Almond's Guide to Shaping Your First Surfboard

Understanding your equipment is a critical part of progressing your surfing experience, and becoming the best all-around surfer in the lineup. 

What better way to gain knowledge than investing time, and mental energy, into shaping a surfboard yourself.

Note: This guide is not called how to become a surfboard shaper, how to quit your job and start a surfboard business, or how to become a master of the shaping room. 

There are unique elements to shaping your first surfboard that I think have tremendous value in the overall surf experience, and we are going to unpack those things together.

Included in this Guide:

• Hot Tips
• Origin Stories
• Advice from our 13+ years of building surfboards