Ryan Burch, 25, is not your stereotypical surfboard shaper. Surfer and shaper Ryan Burch with a quiver’s worth of asymmetrical surfboards; photo by Aaron Checkwood/TransWorld SURF The stereotypical ...

Asymmetrical surfboards are one of those quirky, once-weird-seeming design elements that have slowly but surely evolved into the niche peripheries of surfboard culture. You may not have one, but good ...

During the second weekend of October in 2011 the Sacred Craft Consumer Surfboard Expo will honor Carl Ekstrom during the 'Tribute to the Masters Shape-off' presented by US Blanks. The forward thinking ...

Carl Ekstrom shows this reporter a photo of himself surfing taken from the deck at Duke’s La Jolla, sometime in the 1960s. “That’s me, doing a bottom turn on an asymmetrical,” he says, beaming. “I’m ...

The first-ever state High School Surfing Championships are just ahead. Alex Reinprecht from Ocean Paddler TV is here to talk about the upcoming contest.

Traditional, hybrid or high-tech – what’s your choice? AAP Image ASP Kelly Cestari The surfboard industry remains a paradox – existing in a shared but parallel world of high-tech and traditional ...