The art of playing in harmony with the ocean is something Native Hawaiians have done for centuries. It’s called surfing nowadays, but the ancient Hawaiians said he’e nalu, or “wave sliding.” It was ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to accuracy, when attempting to re-create the specifications of a surfboard design, there is a lot to it. Each of the eight skilled craftsmen who were invited to replicate the late ...

The first surfboards, Matt Warshaw writes in The History of Surfing, were “likely banged together . . . with no more godly thoughts than a woodcrafter making a door.” Over the hundreds of years since, ...

Behind every great wave rider is a shaper—and here on the First Coast, few names resonate like Whisnant. A longtime fixture in the local surf scene, Whisnant Surfboards are more than just ...