Almond's Guide to Shaping Your First Surfboard

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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

Almond's Guide to Shaping Your First Surfboard