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.

To assist the aspiring DIY surfboard builders out there, we put together a few resouces, including Almond's Guide to Shaping Your First Surfboard and 4 free downloadable pdf surfboard templates.

• Step 1: Read this Guide
• Step 2: Choose from the Pogie Fish, Kookumber, a mid-length template, or a classic longboard template.
• Step 3: Take the template PDF to your local Fedex Print shop and print full length.
• Step 4: Trace your template on the bottom of your surfboard blank.
• Step 5: Build yourself a DIY surfboard.

You can find all of our free downloadable resources here.