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For Seth Stone .... @couchpotatochriscpc

For Seth Stone .... @couchpotatochriscpc

Happy birthday Skipper! Mucho Aloha from all of t

Happy birthday Skipper! Mucho Aloha from all of those whom you have touched and inspired. Trim your life away.....

Day two 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Day two 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

There’s elk on that hill...

There’s elk on that hill...

Headed into the elk woods. Hoping there is some go

Headed into the elk woods. Hoping there is some good at the end of this rainbow.

10.10 Thinman for @ricklohr Not too many of these

10.10 Thinman for @ricklohr Not too many of these out there by me. Enjoy the slide. #slidetheglide

Plato del día @surfilmfestibal

Plato del día @surfilmfestibal

@tsuttle first custom built board. 6.7 Piseas Twin

@tsuttle first custom built board. 6.7 Piseas Twin Bamboo! #slidetheglide

Sunday service. Skip shaping Joe a personal. @joer

Sunday service. Skip shaping Joe a personal. @joeropersrepairs

9.7 Log. Been a few years since I shaped myself on

9.7 Log. Been a few years since I shaped myself one. Influenced by the latest pack sent over to Maui for the crew! Gonna have to remember to go slow again! Hahahah

Winter weapons. 11.0 Pintail for the islands. @ps

Winter weapons. 11.0 Pintail for the islands. @psebows NTN. Both prepped for some carnage. #slidetheglide #nockonnation

12.0 Flying Fish Simmons for local waterman @donal

12.0 Flying Fish Simmons for local waterman @donaldmiralle Enjoy their glide my friend. Color done by @superwolf 🤪🤪🤪#slidetheglide.

National Purple Heart Day. Thank you to all who ha

National Purple Heart Day. Thank you to all who have, do and will serve to protect us and our freedoms. My dad Dave Hall @papadaveanahola received one during his tour of Vietnam as a flame thrower track commander. Don’t forget! And thank those around you.

Too many good times with this legend right here.

Too many good times with this legend right here. Pablo Smith 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 @soulgrindskateshop

Ohana member @randysurforama picking up his new Ma

Ohana member @randysurforama picking up his new Mag-egg. Slide away my friend #slidetheglide

Private beach with @thevidawell

Private beach with @thevidawell

made it to lands end @thevidawell ♥️♥️♥️

Frothing for everyone enjoying the @totalarcherych

Frothing for everyone enjoying the @totalarcherychallenge in Park City this weekend! Get after it!

10.5 Fish Simmons for Bill #slidetheglide

10.5 Fish Simmons for Bill #slidetheglide

#Repost @surfersjournal ・・・ It’s a univers

#Repost @surfersjournal
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It’s a universal law of hydrodynamics that surfboards need curves to work. Shapers have thus hunted the right curves relentlessly, which they preserve in templates, allowing for consistency in design and efficiency in production. Like natural selection, bad curves have been discarded and good ones have evolved. Over time, these working curves have been blended together, with multiple templates being combined to create a single surfboard outline. In turn, those outlines have led to the creation of entirely new templates and board designs.

In TSJ 30.3, author and associate editor Ben Waldron (@quest_haven) talked to five shapers about template culture, evolution, and current place in contemporary board building. Check the roll call of craftsmen here, and hit the link in our bio to get your copy of the issue and read "Outlining the Experience" in full.

Captions:
1. Tyler Hatzikian (@tylersurfboards). Photo by Grant Ellis (@grantellis1).
2. Pat Rawson (@rawsonsurfboard). Photo by Tony Heff (@tony_heff).
3. Matt Kechele (@matt_kechele). Photo by Jimmy Wilson (@jimmicane).
4. Josh Hall (@joshhallsurfboards). Photo by Grant Ellis.
5. Renny Yater. Photo by Grant Ellis.

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