View post: I Stayed at Southern Utah’s Most Anticipated New Volcanic Resort. It’s the Ultimate Secret Backdoor to Zion Surfer and shaper Ryan Burch with a quiver’s worth of asymmetrical surfboards; ...

While the world seems geared toward breeding out individuality, surfing celebrates those who successfully break predetermined boundaries. Still, in a time not long ago, fog shrouded our tribe’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tommy Tanaka is a renowned surfboard shaper, and it's a destiny he probably couldn't avoid. His late father, Ernie Tanaka, was a legendary shaper.

Humans are, for the most part, bilaterally symmetrical. Our right side looks like our left side and vice versa. Same goes for surfboards. Trouble is, a frontside turn looks dramatically different from ...

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 ...

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 ...