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Shape like a girl, because it’s awesome. Photo: Laurent Chantegros
Surfboard building is unlike any other trade – there’s no formal training or trade schools. Hand shaping surfboards breeds a culture all its own, interconnecting generations with knowledge and tradition passed down from one to the next. Techniques are often unique to each shaper and refined over time, and eventually given to someone else to progress knowledge. Mentorships, which often spring from within intimate circles in shaping bays or sanding rooms, have mostly been a benefit of the guys-only club. It can be a tough one to break into.
Surfalorus Film Festival Returns to the Outer Banks, Seeks New Films
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The 10th Annual Surfalorus Film Festival returns to the Outer Banks September 22-25 for finals weekend at the ESA Easterns. The annual festival seeks new surf films celebrating the sport, as well as our oceans, and the bold, creative makers who bring these stories to life. Surfalorus accepts shorts, features, documentaries and any other surf-inspired films by filmmakers of all backgrounds, from anywhere on the planet.
The festival’s mission is to showcase the most talented surf filmmakers of our time. Alumni include: Cyrus Sutton, J. Brother, George Trimm, Nathan Oldfield, and a new wave of female surf filmmakers like Crystal Thornburg-Homcy, Devyn Bisson, Lauren Hill, Luca Merli, Jess Lowcher, Leah Dawson and Alena Ehrenbold.