Becker Surf News Today

Personal and business friends gathered from throughout Southern California Saturday at the Hermosa Beach pier for a paddleout in memory of Becker Surf founder…

By Kevin Cody Dave Hollander’s first surf job was at the Bing Surfboard factory on Surfboard Row (Cypress Avenue) in Hermosa Beach.

Becker Surfboards co-founder Dave Hollander is remembered by surf industry retailers, buyers, sales reps, and friends.

E-bike tipping point Dear ER: I had just returned from the desert Sunday, and was working in my garage when I heard yelling and screaming. When I peered out…

By Mike Purpus “In 1969, I asked Phil Becker, who was shaping for Rick Stoner, to shape me a blank,” Hermosa Surfer Walk of Fame 2023 inductee Steve Mangiagli…

Hermosa Beach plans to remove a cargo container from the beach where the Hermosa Surf Camp has stored boards for two decades.

Hermosa Beach surfer Sara Kohrogi aspires to emulate her grandfather, a Japan Baseball Hall of Famer, in opening up Japanese surfing to the world by Kevin Cody…

By Kevin Cody During a party last month for Hermosa’s newly elected council members, a Strand resident complained to Police Chief Paul LeBaron that e-bikes…

Becker, Eaton shaped surfing SHARE Mike Eaton (far left) and Phil Becker (in straw hat) with fellow Peninsula surfers, Eddie Clark, Ricky Burns, Richie Clark, Jared Eaton and Frankie Shinn at the end with the zinc oxide nose. The picture was taken at Bluff Cove by May Clark, Eddie’s wife, around ‘54 or ‘55, according to the Eatons’ sister Ann (Eaton) Medve. Photo courtesy of Steve Mangiagli Phil Becker and Mike Eaton grew up on the Peninsula to become two of the most prolific ...

Phil Becker (in the straw hat) and Jared Eaton holding up their $5 Tom Blake kook box. Others in the photo are (left to right) Mike Eaton, Eddie Clark, Ricky Burns, Richie Clark, and Frankie Shinn at the end with the zinc oxide nose. The picture was taken by May Clark, Eddie’s wife, around ‘54 or ‘55, according to the Eatons’ sister Ann (Eaton) Medve. Photo courtesy of Steve Mangiagli by Kevin Cody Phil Becker was the most prolific and most under celebrated surfboard shaper in h...