There was once a time when, if you wanted to ride a surfboard, you had to build a relationship with a shaper. He was probably already your friend that knew your style as well as your quirks. Through the craft of planing down foam, your shaper listened to how you wanted the board to feel under your feet. His transformative mastery produced the physical manifestation of your vision.

It's hard not to feel sentimental about this dynamic relationship, which puts individual functional artistry in action. It's these surfer-shaper bonds that gave rise to literally every advancement in surfboard design from early noseriders through the experimentations of the shortboard revolution. Every board, every experience was crafted for the individual - to unlock the ability to explore new places on, in and above the wave.

Sometimes it can seem as though our choices have already been made for us. A browse through a well-stocked surf shop seems to confirm this. While progression has let us to the world of tenths-of-a-liter, why let a surfer and shaper you're never met have all the fun?

At Valaric Surfboards, Jordan Brazie invites us to let go of others' expectations of your surfing and allow yourself to return to the center of the experience. Drawing from the cumulation of years of trail, error, successes and failures - personal and collective - Valaric is forged from a spirit of connectedness to both your surfboard and the mind and hands that shape it.

Welcome!