Corky Carroll: Is new technology good for surfing? It’s debatable

It looks like the surfing world is catching up with the age of technology, or maybe it’s the other way around.
Surfing, and surfboards, have always been based on equipment that was handmade and personally designed by a shaper/designer. Then, not all that long ago really, came molded boards and the “shaping machine.” The shaping machine pretty much does all the work and the shaper just has to finish the board off a little bit. They have board designs that are on computer ch