On Sept. 10, the San Diego Surfing Hall of Fame held its annual induction ceremony at Mission Bay Boat & Ski Club.

Rob Machado, Surf Ranch, skeleton suits, and the Grateful Dead. Photo: Todd Glaser/Mountains on the Moon The Deadheads have arrived. They’ve crash landed in Las Vegas, stormed the strip, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...