"Slater's knowledge of fin design is okay, but lets see what happens with the all important bottom shape in the back end of his smaller boards."
Greenough makes the claim that the pointed nose is a 'fashion statement' and adds nothing to the performance of the surfboard. In fact, he says that having a nose is detrimental to a boards functionality. The solution he says it to get out a jam jar.