IllustrationSan Diego shaper Dan Mann, shaping since around 1996, is the hands behind Kelly Slater’s DRK, FRK+ and Boss Up designs for Firewire. He talks free-range design, his Boardroom Shape-Off win, surfing both ways and why paddling is “Water College on steroids.”
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IllustrationHe cut bait on the Manhattan Beach Pier, led the charge into Waimea, then dropped into a Makaha monster that nobody caught…
IllustrationStorm wind builds long-period swell that travels for days; at Jaws, Nazaré and Maverick’s, underwater canyons and reefs focus that energy like…
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IllustrationBude’s Liam Turner, Carve Issue 233’s cover star, lives and works at HT’s in the Mentawais—surfing when it fires, stacking hours when…
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