SHAPING 101

“Surfer Magazine” says every surfer must watch “Shaping 101” at least once. Carl Ackerman's award winning “Shaping 101” has World Famous Boardmaker John Carper of JC/Hawaii as your personal shaping instructor. John's 40 years of professional shaping experince and his natural ability as a teacher made him the logical choice for this groundbreaking instructional.

“Shaping 101” starts with the tools you need and how to use them. JC shows you how to make a tool that he and Dave Parmenter invented to insure that your rails have the correct angle on the “tucked under edge”. John then shows you how to select a blank followed by a lesson on templating and then step by step intructs the viewer how to make the rough blank into a refined shape ready to fiberglass. The teaching includes graphics to make the concepts easy to understand. You will learn how to shape surfboards the right way, quickly and efficiently.

“Shaping 101” includes tons of incredible surfing footage of the JC Hawaii team getting slotted all over the world making it a top notch surfing film as well. The soundtrack has blues great Roy Buchanon and hot rock tracks from Earl's Son and Mercy House.

At 96 minutes you'll surely feel that this program is money well spent.

96 minutes
$30 - $2 below retail

GLASSING 101

“Glassing 101” is the industry standard and only instructional film which teaches professional laminating, hotcoating and sanding.

Learn to fiberglass surfboards at the state of the art JC Hawaii surfboard factory. John Carper’s top notch tradesmen teach you step by step how to waterproof the board, glass on fins, leash plugs and sand the right way.

This program is hosted by John Carper and made by Carl Ackerman. A second betacam was mounted on the ceiling giving the student a top view of laminating and hotcoating, making it easy to quickly learn techniques .

Expect to learn everything you need to know to get that shaped blank into the water, making Glassing 101 the perfect match to Shaping 101.

Awesome surfing footage is included of the JC Hawaii surf team ripping worldwide.

80 minutes
$30 - $2 below retail

AIRBRUSHING 101

Airbrushing 101 is the final tape in the JC Trilogy on building surfboards and is the industry standard and only video available teaching surfboard graphics.

Learn to paint flames, sunbursts, and other advanced graphics. Airbrushing 101 teaches how to paint a board to look like Balsa wood called “Falsa” and also how to master the art of using paint pens.

Veteran airbrusher Wade Easterling previously of “Gerry Lopez Surfboards” teaches the viewer what airbrushes to use, how to use them and airbrush maintenance. Watch three other top artists as they paint incredible designs and learn from them step by step.

This video contains incredible surfing footage of the JC Hawaii team and also the Quicksilver “Men Who Ride Mountains” contest at Maverick’s making it a top notch surf film as well.

An incredible soundtrack is included featuring top notch Christian bands such as Olivia, The Lively Hearts, Fight The Bully, Skanabata and Off The Record.

90 minutes
$30 - $2 below retail