Soul Performance

This place is full of goodies and Mark is top-​notch. Me and my friends will be coming here for all of our skate & surf needs.

Mark was a very helpful and great person i was interested in a new longboard and he helped me pick the right one he gave me great tips and advice love my new board definitely should check out this local skate shop

AMAZING! I can’t thank Mark enough for helping me and hooking me up with all of my surf needs. Not only does Soul Performance have all the best gear and best prices, but Mark is what truly sets this shop apart as the best. The time he spent with me, the wisdom advice, knowledge and passion he shares, it’s just incredible and invaluable. I highly recommend Soul Performance! 5 stars and beyond! Thank you Mark!

Thanks Mark for helping me today. Great customer service. Forgot to tell your colleague thanks for sharing his experience with your custom board. I didn’t mean to come off rude. Was in a rush. Good to know that you can custom make any board with budget in mind and have the best quality. I had to run so thanks again for quick service and your surfer helper.

Mark and Cheryl are great people/​business owners and are very compassionate about surfing among other things. I recently picked up a custom surfboard constructed by Mark and love it! He makes the board design a collaborative effort and is always willing to answer questions about how measurements and different components of the board affect its performance. Parking is a piece of cake in the big lot behind the shop. I’d recommend Soul Performance for all your surfing needs.

This place is awesome, Mark is super nice and really knows his stuff. He put a glass on leash loop on my longboard, it looks flawless. Highly recommend this place.

The shop has exactly what you need if you’re looking for a great board. Mark is amazing. He fixed a busted fin box for me, along with a few other issues with my board. Came out GREAT! His workmanship if amazing! Definitely going to come back for any repair jobs. Just an all around great place, with great vibes and great work.

I had a great experience with Mark at Soul Performance board shop! I called on a Thursday afternoon 30 minutes before closing to see if he had a specific long board deck that I was looking for, sure enough he had the deck and even kept the shop open an extra 20 – 30 minutes past normal closing hours so I could get the deck that night. I got all the skate accessories that I needed at a fair price. Overall very satisfied with the customer service and my experience, Thanks again Mark!

This shop is awesome. But what makes it so great isn’t it’s perfect location. It’s not the great selection of boards, accessories, and everything you can find there. It’s not the competitive pricing. Plainly put its the owner Mark. This guy is a down to earth honest guy living the life we’re all secretly jealous of. He loves what he does and is good at it. That’s the reason you can walk in as an inexperienced customer and not only feel comfortable asking questions but instead feel as though you’ve know mark and have been shopping here for years after spending 15 minutes talking to him.
I went to another shop needing new wheels and ended up buying a whole new longboard set up, which I don’t regret, but I still needed new wheels for my current t board. I explained my situation and my thoughts on what I was needing and he filled in the gaps with thorough explanations of trade offs of each aspect of wheels. Center vs offset, wide vs narrow, soft vs hard, so on and so forth. We BSed for a bit and I was on my way with new wheels, bearings, and spacers. I mounted the wheels up and it was an instant milestone in working towards the perfect set up. The wheels made a vast difference. So of course I went back a few days later.
This time I just had to get the extra set of bearings I left laying on the counter. But again found myself BSing with Mark. He not only remembered me but remembered irrelevant info such as what I did for a living I mentioned last time. There’s days I don’t even know what I do for a living. He really pays attention to his customers. So this time we talk trucks, he explains the design differences between the most popular trucks and describes how this translates to how they ride and scenarios where each excels. So even though I had no intention of buying trucks, I now knew enough to feel well enough prepared to try a set of new trucks to see this difference for myself. I look forward to going back.

Mark and staff are awesome! As a somewhat newbie I had a lot of questions. Mark was not only happy to answer them he was genuinely excited to help. He even stay an hour after closing to help me get the right fitting wetsuit. I am a customer for life.

Picked up a new pintail deck from these guys. Mark put on the wheels from my broken board and onto this new longboard within minutes. I’m very happy with my purchase from this friendly shop! Thanks!

So my husband has been asking for a surfboard for awhile now so I decided that was what I was going to get him for Christmas. After doing some research, you come to realize these things are not cheap so I wanted to go the used route. I found this place on Unilocal and it had great reviews.
I called him on a Friday, gave him my husband’s stats and he told me what I needed and that he had two used in stock. I thought my truck with the roof rack was going to be out of the shop but it wasn’t so I went over with my mom’s Prius a week later. I left with a 10′ board strapped to the top of a Prius with a soft rack (that I bought there), a leash, and some wax. Mark was great, he even gave me a detailed demonstration on how to use the soft rack.

Great shop! Super friendly and helpful when you have zero clue about what sort of skateboard to buy a pre-​teen!

My hubby and I walked into this shop on a rainy day, just to check things out and see if we could learn about the boards shaped in this shop. We met with Mark, the owner/​shaper. He was the only guy in the shop, and he was really cool.
They have a lot of surfboards, skateboards, kite surfing equipment… if you can surf it, Mark’s got the equipment for it. My hubby spoke to Mark for a long while learning about SoCal surfing, what the best boards are for the SoCal breaks, and the where the cool breaks are at. It was a great visit, and you can custom order boards, which Mark shapes himself. It’s pretty cool to meet the shaper and talk surfing with him.

If you’re looking for surfboards, look no further. This place is great. Great prices, great service, great products. I’ve been in here about four times now and always leave happy. The owners are extremely nice and seem very happy to give advice or just talk about the waves. Mark can actually make you a custom board for less than most places charge for a cookie cutter design.

