For decades, Gordon Clark and his company Clark Foam held an almost complete monopoly on the surfboard blank market. “Blanks” are pieces of foam with reinforcing wood strips (called ...

Starting with two pink sheets of XPS, he laminated them together with glue to form his blank. A stringer is a long piece of wood in the middle of the surfboard that provides additional flex and ...

But at first it is simple -- just you and the blank locked in a struggle to whittle out something resembling a surfboard. And guess what? No matter how your first board turns out, it'll work just ...

Surf Expo in Orlando features the industry items and trends that will be seen on beaches around the world in 2025.