Surfboards come in all different shapes and sizes. Usually, those nuanced alterations – be it length, width, thickness, volume, or materials to make the board – are correlated to two things: 1) type ...

Surfing off the California coast is as popular as it's ever been, from the party wave riders at Malibu, to the folks chilling at Doheny, where you can sit for hours in the lineup just waiting for the ...

A surfboard company called Newave is attempting to solve a problem that plagues most traveling surfers: how many surfboards to bring on your surf trip. Traveling with boards, no matter who you are, ...

Soft top surfboards are becoming a staple in line-ups around the world. Cheap and virtually indestructible, they’re being used by beginners, pros, and many of us in between, in waves from the Pipeline ...

Bizia Surf in Wahiawā offers surfboards made entirely of albizia, an invasive tree that’s common in Hawai‘i. When co-owner Joey Valenti was going to school at UH Mānoa, he studied the efficacy of ...

To find the headquarters of Grain Surfboards, turn away from the beach. Drive 10 minutes past the steepled church in York, Maine, past the clam shacks, past the farmstand that advertises Fresh Corn, ...

Step into the workshops of most surfboard-makers and you'll find a fluffy, snowlike layer of polyurethane foam under your feet. The floor of Danny Hess' Outer Sunset garage is covered with sawdust. As ...

In a recent survey, the vast majority of surfers feel a personal responsibility for the health of the ocean. Now, a Santa Cruz company hopes to provide them with one way to surf in a more eco-friendly ...

It's both challenging and crucial to recycle wind turbine blades, because those massive fins are built to weather the elements for decades and don't degrade quickly in landfills. An Australian company ...

If a surfboard is a paintbrush and a wave is a canvas, then surfers today have thousands of different tools to make art. Are you a traditionalist, like the Old Masters? Take out a classic longboard.