Waxing a surfboard seems like it should be easy enough. Grab a bar of your favorite smelling wax from your local surf shop, rub it up and down the deck, then go shred . . . but it’s not exactly that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Waxing a board is part of surfing ritual. Could even be a transcendent experience to some, depending on how seriously you take the ...

Surf wax first gained popularity in 1935 when Los Angeles native Alfred “Al” Gallant Jr. applied liquid floor wax to the deck of his board and found that it greatly improved his stability. Ever since, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I stood in the pre-dawn cold, hoodie drawn tight, checking my local for signs of life. As I pondered whether I should paddle out ...

Saba Surf and its distinctive homemade surf wax is riding a wave of popularity with surfers in Southern California and beyond. “Everyone … loves (our surf wax),” said Gal Tshnieder, who cofounded the ...

Just a note to those of you who read me but don’t surf: We use wax on the top of our boards to keep us from slipping off. It’s not like on skis where you use it on the bottoms to go faster. OK, just ...

Today, I thought it would be fun to revisit the topic of surf wax. I did this some years ago, probably before most of you were reading me, and perhaps even before some of you were born. I get asked ...

You may not realize it, but modern surfing, with its ultra high-performance maneuvers, owes a big debt to how your great-grandparents canned fruits and vegetables. Throughout the early decades of the ...

Waxing a surfboard seems like it should be easy enough. Grab a bar of your favorite smelling wax from your local surf shop, rub it up and down the deck, then go shred . . . but it’s not exactly that ...

Waxing a board is part of surfing ritual. Could even be a transcendent experience to some, depending on how seriously you take the pre-surf set-up. Which poses the question – how do you wax your board ...