Some of Jeff's Story.

Resist Surfboards started in 2003 making boards for myself and friends out of my parents garage. After a handful of boards I finally mustered up what I thought was a decent surfboard worth showing to local factories in hopes of getting a job.

I was lucky enough to get a job glassing at Walden Surfboards making long boards. With my background being in performance short boards, I got to learn a whole new spectrum of what it was to make performance long boards and classic logs.

In 2004 I opened my own glass factory and started building relationships with local shapers by glassing their boards. In 2005 Clark Foam went out of business and the other blank company, Walker Foam, was only selling to existing customers and I was fortunate to have been one of them. With people panicking to get surfboards and shapers panicking to get foam, I was filling orders and shaping my brains out. 

In 2006 I built my second factory thanks to the new corporate management group who doubled the building's rent. Unfortunately the new building was half the size and the business quickly outgrew it.

2007 was a crazy year for us. We were in our tiny factory transitioning into our current factory that had enough space for the business to grow. We were doing twenty to twenty five boards a week, building the new factory at night, and still managing to finish my bachelors degree.

By 2008 we were settled into our new factory on Tower sq. My girlfriend  Shannon Helped me frame drywall and design our factory into being a solid production facility that we needed. This was when i looked back at the past 5 years of her encouraging me to pursue doing what i love making surfboards as my full time career, I knew she was the one. I was traveling alot back then surfing and shaping, it was on a connecting flight from philipines to hong kong i knew what i had to do. I extended my layover and bought a ring and we were married in Oct later that year.

In 2009 one of the most influential surfboard companies in our industry called and asked me to finish boards for them. I took the meeting and gladly agreed to do work with them out of my factory alongside keeping my small humble label of Resist.

From then my vision for making surfboards became a 3 part company. Shaping boards for my label Resist surfboards, Ghost shaping boards for companies i look up to and respect. Along with third part and equally important, Jeff Hull Fiberglass.
 

In 2013 its rad to look at how our factory has become a community based shaping hub for local legendary shapers, rookie shapers, other local glassing companies and local rippers picking up new custom boards.  I am stoked to be able to make boards as a job with a solid crew of guys that are equally as passionate doing what they love.