Laylan From The OC Register Came By To Learn To Shape A Board!!!

A few weeks back Laylan Connelly, OC Register Writer, stopped by the shop to learn to shape her own board. She came in with no knowledge of the shaping process and very little experience working with her hands. Approximately four hours later, Laylan along with instruction from Chris Carrozza (Shaping Instructor at Foam E-Z) crafted a nice looking Fish board. After designing her own custom logo she brought the shaped blank to Tim Stamps to get the board glassed. When the board was done Laylan's next step was to take her creation out in the water. According to Laylan the board feels great she just needs some time getting used to riding a short board.

Videographer, KJ, came along to shoot Laylan's experience at the shop and the below video is the result. Thanks to everyone for all their help and thanks to girls for putting up with us during the process!

Are You a Super Shredder?

I only have one questions for you, "Are you a super shredder?" Masayoshi Takanaka is, and here's the video to prove it. We here at Foam E-Z like fun, interesting, weird, and progressive surfboards. I'm not sure how this board will surf with a big hole in the middle of it, but it's pretty rad to see the craftsmanship that went into this instrument of the ocean and stage. I personally prefer less nose rocker, but then again, I can't wail out a tune on my surfboard like Masayoshi can. Enjoy!

WE HAVE A WINNER FOR MARCH!!! Jessica James Jacques Is The Lucky Customer!

You guys killed it this month therefore we have two winners! The over all winner is Jessica James Jacques since she had the closest guess with 270 keys (actual was 272). The “Best Comment” winner is Jason Floyd for “You might want to lay off the coffee bro, you're a little keyed up!”

Jessica wins her choice of 4 hours of shaping lessons or a $100 Gift Certificate. Jason Floyd is now the proud owner of a set of Futures Fins MB1! If you guys keep the comments rolling then we’ll keep the prizes flowing, so tell your friends about Foam E-Z's Facebook Frenzy.



Don't forget it takes place at the end of each month. Make sure to check our Facebook Page between giveaways for shop, product, and sale updates.

Thanks for playing!

Foam E-Z's Facebook Frenzy For March Is On!!!

Here it is guys/gals, Foam E-Z's Facebook Frenzy is on again! It's live as of today March 26th, all you have to do to enter is go to our Facebook page and Like Us. For this months contest you have TWO tasks, one to guess how many Futures Fins keys are on the vest and two write a caption.

That's right Foam E-Z's Facebook Frenzy for March is live! Here's the rules: As before, we will pick one lucky person to win FOUR (4) FREE Hours ($200 Value) of Shape Lessons or $100 Gift Certificate good for anything at the shop (winners choice). The winner will be announced on Monday April 2nd.

We will be running this promotion the last week of every month through 2012.

Good Luck!

Is It A Mustache Or A Spokeshave?

Enjoy this video from our series, Informative Foam E-Z Product Tutorials. These videos are not only informative but they are meant to be fun too. I always thought the Mini Spokeshave looked like a mustache so this was a perfect opportunity to give it a spin!

The Mini Spokeshave was one of the original tools we carried dating way back to 1995. Back then, this tool was made by the famous X-Acto brand. That's right the same company that make the X-Acto Knives we've been using for art projects since we were kids. The Mini Spokeshave has been one of our most consistent sellers over the years, since most shapers can't live without one! Matter a fact, most professional shapers own two or three of the little buggers. They have a tendency to get lost then reappear when sweeping up the room. There really is no other tool that you get such bang for the buck. This little tool does a very big job in the surfboard shaping process.

We hope you enjoy the video. Stay tuned for more Informative Foam E-Z Product Tutorials in the weeks to come.

2nd Annual Adler Paddler This Saturday March 17th

We are proud to announce that the 2nd annual ADLER PADDLER will be back for 2012!

WHEN: MARCH 17th St. Patty’s Day 9am

WHERE: Belmont Shores, Long Beach Ca. (same spot as last year)

WHAT: A FREE 2.8 mile SUP & Prone Paddle Race/ Fun Paddle around Naples Island

WHY: To Remember our good friend Steve Adler and raise funds and awareness for the John Ritter Foundation and the Thoracic Aortic Disease Coalition

The second annual Adler Paddler is Saturday, March 17 – on St. Paddy’s Day - so mark your calendars and come out to support.

Steve Adler passed away at 40 from an undiagnosed thoracic aortic dissection two years ago. The well-known glasser who grew up in the Long Beach area was making strides in the Stand Up Paddle community when he unexpectedly collapsed while working.

Adler has a teenage son, Clark, and Steve’s mom will have a table with baked goods to raise money for his college fund. Proceeds from the paddle and raffle will go to the John Ritter Foundation. Ritter also passed away from a similar condition.

Amy Yasbeck will be at the event and will be signing copies of “WITH LOVE AND LAUGHTER,” about life with her late husband.
All books, raffles, and T-shirt sales proceed are all going directly to the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic health.

