In 1972 Bob Newlands aka "The Yank" shaped and made his own boards and most of them were asymetricals, usually pintails. Bobby McTavish came back to Byron when i was at San Juan and made a 6'10' stinger ,hook tail asymetrical, these were the first and only non accidentally shaped asymetricals that I ever saw then . Now we see a variety of them and, I personally like what 's being made. a longboard that caught my eye was this one from Wayne Rich from the States who has a well earned reputation and lovely shaped boards.