Custom-shaping surfboards one blank at a time, Shapes4u in Point Loma's Midway District runs a solo-shaper bay on Hancock Street within San Diego's densest concentration of board-building operations. The shaping process starts with foam-blank selection and template cutting before hand-planing, pulling fiberglass cloth and polyester resin from the same marine-supply network anchored by San Diego Marine Exchange on Shelter Island Drive. Performance shortboards built for three- to six-foot surf make up the core of the catalog, with rocker, concave, and fin-box placement tuned to San Diego's reef and beach-break conditions. Each board is shaped to the rider's weight, height, and wave preference, with template dimensions adjusted after consultation rather than pulled from a fixed production mold. Surf-specific conditioning — paddling endurance, pop-up explosiveness, and rotational core strength — ties board performance to the rider's physical output, a training variable that The Fitness Squadron addresses through its home-gym and balance-board outfitting program. Wide-template fish builds with hand-foiled keel fins and custom pinline gloss coats represent the most layup-intensive commissions, requiring precision symmetry across the twin-fin layout.