Whales, dolphins, a functioning oceanic ecosystem—who needs any of that crap, amirite? What we need is more real loud noises pumping through the Atlantic Ocean like a Danzig song, deafening sea mammals from Delaware to Florida. A[...]
Ed. note: We recently ran a piece from Features Editor Justin Housman (“We Shall Fight on the Beaches, We Shall Fight in the Courts) in which he argues that new challenges to the California Coastal Act by wealthy landowners seeki[...]
Politics, huh? Aren’t they a wonderful way to bring us together? Just a nice, cordial, civil way to discuss our different ideas about how our society should function, while respecting each other’s opinions. Sure, there migh[...]
Can you name the best baseball player on earth? If not, don't feel bad. Mike Trout is[...]
I write you today hopelessly buried beneath a stack of surf mags and DVDs from the '8[...]
Today, it’s very windy. I’m watching whitecaps toss and churn beneath the[...]
It’s awfully hard to fault the Ziffs—owners of the WSL and, presumably, s[...]
Can you imagine making the call to start running heats again at the Margaret River Pro at this point? Would you want that level of responsibility? Two shark attacks in one day, damn near the contest zone, sketchy footage of a shark in [...]
Can you imagine making the call to start running heats again at the Margaret River Pro at this point? Would you want that level of responsibility? Two shark attacks in one day, damn near the contest zone, sketchy footage of a shark in [...]
Halfway through a film festival at the Santa Cruz Patagonia store, a man handed me a [...]
Ever since the first footage was released of Kelly's Wave, the most important technol[...]
This is a very good day to go surfing. Most days are, to be sure, but it’s espe[...]
Imagine this, for a moment: flawless, eight-foot Honolua Bay, turquoise barrels spinn[...]
The 2017 WCT kicks off this week with SO MANY QUESTIONS: Will Facebook save pro surfi[...]
Of all the quirks that make up the inexplicable delights of our strange little surf world, the romance of the custom-built surfboard might be the most cherished quirk of all. I don’t really know if the market backs up that claim [...]
Because we won’t be satisfied until the entire surface of the earth has been rendered in a never-ending pursuit to greedily dig up things that can be burned for fuel or hammered into profitable metals regardless of the consequen[...]