There’s something truly extraordinary about longboarding with friends. Certainly, learning to longboard (or, learning to surf on a longboard) is far easier than learning on a shortboard…or whatever ...

There’s something truly extraordinary about longboarding with friends. Certainly, learning to longboard (or, learning to surf on a longboard) is far easier than learning on a shortboard…or whatever ...

Responsibilities: “I mainly design and shape surfboards and, with that, comes a lot of R&D with riders and equipment. The personal R&D is riding new variations of boards that you’ve already proven to ...

Michael Takayama of Michael Surfboards specializes in shaping longboards. By Alexandra Cheney OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Inside the 128-square-foot shaping bay at Michael Surfboards, family history and ...

Ask any surfer why they love the sport and they’ll probably start gushing (in quasi-spiritual terms) about the mind-body benefits of riding waves. And, as ridiculous as they might sound, they have a ...