“Surfers are so connected to nature, but they’re divorced from the impact foam boards have on the environment,” says Brad Anderson, cofounder of Grain Surfboards. To build a better board, he and ...

Get out from behind that screen and build something with your hands this summer. How about a beautiful wooden surfboard? Before fiberglass and foam surfboards, there was wood. Surfers made boards from ...

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Getting your homemade surfboard noticed in this town full of surfboard shapers is about as easy as getting barreled your first time surfing. That is, unless you have a board that rails the edges ...

A unique community event, a local sustainable surfboard shaper, a Santa Cruz boutique retail shop and a multinational coffee powerhouse will join together at 8 p.m. Friday at Stripe MEN in downtown ...

Skip "Andres" Kozminski lives to surf. He's been riding waves for the last half-century. But when the California native moved to the coast of Ecuador in 1972, there wasn't a surfboard to be found. Now ...

Colorado is a popular place, known for gorgeous mountain vistas, rugged terrain, winter sports and the like. It is not usually considered a place for surfers to catch a wave. That's what makes so ...

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.

Last week we left off our story of legendary Southern California surfing pioneer Lorrin “Whitey” Harrison at the end of the 1930’s. By that time he had become one of the leaders in building and ...

If you want something to look elegant, you build it out of wood. If you want it to look cutting-edge, on the other hand, you make it out of carbon fiber. So, what happens when you combine the two ...