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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to the art of surfboard shaping — there is no such thing as “too old” to continue your craft. That statement proved to be fact at this year's Florida Shape Off held at the Orlando ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though 29-year-old Virginia Beach surfboard shaper Jordan Brazie was one of the youngest to compete in last weekend’s Surf Expo shape-off — it was his overall knowledge of the art and probably a ...

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 ...