Category : Surfing
The Ultimate California Combo
October 1, 2011
— the San Gabriel Mountains are just a couple hours or so away, trafflc willing. With proper planning and a dawn-patrol start, you can surf through the morning commute, and be dropping into your first lap on Mt. Baldy before most cubicle-ites have taken lunch. Read More ...
October 1, 2011
— the San Gabriel Mountains are just a couple hours or so away, trafflc willing. With proper planning and a dawn-patrol start, you can surf through the morning commute, and be dropping into your first lap on Mt. Baldy before most cubicle-ites have taken lunch. Read More ...
Learn-to-Surf Program Starts with Indoor Training
September 12, 2011
“The pop-up clinic on Saturday was absolutely instrumental to my success in the water,” said student Libby Estelle. “I was able to pop up and actually ride a wave on my very first try in the water. The other students in my group had all attended a week-long surf camp last winter and were amazed this was my first time out. Read More ...
September 12, 2011
“The pop-up clinic on Saturday was absolutely instrumental to my success in the water,” said student Libby Estelle. “I was able to pop up and actually ride a wave on my very first try in the water. The other students in my group had all attended a week-long surf camp last winter and were amazed this was my first time out. Read More ...
Sitting Down with Jaimal Yogis
May 1, 2010
Yogis, now 30, sat down with me recently at the Java Beach Cafe in view of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. He talked about his background, how he nearly became a Buddhist monk, how he came to write his book and the effort to turn it into a film. We also discussed his evolving perceptions on surf localism, the subject of his book chapter, “Surf Nazis Have Buddha-Nature Too,” excerpted in the issue. Read More ...
May 1, 2010
Yogis, now 30, sat down with me recently at the Java Beach Cafe in view of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. He talked about his background, how he nearly became a Buddhist monk, how he came to write his book and the effort to turn it into a film. We also discussed his evolving perceptions on surf localism, the subject of his book chapter, “Surf Nazis Have Buddha-Nature Too,” excerpted in the issue. Read More ...
Surf Nazis Have Buddha-Nature
May 1, 2010
” After six months at Kalani, I figured I couldn’t live in my heavenly little A-frame forever, so I moved back to California for college classes. To keep up what Rom taught me, I went to that little college town called Santa Cruz: liberal bubble of idealism and drum circles, of health-food stores that out-number Starbucks, of really good cold waves, and, as I would soon find out, angry surfers. At first I was too tucked away to notice them. Read More ...
May 1, 2010
” After six months at Kalani, I figured I couldn’t live in my heavenly little A-frame forever, so I moved back to California for college classes. To keep up what Rom taught me, I went to that little college town called Santa Cruz: liberal bubble of idealism and drum circles, of health-food stores that out-number Starbucks, of really good cold waves, and, as I would soon find out, angry surfers. At first I was too tucked away to notice them. Read More ...
Lost Coast Pilgrims
October 20, 2009
A monotonous voice droned through my weather radio “… Buoy 6, 600 miles west of Eureka . seas 18’ at 20 seconds. ” I had been monitoring the conditions closely for the last few days for just this sort of forecast. Read More ...
October 20, 2009
A monotonous voice droned through my weather radio “… Buoy 6, 600 miles west of Eureka . seas 18’ at 20 seconds. ” I had been monitoring the conditions closely for the last few days for just this sort of forecast. Read More ...
Jamie Mitchell Shocks the Stand Up Paddling World
October 14, 2009
"Mitchell is more suited for the races in Hawai'i than in California", ". A fast prone paddler, but he won't hang with the top guys in stand up", was the online chatter posted on message boards before October 3rd, 2009. Accused of being a one- dimensional athlete, Mitchell surprised all with a stunning win, a full 4 minutes and 39 seconds ahead of waterman Chuck Patterson's winning time at the previous year's event. Read More ...
