The Best Surfboard for Hurricane Season: Top 3 Picks
We’ve compiled a list to help you find the best surfboard for hurricane season on the east coast. It’s every surfer on the East Coast’s favorite time of year. September is known for its world-class swells and warm water temperatures. For the most part, tourists go home and leave the locals to enjoy less-crowded waves. This is the time of year to leave the grovelers at home...Read More 0
Best Boards to Surf San Diego this Summer
Summer is here! But California surfers know that this isn’t the most consistent time of year to surf pumping–or uncrowded–waves. While summer still provides plenty of waves and warm days to relax at the beach, you might benefit from a bit more foam to increase the wave count in crowded lineups and soft surf. We asked head shaper Dan O’Hara and the rest of our San Diego team for...Read More 0
3 Reasons to Ride a Hemp Surfboard
Hemp is at the hart of a renaissance of sustainable design. Whether it’s in the fashion industry or the military, engineers look to this plant for its incredible strength and unique properties. Solid is pioneering its use in surfboard design as a natural alternative to fiberglass cloth reinforcements. Many natural materials are weaker than synthetics or less durable. But hemp is...Read More 0
De La Tierra: A Surf Movie by Sean Santiago and Solid Surfboards
De La Tierra is about the mission that all surfers should have in common: to leave the places we love better than we find them. Contrary to what many think, most surfboards are still produced with toxic materials. Solid Surfboards is breaking that mold. We create surfboards that have less impact on the environment than traditional boards. The mission goes further than just using sustainable...Read More 3
San Diego Surf Spotlight
San Diego surf is our life at Solid Surfboards. We proudly design and manufacture our boards in San Diego since 2004. On our journey to build a sustainable surf company, we’ve made a few friends. You could say we’ve also spent a bit of time in the water here. This is the first in a series where we highlight San Diego Surfers and the waves they find around home. This is Tarcisio...Read More 0
How to Ship Sustainable Surfboards
We’ve seen sustainable surfboards develop a lot in recent years. Here at Solid we’re happy to be a leader of the movement. But, if you don’t know how to ship sustainable surfboards, it can be as detrimental as using traditional materials. A board made from recycled materials in Asia and shipped to the US can have a bigger carbon footprint than one made locally with traditional...Read More 0
Best Boards to Surf Rockaway, NYC this Summer
If you’re looking to surf Rockaway this summer, we have some options for you! We asked Solid Surfboards founder and head shaper, Dan O’Hara, what his recommendations are. You should pick a surfboard based on ability level as well as type of waves you intend to surf. Seasons bring different types of weather, and along with it different types of waves. The east coast generally gets...Read More 0
Sustainable Surf Tourism
A sustainable lifestyle is as hot of a topic as ever in the surf industry. It doesn’t take an expert surfer or an environmental scientist to notice that our love of chasing down an empty wave often requires a large carbon footprint. Of course, it is not entirely the individual’s fault. It will be hard to be sustainable as long as fossil fuels and disposable materials exist....Read More 0
Surfboard Scholarship Winner Organizes Beach Cleanup
This fall the Solid Surfboards team decided to continue to support the Puerto Rican surf community that we love by donating a surfboard to a young Puerto Rican surfer. We partnered with the Puerto Rican Surf Federation, surfer Juan Carlos Gerena, and artist Sean Santiago. We created a unique surf scholarship. Most surfboard scholarships reward only athletic ability. Since our mission at Solid...Read More 0
Ben Gravy Testing Surfboards in New Jersey
Who is Ben Gravy and why is he testing surfboards? Ben Gravy is a well known surfer and social media personality. With more than a hundred thousand YouTube and Instagram followers each, he has become a fan favorite. His main claim to fame is surfing novelty waves in bizarre locations in each of the 50 states. As well as being one of the best foam board surfers out there. He spends most of...Read More 0