ESP Surfboards Australia

In a world where mass production and pop-outs from Asian countries abound it’s refreshing to see someone still following tradition and living the dream as a surfer/shaper.

“I personally chose to manufacture my boards using Australian workers and materials. Mass production is not my scene, but producing professionally made surfboards of A1 quality is. Here at ESP we are proud of what we do and as a group of Australian surfers we have never embraced the propaganda pushed in the surf media by companies owned by overseas dollars promoting Asian surfboards.

The fantastic shapers and craftsmen I learned from and worked with were all at one time master surfer/shapers, Terry Richardson, Frank Latta, Michael and Tom Peterson, Kevin Parkinson, Carl Schaefer, John Skipp, Ben Shaw, Tom Storey and Ralph Riddell."

Ed has dedicated his life to surfing and to the construction surfboards. He has worked for many well-known labels like ESP, Skipp, Gordon and Smith, Beachstreet, Law, Fluid Foils, 2481 and Michael Peterson Surfboards. Ed is also one of the few shapers world wide to be invited to shape under the banner of the Hawaiian premier surfboard labels of Lightening Bolt and Hawaiian Island Creations.