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.

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 ...

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 ...

Sustainable surfboard pioneer Ryan Harris is paying it forward this holiday season with a fundraiser to help inner city youth learn to swim.

Swellcycle’s zero-waste approach combats what’s known as the “surfer’s paradox,” in which surfers, who are often avid ...

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 ...

Hobie Alter could have called it quits after his first surfboard, crafted from a heavy balsa wood in his father’s Laguna Beach garage. But, “he didn’t like that board,” said Dick Metz, who had met ...

Lower volume increases sensitivity but can become a bit more tweaky in heavy surf. Higher-volume boards increase stability ...

Surfing off the California coast is as popular as it's ever been, from the party wave riders at Malibu, to the folks chilling at Doheny, where you can sit for hours in the lineup just waiting for the ...

A snarky remark by my friend Kevin changed everything I thought I knew about surfboards. After parking in front of his house by San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, I unloaded the hefty eight-foot surfboard ...

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 ...