Andy Nieblas is a member of the Acjachemen nation, and at a young age was given the name "Walks o...

This week's Board of the Week also happens to be our most stable noserider.  It's the signature m...

Guys, I think we might be onto something with this Experimental 7'6" Mini Walks on Water.  I surf...

Liam Gloyd goes fully fins-free on the 8'0 R-Series Joy. This style of surfing brings me great jo...

What is one thing that really good surfers can do that novice and intermediate surfers cannot? Re...

Catch waves earlier. It makes everything in surfing happen more easily.  When you catch your wave...

In the mid 1960’s big, heavy longboards were still the cutting edge of surfboard design and techn...

14 years ago in a tiny, termite-ridden building on Old Newport Blvd, we opened the doors to our v...

“Your friends will wonder how you always seem to be in the right spot for every set wave." For al...

It should be no surprise that we are big fans of noseriding around here. Patagonia and Lauren Hil...

Part of our job is to refine our best sellers and ensure that they are as reliable and true as an...

Last week, I wrote an article about what to expect when you make the jump from a foamie (like the...

If you’ve ever watched great surfers glide effortlessly across waves, you’ve probably thought, I ...

In honor of National Almond Day, we're taking a look back at the origin of our name (which we st...

So, you've been riding a "foamie" like an R-Series Surfboard for a couple years, and you're start...

Two Feet & Firing is both a celebration and a call to action. It's a celebration of how much ...

Three Waves at Doheny with Andy Nieblas (riding his signature model: the 9'8 Walks on Water)  🎥: ...

On Wednesday morning, we gathered for the first meeting of the Early & Often Surf Club for 20...

Over the next several weeks, we are going to be doing some shop renovations around here. (7 1/2 y...

My interest in surfing extends so far as it contributes to human flourishing. What a genuine deli...

One of the most satisfying sensations on a wave is to be firmly perched on the nose of a longboa...

Immersing yourself in cold water has health benefits—so embrace cold water and enjoy every bit of...

I touched on this last week, in our Tips for Getting Your Very First Barrel, but the point is so ...

We asked you guys what surfing goals you had for 2023, and naturally "get barreled" was among the...

We are kicking off 2023 with a CLEAN ONE... This is a 9'6 Lumberjack with white panels and a spec...

We took our most stable noserider model, Andy Nieblas' Walks on Water, and made it... smaller.  A...

The Law of Diminishing Returns is defined as such: "a principle stating that profits or benefits...

Here is Almond's head shaper, Griffin Neumann-Kyle, speed-shaping a surfboard in 45 seconds.

Surfboards are like the guitars of the outdoor recreation world... because they are both function...

WTRP (pronounced Wyatt Earp) is an acronym for Winged-Twin Rounded-Pin. This a mid-sized surfboa...

I've been surfing more lately. My year started off with the birth of our second child, followed b...

We ship surfboards all over the world. It's rewarding for us to know that the boards we build her...

On Black Friday, we closed the shop and went surfing... and we invited you to join us. The waves ...

I have often lamented the demise of the modern surf film; in part because films were so formative...

For the fourth (maybe fifth?) year in a row... Almond Surf Shop going to be closed on Black Frida...

Surfing is not productive, in that there is no tangible output of the time and effort spent surfi...