Zack Flores knows surfboards. He knows not only how to surf them extraordinarily well, but how to make them so they work well, too. It’s becoming a bit of a lost art these days — the surfer/shaper who ...

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 ...

A pair of entrepreneurs have developed a new conversion kit known as the Boost Surfing Fin that promises to help surfers spend less time paddling and more time surfing. Dmitri Kozhevnikov and Alexei ...

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 ...

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This is especially true when it comes to surfboards. Or so they... say. Anyway, channel your inner Spicoli for Grain Surfboards Kits, the ...

Just because your surfboard got creased from stomping that massive punt, or while getting flogged during that last swell, doesn't mean it's trash. If you've got the slightest bit of DIY gumption and ...

Wanted to warn that I’m not a particularly skilled surfer, but I think you would just assume that. Basically, I excel at nothing in particular, though I did win the father-son fantasy football league ...

Mike Sheldrake makes surfboards, but he does it with a material most wouldn’t mix with water – cardboard. The unconventional cardboard surfboard idea came to Sheldrake 10 years ago after he quit his ...