Matt Calvani, the lead shaper for Bing Surfboards, won the Shape-off for best recreating a difficult 1970s design by the late ...

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 ...

The Uluwatu Surf Villas are perched atop one of the most beautiful properties in the world, overlooking the most famous wave in Indonesia. With so many talented surfers and shapers coming through the ...

Santa Barbara isn’t a big city, but it’s played an outsized role in the development of the surfboard industry. Since the 1960s, Santa Barbarans have created some of the most iconic boards, ...

"Shaping Surf History: Tom Curren and Al Merrick, California 1980-1983" by surf photographer Jimmy Metyko has hit the market. And eleven-time world champ Kelly Slater thinks surf history buffs will ...

SANTA CRUZ — Doug Haut has done a lot to shape the surfing culture of Santa Cruz, in more ways than one. In the literal sense, he has constructed, or “shaped,” an estimated 30,000-plus surfboards ...

Few people in this vast realm of surfing can say they’ve had a hand in shaping the sport (quite literally) for more than half a century. But legendary La Jolla-based board builder Rusty Preisendorfer ...

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 ...