UC San Diego is known for academics, but there’s still plenty of fun to be had. A recent example: There’s now a class mixing science with the beach by teaching students and community members how to ...

Making a surfboard from foam is of course very cool, but it does not have the tradition of “whiskey planks," which means it will forever be inferior to the process of building a wooden surfboard.

Zack Flores knows how to shape surfboards. He knows how to surf those surfboards. Here, he gives five tips to the would-be ...

When it comes to surfboard experimentation and thinking outside the box, few shapers have the creative genius, natural curiosity and craftsmanship skills to push limits like Donald Brink. Originally ...

There are plenty of places in the Bay Area where you can buy a surfboard. And almost as many that offer customized boards, where you meet with the shaper and discuss the specific dimensions of a board ...

NEW BUFFALO, MICHIGAN - Ken Cole prepared to seal what he called the aesthetic part of his project — a surfboard made primarily of Colectivo coffee bags and palm leaves. He called it the sealing of a ...

Getting a surfboard made by Ryan Burch is very, very hard. If one were to try and purchase one from his website, one would quickly find that nearly every stock surfboard is sold out all the time. Even ...

Michael Takayama of Michael Surfboards specializes in shaping longboards. By Alexandra Cheney OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Inside the 128-square-foot shaping bay at Michael Surfboards, family history and ...