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Filed under: Issue 54
What: inDesign
Start Date: Wed, Jan 30 | 09:27am
Wed, Jan 30 | 09:27am
By: Patrick Zabrocki
General characteristics of big-wave guns include a longer length and increased thickness, but with a relatively narrow width. Guns range in length of 7’ to 12’ and 2 _” to 3 _&rdq...Filed under: Issue 53
What: inDesign
Start Date: Fri, Jan 25 | 11:38am
Fri, Jan 25 | 11:38am
By: Patrick Zabrocki
Let’s face it, the nose is the neglected part of a surfboard. It’s hard to break down this one part of a surfboard and discuss it separately from the others, but start with the basics. ...Filed under: Issue 44
What: inDesign
Start Date: Wed, Dec 12 2007 | 08:20am
Wed, Dec 12 2007 | 08:20am
By: Katie Westfall
Legendary shapers like Tom Blake, Dale Velzy, and Joe Quigg couldn’t live forever. Fortunately, while these shapers were in their heyday, a younger generation was in training. Guy...Filed under: Issue 45
What: inDesign
Start Date: Fri, Nov 30 2007 | 11:58am
Fri, Nov 30 2007 | 11:59am
By: Katie Westfall
It’s the quest for a more sustainable board. Many surfboard companies and blank producers are looking towards creating boards made of natural and renewable materials, or at least using ...Filed under: Issue 38
What: inDesign
Start Date: Thu, Nov 29 2007 | 02:57am
Thu, Nov 29 2007 | 02:58pm
By: Zach Plopper
Commentary by Sean MattisonIt’s two-foot, semi-clean and you can’t figure out what board to ride. Although the mood often dictates what one rides, the conditions lead your inclination. ...Filed under: Issue 39
What: inDesign
Start Date: Wed, Nov 28 2007 | 01:42am
Wed, Nov 28 2007 | 01:42pm
By: Zach Plopper
Have you ever looked at a vintage board from the 70s or 80s and wondered how a shaper could finish that thing and think it could work? Asymmetric wings, 11 channels, six fins and a reverse rocker, ...Filed under: Issue 41
What: inDesign
Start Date: Tue, Nov 27 2007 | 04:35am
Tue, Nov 27 2007 | 04:36pm
By: Jonathan Rodley
Fresh, clear epoxy, bright white foam, two stringers up the sides, light blue rails, Tim Bessell’s parabolic surfboards are a new species in the development of surfboard design. &...Filed under: Issue 42
What: inDesign
Start Date: Mon, Nov 26 2007 | 07:02am
Mon, Nov 26 2007 | 07:02pm
By: Jonathan Rodley
Surfing’s inspiration, surfboards imagined by shapers but rarely designed, will take center stage attention at the Action Sports Retailer (ASR) trade show this month. Thirteen surfboards by 1...Filed under: Issue 43
What: inDesign
Start Date: Sat, Nov 24 2007 | 02:15am
Sat, Nov 24 2007 | 02:16pm
By: Katie Westfall
The parabolic stringer is nothing new. A picture that hangs in longtime La Jolla shaper Tim Bessell’s office bears testament to this. Taken by Ron Church in 1963, a Huntington cro...Filed under: Issue 52
What: inDesign
Start Date: Tue, Nov 20 2007 | 04:02am
Tue, Nov 20 2007 | 04:03pm
By: Patrick Zabrocki
I spent one September afternoon in Del Mar scratching for pieces of an incoming NW swell that had been broken up by afternoon winds. After a long summer of mediocre surf sessions that included much...Filed under: Issue 51
What: inDesign
Start Date: Tue, Nov 20 2007 | 01:55am
Tue, Nov 20 2007 | 01:56pm
By: Patrick Zabrocki
The newest offering from Surftech sounds like a model of robot from the Terminator movies. The TL2 boards represent the most advanced surfboards on the market today to accommodate the rapid evoluti...What: inDesign
Start Date: Wed, Nov 14 2007 | 11:24am
Wed, Nov 14 2007 | 11:24pm
By: Katie Westfall
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think they'd be riding the boards they're riding now—or that I'd be building them,” legendary surfer and shaper Gerry Lopez said, ref...Copyright 1999-2008 SurfShot Media Inc - All rights reserved