When Kris Hall first picked up a planer as a teenager, he thought he was just making himself a new surfboard. What he didn’t realize was that he was opening up a Pandora’s box of rockers, rails and templates that would quickly come to define his life. Fast-forward a few years—and a lot of finished boards—and Kris Hall is one of the South Bay’s most dynamic young shapers, focused on reinterpreting the pinnacle designs of longboarding’s past in new and exciting ways. And in the process, he’s inserted himself into a proud lineage of surfer/shapers who realized that making surfboards with your own two hands can alter your perspective on surfing in profound and unexpected ways.