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Podcast: The Surfer's Journal presents Soundings with Jamie Brisick
Episode: Gordon "Grubby" Clark
Description: The mastermind behind large-scale production of the surfboard blank, Gordon "Grubby" Clark's pioneering of polyurethane foam in constructing the modern surfboard enabled the progression of surfing as a culture. Enthralled by materials from a young age, Clark received a combined degree in math and physics from Pomona College before working as a glasser at Hobie Surfboards and as an apprentice to Tom Blake, inventor of the surfboard fin, while splitting time between Hawaii and California. When demand for foam boards proliferated across Southern California in the late 1950s, Clark was quick to employ his background toward industrializing and streamlining...