01 — Where It Started
Chasing waves,
not a career.
I'm Senta, a young girl and a big travel junkie before anything else. I learned to surf in Brazil, and once I could stand up, I just kept going — board under my arm through South America, then working my way up through Latin America, chasing whatever swell I could find.
Years of borrowed boards, local shapers, and beach-town surf shops long before I ever thought about building my own.
Shaper House, Biarritz — where I learned all of this.
02 — Learning The Craft
I didn't learn
to shape alone.
A shaper house in the South of France took me in and taught me the craft properly — how to shape, what actually matters in a blank, and, first of all, whether a four-point tail was even anatomically possible on a surfboard before we tried to build one.
That's still how it works today: they pre-shape the foam blank in the South of France, using years of hands-on knowledge I don't have yet. From there, the board comes to me — I finish the shape and handle every part of the design myself.
From Blank To Board
Quick note: I've ordered and labeled these based on the usual shaping sequence — let me know if any step is out of order or needs a different caption.
03 — The Result
The locals named
it for us.
Named by the locals in Biarritz who watched it come together — not by us. The name just stuck: the Rocket.
Tech sales pays the bills — that's still my day job. But shaping and creating boards is the thing that actually makes my heart happy, and the reason Sharks Global exists at all.
