Born from foam.
Built for more fun.
Formula Fun grew out of three generations of American foam manufacturing and one simple belief: learning and performance should not be opposites.
Remember why you got in the water.
Surfing can get serious fast. The lineup, the equipment, the pressure to progress. Formula Fun exists to put the play back into it.
The point is not to take less care with the board. It is to take a little less pressure into the session.
It started with
a packaging problem.
Three generations, one family, and a material that kept finding new jobs to do. From protecting electronics, to surfboard blanks, to finished boards.
A packaging problem, solved by hand
Don and Sally Peterson founded Marko after Don ran into a problem in the electronics industry: the available packaging was not protecting the products he needed to ship. He began molding and fabricating foam himself.
Ty joins the family business
Their son Ty joined full-time. Ty loved surfboards, and saw that Marko's foam expertise could be used to make surfboard blanks.
A specialized line of molded EPS blanks
Marko launched its surfboard-blank line. Today Marko Blanks is a global industry leader serving respected shapers and surfboard brands around the world.
Marko Blanks became a global industry leader.
Coby joins the business
Don's grandson Coby Peterson joined as the third generation of the family in the company, and later led global surfboard-blank sales.
Born inside the Marko family
Formula Fun made its public debut. Not a partnership, but a brand born inside the same family, manufacturing experience and curiosity about what foam could do on the water.
Built on generations of Marko foam knowledge.
The platform widens
The bodyboard came next, and the Rubicon wakesurf board followed in 2021. Same materials thinking, two new kinds of water.
The three-piece SUP
After more than eight years of development, the Tahoe arrived. It delivers the stable, rigid-board-style experience paddlers want, then breaks into three sections for easier transport and storage. Without a pump.
A different kind
of foam board.
Ty Peterson and the Marko team applied their materials knowledge to the finished board. Formula Fun made its public debut in 2017 with a different proposition: build a foam board around the shape, rails, traction and fin system that make a surfboard perform, then preserve the durability and approachability that make a foam board fun to own and learn on.
That construction became a platform, not a one-off product.
Shape first
The board is built around the shape, rails and traction that make it perform.Foam that lasts
Molded closed-cell foam keeps the durability that makes a foam board fun to own.A platform, not a product
The construction became something we could adapt, sport by sport.Different boards for
different water.
It started with surfboards. Then the same materials thinking moved into a bodyboard and a wakesurf board, and finally into the Tahoe. The boards are not identical in construction. They share a molded closed-cell foam and materials platform, adapted to each sport.
Since 2017Surf
Where it started: foam surfboards in shapes and sizes for different riders and sessions.Shop Formula Fun boards2020–21
20212025No secret handshake
required.
You don't need a surf dictionary, a decade of history at one break, or someone's permission to have a good time on the water. Show up, paddle out, have fun.
Email Formula FunAnyone can start
Beginner, returning after ten years, or borrowing your kid's board. All fine.No jargon test
You don't have to know every detail about rails or rocker to buy a good board.Ask us anything
Send a note before you buy. No question is too basic.Have fun
That's the whole reason the board exists.Make it well.
Use it fully.
Bring it back.
Formula Fun boards are made in the USA through the Marko Foam manufacturing family. When your board reaches the end of its useful life, contact us before sending it anywhere. We'll confirm whether the current take-back program applies and share the next step.
Use the board fully. Then ask us about the current return path.
Check the current take-back programStart with an email.
Send photos and your location first. We'll confirm eligibility and the current return instructions before you move the board.Not sure where to start?
Answer a few questions about where you ride and we'll help narrow the Formula Fun lineup.
Performance matters.
Fun is the point.
Learn comfortably. Progress confidently. Share the board. Try a new shape. Fall off. Paddle back out. However you ride it, remember why you started.