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 ...

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 ...

SAYVILLE, Long Island (WABC) -- At just 16, Michael Becker was making surfboards in his backyard with his parents financing his project. Now he has his own shop "Nature's Shapes" making custom boards.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

ORLANDO — More than 20 years ago two friends and surfers, Roy Turner, then an owner of a North Carolina Surf Shop, and Mick Duncan came together to form the non-profit 501(3) BRH, Board of Retailers ...

The 24th annual International Surfboard Builders Hall of Fame induction ceremony, party, festival and Polynesian luau will take place this year on Oct. 14. It will be held at the Pier Plaza in ...