World’s Greatest surfboard shaper, ever: It’s all the backyard ... But going back to my original idea, it’s the backyard guys that are the best. Mowing foam and turning blanks into pieces ...

Terry Martin carved his first surfboard at age 14, and tens of thousands more during the next 60 years. That put him in the elite ranks of the board artisans known as shapers (Surfing Magazine ...

Mike Diffenderfer was known off Kaua’i as a world-class surfboard shaper, as the man who named the Banzai Pipeline and as one of the first modern-day surfers to ride the huge waves of Waimea Bay ...

and all were seasoned “senior” shapers and icons of the craft. Cocoa Beach resident, Allen White, won first place and was the recipient of $2,000 and a Living in Sunshine surfboard rack.

And the artist? Sekar Patchai, a national surfing champion and now, also, a surfboard shaper. “Travellers order boards from me to take it back to their country and hang it up in their homes as ...

Best surf movie? I say make your own pick. The one that really changed your surfing. The Greatest surf contest ever: Pipe Masters. The great equalizer. No argument. The Greatest surf brand ever ...