When it comes to legacy surf brands, Bing Surfboards holds a special place in the history of surfing. Founded in 1959 by Bing Copeland in Hermosa Beach, CA, Bing is one of the few that has survived ...

Fifty years ago, one of the world’s best traditional surfboard makers signed a deal to build and sell one of surfing’s most radical and least understood surfboard designs. Incredibly, both prospered.

Surfboard shaper Dale Velzy, known as the founder of the first retail surf shop in the world, had that legacy honored with a plaque installation at the shop’s original location this week — just steps ...

Dale Velzy started shaping surfboards in the 1940s and eventually opened what is considered the first retail surf shop in the world in Manhattan Beach in 1950. His legend as a surfboard shaper grew ...

It’s a way to pay homage to surfing’s greats, the South Bay icons who paved the way on the waves. The annual Surfers Walk of Fame induction will happen at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 23, at Hermosa ...

It was a heavy rainy day in Leucadia that Tim Crozier, of Blackbird Surfboards and Icons of Foam Shape Off Director, and I sat down to recap the Boardroom Show held in Del Mar this past weekend. We ...