After letting me borrow his own personal Sunday board from @firewiresurfboards, Rob sent me down to his surf shop for this ...

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 ...

Alright, look. When a style icon and surfing demigod like Rob Machado posts his new favorite shoe, I pay attention. I loved ...

Machado was born in a Sydney hospital to Jim and Chris Machado, a California surfer and British student who had met at an Australian ski lodge in the mid ’60s. Rob’s father, Jim, who had grown ...

Rob Machado’s life is no longer all about riding the perfectwave, outdoing his fellow surfers in the water and winning everycompetition he enters. Instead, the lifelong Cardiff resident ...

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 ...

For Rob Machado, the surf is almost always up and the sound of music is almost always cresting nearby. The synergy between these two pursuits has been a constant for the San Diego-bred internationa… ...

Rob Machado will remember 2001 as the year his dream of becoming a world champion crumbled like a sand castle drying under the summer sun. But it’s also the year he discovered that a surfer with ...

SD Loyal-themed custom surfboards, shaped by Rob Machado and Chris Clark with Shaper Studios, will be auctioned off to benefit environmental cleanup projects.

As the sport of surfing recently reached a new milestone by making its Olympics debut in Tokyo, thoughts turned to the legends of the sport, icons like Rob Machado who paid their dues and spent ...