The event is a free, 2.8-mile SUP and Prone Paddle Race and fun paddle around Naples Island in Long Beach. It kicks off at 9 a.m.

Last year, nearly 90 dedicated paddlers showed up in strong winds, choppy waters and pouring rain to show support and do the paddle. Nearly $8,000 was raised.

Any questions e-mail info@thesupspot.com, or for more info go to www.PADDLEWITHPURPOSE.COM

Clark Foam Modified Hitachi Planer

Here is another video in from our series, Informative Foam E-Z Product Tutorials. In this segment we review the coveted Clark Foam Modified Hitachi Planer. This planer was first modified in the mid nineties by Clark Foam. Gordon Clark thought it was necessary to create an affordable planer specific for the surfboard shapers. Up till that time most shapers were using the Skil 100 but they were becoming more and more scarce causing the price to inflate. Over the past twenty something years the Clark Planer has been updated with different modifications a number of times. The current model was last updated in 2003 and appears to be here to stay.

This planer has become the standard for surfboard shapers around the world. It's light, affordable, functional, and has plenty of power. Check out the video and let us know if you have further questions.

WE HAVE A WINNER FOR FEBRUARY!!! Tommy Gardner Is The Lucky Customer!

It’s official, Tommy Gardner is the February, Foam E-Z Facebook Frenzy WINNER!!! His caption was as simple as "This Barrel ROCKS!!! There was a wide variety of entries, some great, some not so great, and others gave us a scary look into your freakish little minds. All in all it was fun, and it didn’t cost you guys a dime. Stay tuned in to our Facebook page throughout the month of March for daily deals/promotions, and make sure to come back the last week of March for another shot at the 4 hours of Shape Lessons or $100 Gift Certificate. See you around cyber space!

FOAM E-Z'S FACEBOOK FRENZY IS ON!!!

Foam E-Z's Facebook Frenzy is underway as of Feb 22! All you have to do to enter is go to our Facebook page and Like Us, then comment on the photo. On Wednesday Feb 29th we will pick one lucky person to win FOUR (4) FREE Hours ($200 Value) of Shape Lessons or $100 Gift Certificate good for anything at the shop (winners choice). This month it's a Caption Contest and here is the photo:

We will be running this promotion the last week of every month through 2012.

Good Luck!

Kelly Slater "Knubster" Fin - We Got Em!!!

If you want to be like Kelly or surf like Kelly you need the "Knubster" Fin by FCS. Add it to your quad set up to create a five fin like the Eleven Time World Champ rides. All it takes is to add one (1) FCS X-2 Center Plug and you're good to go! This video is interesting as Slater talks about the evolution of the fin etc... Even if you're not interested in what Kelly is saying his surfing from the 2011 Quiksilver New York is incredible to watch. If you need one we got em right here!!!

Gerry Lopez, Shaper, Surfer, Snowboarder, Ambassador!

This a pretty cool video of Gerry Lopez, Pipe Master. Even though it's a little dated as far as the snowboard contest it's a great look into Gerry's world. He talks a little history on his move to mainland and how he ended up in Oregon. Check out the stack of Clark Foam Blanks. I've been to his factory and he keeps a full inventory of blanks to fill his orders. Gerry rules Mount Bachelor just like he used to rule Pipe! What an awesome all around dude!

Professional Shape Lessons In The Foam E-Z Shape Box

You asked for it, and we listened. Professional Shaping Lessons are now available at Foam E-Z!!! We got Maui Transplant Chris Carrozza to hop in The Shape Box and give one on one lessons. We’ve been doing lessons unofficially for the past 8 months and the response has been awesome from each student. They aren’t for everyone but for those of you ready to get into shaping and need some direction, or for the novice shaper ready to bump their game, then this will benefit you. Check out the video to get a taste and feel free to hit us up with any other questions you may have.

COME HELL OR HIGH WATER MOVIE in Seal Beach This Saturday Night!!!

This Saturday January 28th, Canvas Shop is proud to present Come Hell Or High Water-The film explores the history and progression of the sport of bodysurfing and the pureness that comes from riding a wave. Shot primary in 16mm, the film takes a unique look at the culture, beauty and simplicity of the sport, capturing the stories and locations of those who belong to this community. Woodshed Films, Patagonia, and Nixon are proud to announce the world tour for Keith Malloy’s debut film project, Come Hell or High Water.

While Malloy is most widely known for his time in the water as a surfer, his exploration into the world of bodysurfing began some 10 years ago when he wanted to reconnect with the ocean and did so through bodysurfing. Said Malloy about this project, “It’s about taking a breath and kicking your feet in the big blue sea.”

Movie will start at 8, Ray Barbee plays at 7, event is free. Located at 702 Marina Dr. Seal Beach CA. www.canvasshopsb.com

Canvas Shop is a shop with a mission to make fantastic custom canvas products and to sell goods that we believe in and whose makers share our passion for craftsmanship and community. We also offer great classes and workshops, please check out our current schedule. Our storefront is our workspace, and we welcome all to come and visit and have a cup of coffee and see what we do.

