The faster you go, the faster you go. This zen koan is also the clever-ish tagline selling Quobba fins, an Australian company that's using the Margies event to shock the world (maybe) with their new fin design. Glenn Miller and Wayne B[...]

Since launching in the early 2000s, Southern California's Album Surfboards has cultivated worldwide intrigue, adapting an emphasis on elegant, minimal aesthetics to a range of distinctive, functional shapes built for a variety of waves[...]

It was sometime in the late 1960s. Master California shaper Marc Andreini, a then-15-year-old surf-obsessed grom, was captaining a Boston Whaler along the coast of the hollowed Hollister Ranch when he pulled into the cove at Government[...]

The 2017 Pe’ahi Challenge was a monumental two days of surfing. Simply put, the bar has been raised. Since the shift from tow-in surfing to paddle-in, the best big-wave surfers have elevated their ability to take off steeper, dee[...]

A couple of years ago, Santa Barbara shaper Ryan Lovelace's career was at an impasse. Approaching 30, he'd already been shaping for a full one-third of his life, piquing the interests of inquisitive surf enthusiasts with offbeat, yet h[...]

For the most part, big-wave guns have looked much the same for the last few decades. Sure, shapers have made incremental changes to volume, fin placement, rocker, bottom contours, etc., but the general shape of a big-wave surfboard loo[...]