October 14, 2009
"Mitchell is more suited for the races in Hawai'i than in California", ". A fast prone paddler, but he won't hang with the top guys in stand up", was the online chatter posted on message boards before October 3rd, 2009. Accused of being a one- dimensional athlete, Mitchell surprised all with a stunning win, a full 4 minutes and 39 seconds ahead of waterman Chuck Patterson's winning time at the previous year's event. Read More ...
Zen and the Art of Surfboard Maintenance
May 1, 2009
Now with Jaimal Yogis’ new book “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea” (Wisdom Publications, 256 pages, $14. 95) the connection between the two is at last articulated, coming full-circle into the reflective light of the ocean. This breezy, coming-of-age tale is in fact a memoir, a quest for pelagic vitality and terrestrial enlightenment all rolled into the spiritual spindrift of Zen. Read More ...
May 1, 2009
Now with Jaimal Yogis’ new book “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea” (Wisdom Publications, 256 pages, $14. 95) the connection between the two is at last articulated, coming full-circle into the reflective light of the ocean. This breezy, coming-of-age tale is in fact a memoir, a quest for pelagic vitality and terrestrial enlightenment all rolled into the spiritual spindrift of Zen. Read More ...
Surf Culture’s Custodian
May 1, 2009
There, inside his San Francisco home, behind blankets that block the windows of temptation, he has toiled… From the Aaberg brothers to Zuma Beach, the 816-page “Encyclopedia of Surfing” (2003) consumed more than three years of Warshaw’s life. “Mavericks: The Story of Big Wave Surfing” (2000) begins, in its own roundabout way, with a Hawaiian riding a tidal wave, wraps in Jaws, Todos Santos, surfboard design, Mark Foo, and undersea topography, and bottoms out in the Quicksilver Contest days. The former Surfer magazine editor is also the author of, most recently, “Photo/Stoner: The Rise, Fall, and Mysterious Disappearance of Surfing’s Greatest Photographer” (2006), “Surf Movie Tonite! Surf Movie Poster Art, 1957-2005” (2005), and “Above the Roar: 50 Surfer Interviews” (1997), among others. Read More ...
May 1, 2009
There, inside his San Francisco home, behind blankets that block the windows of temptation, he has toiled… From the Aaberg brothers to Zuma Beach, the 816-page “Encyclopedia of Surfing” (2003) consumed more than three years of Warshaw’s life. “Mavericks: The Story of Big Wave Surfing” (2000) begins, in its own roundabout way, with a Hawaiian riding a tidal wave, wraps in Jaws, Todos Santos, surfboard design, Mark Foo, and undersea topography, and bottoms out in the Quicksilver Contest days. The former Surfer magazine editor is also the author of, most recently, “Photo/Stoner: The Rise, Fall, and Mysterious Disappearance of Surfing’s Greatest Photographer” (2006), “Surf Movie Tonite! Surf Movie Poster Art, 1957-2005” (2005), and “Above the Roar: 50 Surfer Interviews” (1997), among others. Read More ...
Reasonable Fear
May 1, 2008
Few others are out. Out of the corner of your eye, you see something dark break the inky green surface. A figment of fear – however unlikely, however irrational, despite the countless times you’ve heard how the real-world statistics are completely out of whack with the media hype – leaps forward and seizes your attention. Read More ...
May 1, 2008
Few others are out. Out of the corner of your eye, you see something dark break the inky green surface. A figment of fear – however unlikely, however irrational, despite the countless times you’ve heard how the real-world statistics are completely out of whack with the media hype – leaps forward and seizes your attention. Read More ...
Surfing El Salvador’s “Wild East”
May 1, 2007
That he was in just such a position struck him as surreal. But both wounds, the one on his hand and the one on the right side his face, brought him back to reality. He was lucky to be alive. Read More ...
May 1, 2007
That he was in just such a position struck him as surreal. But both wounds, the one on his hand and the one on the right side his face, brought him back to reality. He was lucky to be alive. Read More ...
