Super exciting to wind our way to Salt Culture and the Rob Machado Surf Shop and find a very cool custom board waiting for me ...

Blind Surfer Pete was in search of a new board and Rob Machado loaned him his personal custom 7’ Sunday. Rob asked for a full ...

Although neither of them could have known it then, fifteen years ago Rob Machado and Taylor Steele’s film The Drifter marked the birth of modern free surfing. Rob’s accomplishments on tour left little ...

Rob Machado did not build his latest surfboard model to be whipped around backside or launched into full rotations. But when the shoe fits like this, you might as well dance on it. And Rob’s new ...

Rob Machado needs no introduction. At one point, the lanky surfer from Cardiff-by-the-Sea was the goofyfooted, afro-touting foil to Kelly Slater on the ASP World Tour. When he veered away from ...

For passionate surfers, the call of the waves is as irresistible as the pull of the tide, and nothing can help them answer that call more promptly than a well-equipped camper van. Part roving home, ...

In 1985, a 12-year-old Rob Machado was earning his stripes at Swamis, North County San Diego’s premier righthand point. During those formative sessions, there were often two men surfing circles around ...

“It’s still a bit of a hybrid, but it’s the closest thing I’ve ever shaped to a high-performance shortboard,” Rob Machado said of his latest creation. Indeed, through Firewire and his eponymous ...

Jack Johnson returns to Santa Barbara and to the big screen on Thursday, November 6 at the Arlington Theatre to celebrate the ...