Definitely go check this out if you have some time. It is an awesome shop and it will be a great time.

See you there.

RECYCLING FOAM - MARKO FOAM!!!

This is pretty cool it made the "big time" news. People have been bringing us their foam packaging and we've been getting over to Marko to make blanks. Better than it ending up in the dirt or in the ocean.

Fish Out of Water!!! Surfboard? Snowboard?

This is pretty wild! Maybe not the most functional but definitely a really cool build. It's awesome to see Doc of Surf Prescriptions get into it and shape away incorporating the snowboard into the surfboard. Dig the cool wood/carbon inlay to adhere the bindings to. That was pretty crafty! Also neat to go behind the scenes at Futures Fins with Owner/operator Vince Longo and watch them install the fin boxes. Signal Snowboards does a nice job of vacuum bagging the carbon deck on the board.

I'm sure that board was hard as hell to surf but Rob Machado sure can rip on just about anything! With all the volume it looked tough to get it to bite in the powder. This looked like a great project and the boys obviously had a great time with it.

Thanks to Surf Prescriptions, Future Fins, and Signal Snowboards for giving us a little look into the production and testing of this board.

Sean Collins - Surfline Entrepreneur

By Brad Nadell:

I'm sure by now you're all aware of the untimely death of Surfline Entrepreneur Sean Collins. Growing up as a Harbour grom in the early eighties, I had the pleasure of getting to know Sean. He was one of my local idols as I loved his smooth style and the way he carried himself. I couldn't wait till he'd come back from his Mex trips so we could look at his pictures. Subsequently, some of the photos would make it to the wall of fame at Harbour Surfboards. Sean was usually at the Harbour functions getting bombarded with forecasting questions. If I didn't see him around the shop, I would run into him surfing at the Side. Sean usually didn't have too much to say, but was always super cool to be around and whenever he did say something it was complimentary or insightful.

I remember he used to bring the early Surfline Faxes to Harbour for Rich to feed to us frothing young surfers. It was truly groundbreaking as I couldn't wrap my head around those faxes. Later in life I was lucky enough to do business with Sean as we have run ads on Surfline since it's inception. Check out this cool video I found of Sean back in the Surfline Fax era (1991).



Our best wishes go out to Sean's family, friends, and his staff.

RIP Sean

Happy 2012!!!

Happy New Year!!! Hope everyone had a safe and sane New Years Eve with lots of celebrating. Did you make a New Years Resolution? One of ours is to have more fun events at our shop. We will keep you posted as our other new resolutions come to fruition.

Thanks for the great year in 2011. We couldn't have done it without your support and patronage. Here's to great year of board building in 2012!

RIP Sean Collins and Grandma Billie

Support In Love Seal Beach

Machado Get's His Board Glassed With Entropy Resin!

2011 was a fun year for us here at Foam E-Z. We were able to talk surfboards, build some boards, play with some new tools, meet new people and…basically do what we love. We have some fun stuff lined up for 2012 in the way of new products, events, inter-web, multi-media, and graphical shenanigans. But before we let the cat out of the bag on any of that stuff, here’s a little lost footage that we just recently found from the Sacred Craft show in Del Mar in October 2011.



We met up with our buddies from Entropy Resin and got in the mix as Rob Machado was “shaping” up one of his famous Channel Island “Motor Boat” models. We thought it would be a cool idea to glass it right on the spot using Entropy Epoxy Resin and guess what?…It was! I’m sure that he’s in some exotic location with the board shredding, and wondering, “Whatever happened to those fine fellows from Foam E-Z?” Here we are, bringing you some of that lost footage and suggesting that you make a New Years resolution to try epoxy in 2012. Rob would want you to.

E-Z Square Pro Video Tutorial Starring A Famous Actor!

Enjoy my debut as the resident shaping tool aficionado! Go ahead and laugh, I know my acting doesn't compare with Brad Pitt but at least we look good on camera!



Hopefully this tutorial will ease the learning curve when using the E-Z Square Pro. In case you didn't know we recently upgraded our E-Z Square Pro to now have the ability to measure and mark toe-in on fins. Everything is done with just the one tool! All the detailed instructions are on the square in case you don't have a computer in your shape room or don't own a smart phone.

Keep your eye out for more tutorial/demonstration videos of our products to come.

Thanks for your support!

2011 Holiday Shipping Calendar!

If you can believe it the holidays are right around the corner. Hope you were good this year so you don't get coal in your stocking! Where did 2011 go????

There is only a couple of weeks to prepare so here is our Holiday Shipping Calendar just to be sure your gifts make it under the tree in time. We don't recommend waiting till the last minute but... the dates are on the calendar for that reason. If you plan to order blanks or board building kits please call to be sure they'll make it on time. In general, blank shipping takes a max of five business days but with the holidays things might get delayed. Better to be safe than sorry.

Hope everyone has the happiest of holiday season.

Thanks for your support!

Brad