SPEAK YOUR MIND! What's Your Ideal Wave Size?
In this edition of SPEAK YOUR MIND! SurferMag.com asks readers, "What's Your ideal wave size?"
JACK IS BACK
Jack Johnson Returns With Sleep Through The Static
For those of you chomping at the bit to hear surfing's most acclaimed musician's latest album, wait no more.
OAKLEY PRO JUNIOR: Local, Lincoln Taylor, Defeats Julian Wilson
You couldn't have dreamed up a better final day for the Oakley Pro Junior at North Stradbroke Island today. Six-foot conditions were some of the best Queensland, Australia has seen in a year and the morning heats surfed better waves than any WCT contest last year.
MONSTER PANCHO
Sullivan Wins the Monster Pro at Pipeline
Hawaii's Pancho Sullivan wiped out the opposition to claim his second Monster Energy Pipeline Pro, presented by Billabong, at Backdoor Pipe today in barreling waves of six to eight feet (wave face heights).
COASTAL COMMISSION VOTES TO SAVE TRESTLES
TCA Dealt Major Body Blow
A series of heated shouting matches kicked off the 9am meeting. "Build the Road! Build the Road! Build the road!" yelled hundreds of paid members of the Local Labor Union 652. "Save Trestles! Save Trestles! Save Trestles!"
WHERES WARDO?
Chris Ward Withdraws From First World Tour Stop
ASP World Tour surfer Chris Ward has relinquished his spot in the first event of the year, the 2008 Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast, to replacement surfer Nic Muscroft.
MONSTER PRO LURKS ON
Pray For Surf
With the surf just hinting at existence and a (surprise-surprise) 'blip' of a swell catching the inside reef, Jamie "Pipe" O'Brien presented the hard core beach crowd with a short seminar on stuffing your body into waist-high soup cans.
HIGHER MORAL GROUND
Op/Ed on The Trestles Toll Road
I won't sell the San Mateo creek down the river, and neither should you. Opposing the 241 Foothills South Toll Road is a pretty easy decision for a surfer, especially in light of three crucial questions:
HANDS ON
10 Questions w/ M-10 Shaper Geoff Rashe
Santa Cruz's Geoff Rasch crafts high quality surfboards under his M10 label. Since we sometimes appear SoCal centric in our subject matter, we thought it appropriate to touch base with the man behind the 10 for a quick 10 questions regarding the state of the surfboard industry in NorCal.
MONSTER ENERGY PRO
Centeio Seizes the Day
The day finished like it started: waves every few minutes, a ton of wind chop where you didn't want it and a draining tide that kept everyone looking down for those rail road tie reef heads that were gurgling just short of the surface.
SUPER SURFBOARDS
Grom-Heroes Launch Their New Board Company
Super Surfboards, an upstart headed by grom-heroes Dion Agius, Clay Marzo, Kolohe Andino, and Tosh Townend, plants a cog in the surfboard company business model. For SUPER Surfboards, the boards are all about the surfers.
MONSTER ENERGY PRO
Day One Ignites
On day 4 of the waiting period for the Monster Energy Pipeline Pro - presented by Billabong - officials elected take a page out of the recently completed Pipeline Master's playbook, offering a smallish 4 ft. swell to the competitors with the option of Pipe lefts, Backdoor.
DANE WILLIAMS RIP
Hurley Employee Found Dead
Our hearts go out to Dane Williams and his family after the young professional, working in Hurley's Marketing Department was found deceased after the Action Sports Retail Convention in San Diego, CA.
SURFING CHANGED FOREVER
Bustin' Down the Door Unhinges In Santa Barbara
During the winter of 2006/2007 Shaun Tomson was on the North Shore, working on a documentary. He had a crew around him a lot of the time, ate at Lele's a lot and seemed to be having a good time. When anyone asked him what the doco was about, he said, The seventies.
HOT 100 NEWS:
Tahitian Tamaroa McComb Blasts Australian Young Guns at Pro Junior
A relatively unknown Tahitian, 16-year-old Tamaroa McComb, stole the show away from Australia's top under-20 surfers .
HEATH LEDGER PASSES
Aussie Surfer Found Dead In Apartment
On Tuesday afternoon Australian actor, Heath Ledger, was found dead in a New York City Apartment.
SEALED TIGHT
Wet Glass Provides Production Facilities for Vacuum Bagged Surfboards
In the summer of 2006 Wes Lakey had an epoxy epiphany. Lakey, a San Diego surfer and composite expert with a background in the aerospace and automobile industry, walked into a surf shop just as the shop manager stared blankly at $6,000 worth of brand new longboards - all ruined-shriveled and disfigured beyond repair, the result of misguided use of epoxy resin.
NELSCOTT NASTINESS
Oregon Tow In Comp, Cold and Bold
The third annual Nelscott Reef Tow In Classic was held this weekend in perfect conditions off the Oregon Coast.
RICHARD WOOLCOTT Q&A: Wooly Addresses Volcom's Acquisition of Electric
Richard Woolcott, CEO and Founder of Volcom, speaks about Volcom's recent acquisition of Electric Visual and what's currently happening in the surf industry.
BODY SURFING PT. 2
Key Stretches For Healthy Surfing
Formerly, we thought of stretching as a way to lengthen muscles, create blood flow, and prepare the body to move. But doctors have found that that the brain controls every function of the body, including muscle flexibility.