Get the Gun

Filed under: Issue 54

What: inDesign

Start Date: Wed, Jan 30 2008 | 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...

Know Your Nose

Filed under: Issue 53

What: inDesign

Start Date: Fri, Jan 25 2008 | 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. ...

Where Have All the Young Shapers Gone

Filed under: Issue 44

What: inDesign

Start Date: 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...

Eco-Friendly Surfboards: A simple cost benefit analysis

Filed under: Issue 45

What: inDesign

Start Date: Fri, Nov 30 2007 | 11:58am

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 ...

School of Fish

Filed under: Issue 38

What: inDesign

Start Date: Thu, Nov 29 2007 | 02:57am

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. ...

The Original Fish

Filed under: Issue 39

What: inDesign

Start Date: Wed, Nov 28 2007 | 01:42am

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, ...

Tim Bessell’s Parabolics

Filed under: Issue 41

What: inDesign

Start Date: Tue, Nov 27 2007 | 04:35am

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.   &...

The Reef Board Build Off: San Diego board builders shape for charity

Filed under: Issue 42

What: inDesign

Start Date: Mon, Nov 26 2007 | 07:02am

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...

Springing into the Limelight

Filed under: Issue 43

What: inDesign

Start Date: Sat, Nov 24 2007 | 02:15am

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...

What’s SUP?

Filed under: Issue 52

What: inDesign

Start Date: Tue, Nov 20 2007 | 04:02am

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...

The T stands for Technology: Surftech “flexes” their muscles with the TL2

Filed under: Issue 51

What: inDesign

Start Date: Tue, Nov 20 2007 | 01:55am

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...

The Unimaginable Imagined: the Tow-in Surfboard

What: inDesign

Start Date: Wed, Nov 14 2007 | 11:24am

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...