Johnny Cabianca knows surfboards. For the past 35 years, he's been mowing foam and studying the art from São Paolo to Zarautz, Spain, via Sunset Beach and Santa Cruz. With his encyclopedic knowledge of the intricacies of modern surfboard shaping and production, Johnny has worked with the best and is, as Matt Biolos puts it, "He's as good as anyone, only nobody knew that."
But people should know. Johnny started shaping boards for a talented young man on his home beach in Maresias, Brazil. It soon became apparent that this boy was more than just talented; Gabriel Medina would become world champion. The rest is history: a legendary match that takes us to 2016 and the beginning of a new era with a brand new shaping facility in the Basque Country.
