Maverick’s 2011-12 Contest Preview: Watering the Roots of Maverick’s
Surf season has been in full swing on the coast as the Indian summer trades blows with Old Man winter in a…
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Shaping notes, surf culture, and stories from the bay
Warm to the Core: The Story of Isurus Wetsuits and Tim West
Montara wetsuit upstart Isurus has teamed up with coastside charger Tim West to develop an innovative new line of high-end, buoyant, light…
Read MoreShaping Without Skil: Confessions of a Scrubber (Part 2 of 2)
Ghost Shaper in the Machine The very same computer-aided (CAD) technology that helped globalize and liberate the surfboard industry from its cottage…
Read MoreShaping Without Skil: Confessions of a Scrubber (Part 1 of 2)
Over the course of the past few months I have computer-designed and hand-finished five new surfboards and, despite minor character flaws, they…
Read MoreThe Modern Meyerhoffer Longboard Goes Global
In a marriage of opposites, nimble designer-surfer Thomas Meyerhoffer of Montara has joined forces with distribution and manufacturing powerhouse Global Surf Industries…
Read MoreIndo Board and the Zen of Balance
With spring and summer comes increased downtime for surfers as Mother Ocean becomes more mean-spirited and quality waves harder to find (see…
Read MoreOde to Spring
For NorCal surfers, spring is a frozen curse, arriving with all the subtlety of a claw hammer. Winds in winter swing back…
Read MoreSurfing Smart with SurfCo Hawaii
Needless to say, SurfPulse was preaching to the choir when they asked me to review SurfCo Hawaii’s product line. If you haven’t…
Read MoreThe Evolution of Randy Cone and the Maverick’s Gun
Like the shaping industry itself, Randy Cone is at a crossroads. His passion for surfing big waves and hand-crafting precision surfboards drew…
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