Responsibilities: “I mainly design and shape surfboards and, with that, comes a lot of R&D with riders and equipment. The personal R&D is riding new variations of boards that you’ve already proven to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Encinitas surfboard shaper Gary Hanel taught high school math for 32 years at San Pasqual Academy High School in Escondido. He wasn’t exactly the typical instructor. For one, his long, flowing hair ...

The son of a Waikiki beach boy, Kai Sallas is no stranger to a life spent around the ocean. Raised on Oahu’s south shore, Sallas spent his formative years bodyboarding in Waikiki. Then, when he was 10 ...

SUP mag’s Will Taylor takes you through the process of shaping an SUP the old-fashioned way with Christopher Clark of Shaper Studios in San Diego, Calif. Any paddler would jump at the chance to shape ...

To talk about the history of longboarding is to talk about the origins of surfing as a whole. Ancient Polynesian cultures rode boards that were thin, heavy and made from solid wood like koa. (Good ...