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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dropping a new, 30-minute film by Kelly Foote on his YouTube channel, Aliotti goes deep on his quest to build the perfect ...

Encinitas shaper Zack Flores shaped his first surfboard when he was just 10 years old. That was 12 years ago. Yesterday he launched the first installment of a new series called "How to Shape a ...

Mowing chunks of foam into neatly hand-crafted surfboards is an art-form. The somewhat modern introduction of lighter-cored surfboards has been a shaping revolution, offering more ways to whip up ...

Finally, an industry trade show less about the industry and more about the trade. The second annual Sacred Craft Consumer Surfboard Expo, held at the Del Mar Fairgrounds October 11th and 12th, was, as ...

The high-pitched whine of the electric planer splits the air, and Malcolm Knight walks up and back, again and again, gradually carving a curve into the side of a block of foam. Although a vacuum sucks ...

A surfboard that not long ago spent several weeks being shaped in the Sydney factory of Haydenshapes is now carving through eight-foot waves off the coast of Hawaii. As one of the world’s most ...

Jacksonville Beach's Mike Whisnant has been shaping surfboards for more than 25 years. And while he has created thousands of custom boards, fulfilling requests from customers for all shapes and sizes, ...

The surfer-shaper relationship is as old as the sport itself. Somebody had to make all those surfboards, after all. From the Dick Brewer/Gerry Lopez relationship, to Occy and Rusty, and Tom Curren and ...

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 ...