This place rocks! We went to 5 places prior and none had what we needed. This place had everything man

I have passed this surf shop 100+ on my way to the beach during the ‘dawn patrol’ hours so this shop has always been closed. Well I finally passed this shop in the afternoon and was pretty stoked to see it open and knew I Had to stop and so glad I did.
Soul Performance is located in the downtown portion of Redondo Beach and is located right next to the Redondo Beach Post Office. If you are reading this review and looking for Soul Performance look for the business with the surfing stickers on their front window.
I walked into this shop for the first time and met Mark who is the owner /​operator /​surfboard shaper. I got to speaking to Mark and found him to be a truly genuine surfer /​skater who truly is living the dream. Before I knew it Mark and I who were total strangers only minutes ago were now rapping about skating & surfing and the importance of the vibe /​right mindset behind it all.
Mark took me on a tour of Soul Performance and I was quite impressed. Soul Performance sells everything from skateboards, to trucks, to wheels, to surfboards (hand shaped on site by Mark), to SUP paddle boards, to safety equipment for skating & you can even build your own scooter from scratch (all parts available at Soul Performance from the ground up). Of course you can also find hats, various clothing, surfboard wax and various cool little stickers that are unique to surf shops.
I really dug the vibe of this spot. I really dug Mark’s energy and I really dig seeing an independent surf shop operating in the world of big franchises that have popped up what seems like everywhere. To me surfing is about the vibe and riding a board that was popped out of a machine takes away energy from that board. The boards that are hand shaped to me are much different. You share a connection with the shaper and the energy that he or she put into making that board and you take a piece of that with you every time you step into the liquid.
There is no question after popping in and seeing Soul Performance first hand I will be buying all of my wax and other needs from Mark at Soul Performance and so should you=)

What a great shop! I highly suggest for all of your surfing/​skating needs! Plus you can buy TUFMED here, a natural organic topical treatment for bruises and wounds!

I had a few dings in both my boards and i took them in to see how much it would cost. It was very reasonable and mark was very helpful and a big help. He also placed the racks on my car to carry my boards!
Great people and great place! I highly recommend this to anyone who has any dings in their board.

Surf lessons were worth every penny! The guys from the shop were fantastic teachers! Great time… you definitely won’t regret getting lessons from here!

Incredible service. Incredible people.
Mark is the owner and he’s extremely nice and very knowledgeable. He’s been shaping surfboards for several years plus he’s had the shop for a while.
The shop itself doesn’t have the hugest selection of clothing, but for surfboards and skateboards… great selection of everything.
Great place to take your board in for any ding repairs and they usually work pretty fast. I took a board in for repairs and was quoted a week, they were done in 5 days. Right before a swell too!

After ten months in Redondo Beach and the day before we departed for Texas, Mark hustled to locate a classic Onion Head fabulous surfboard for us! A classic ’75 VW and the surfboard are our souvenirs from our delightful time in California~
THANK YOU, MARK!!!

I was originally in the Redondo Beach area to look at used surf boards at ET Surf shop. Although their stock of used boards were impressive, I wasn’t able to find anything that suited my tastes and needs.
Since I was already in the beach area, I decided to hop onto Unilocal and look for nearby surf shops. The shop on top of the list was Soul Performance. It already had great a great rating, and it was only a few minutes away, so I decided to stop by.
When I entered the store, Mark, the owner, showed me some of the boards he had in the store. He didn’t have too many used boards, so he advised me that Craigslist/​eBay would be my best bet. After telling me that, he told me that he also fixes boards and would give me a decent deal on repairs.
A few weeks later, I found a board and e-​mailed Mark inquiring about repair prices. He got back to me within the same day, and advised me to stop by on the weekend so he can asses the damages in person. The board I brought had extensive damages on the nose, tail, and on one of the rails — not to mention there were numerous dings on the board. He counted up all the damages, gave me a discount, and priced the damages at around $ 180. I had already spent $ 200 on my board, and I thought a total $ 380 was a fair price to pay for a vintage Surf Hawaii board. (I’ll upload a before and after picture of the damages and repairs, so you can make your own assessment.)
I think this is a great store. Mark is very personable, attentive, listens to your needs, and I’m all for supporting a local business. Not to mention, when I picked up my board, I met surfing legend Jay Adams!

I wanted to take a lesson on how to surf but didn’t know where to start. I gave an experienced surfer a list of 5 shops /​instructors for opinions, he singled out Soul Performance as his choice. By the end of today’s lesson, I was very impressed.
Mark gave me a ride in his surfing mobile to the beach — we got changed and Mark went into detail on the mechanics of wave and how to navigate them with efficiency and grace.
I have very limited experience in ocean swimming, but Mark’s instructions were clear and concise. He would demonstrate the steps it takes to go past the waves like the pros then encourage me to do the same. Before I knew, we were floating in calmer water. We took the current back to the beach and did it over again. This time it went better, but my endurance was dropping so we focused on practicing the techniques he taught me earlier instead of going further with board techniques.
Mark is a great instructor, for his instructions are easy to follow, and his way of teaching erased alot of my fears about the ocean (today we have heavier swells due to a storm to the south of here, but good instruction turned what could be a impossible task into a relatively easy one), and his ability to spot my areas of improvements gave me ideas on what I need to practice to progress at surfing.
I am now able to practice on my own and get more experience, before going back to Mark for more expert pointers!