Shaping a surfboard with ones own hands is sure to be high on the bucket list of any surfer you know. That's where Shaper Supply Co.'s "Shaping School" comes in, a four-hour introductory lesson on ...

Mark “Marko” Wolfinger was a La Jolla surfing legend. He rode many of the world’s most famous surf spots and dominated surfing competitions from a young age. But his passion for the sport extended ...

Do you love surfing and have always dreamed of shaping your own board? Does your guy or gal spend endless hours fawning over surfboards in magazines and surf shops? If you answered yes to either of ...

In the early 1960s, surf shops, which had been little more than beach shacks where balsawood blanks were sculpted into surfboards, were replaced by storefronts where surfboards were sold along with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Shaping Surf History: Tom Curren and Al Merrick, California 1980-1983" by surf photographer Jimmy Metyko has hit the market. And ...

Geoff McCoy, one of surfboard shaping’s most creative minds from the early shortboard era, has died at home in Byron Bay, Australia. He was 79 years old. As news of the legendary board-builder’s ...

ORLANDO — More than 20 years ago two friends and surfers, Roy Turner, then an owner of a North Carolina Surf Shop, and Mick Duncan came together to form the non-profit 501(3) BRH, Board of Retailers ...

Dennis Jarvis shut his eyes and felt around the edges of a partially shaped piece of foam surfboard. He worked his fingers along the sides like a blind man reading braille, stopping for a moment when ...

Just off El Cajon Boulevard and 30th Street, there is a surf shop that has a mandatory day off to surf every Monday and you don’t even have to work there to work there. You can’t work there on Mondays ...

Some fathers pass down a love of fishing to their sons. Others share the tradition of fixing cars or building a model train set. Josh Martin’s family legacy is shaping surfboards. Over a nearly ...

It’s been nearly two months since Lahaina was devastated by wildfires, and the situation remains desperate for Maui residents. According to local shaper Josh Weisfeld of JAW Surfboards, Lahaina is ...