Before the invention of the mercury barometer, trying to come close to accurately predicting tomorrow’s weather was left to history and experience of the current conditions. Today with satellites, shipping lanes, computer models and other techno advancements, making more accurate weather predictions…
As we recently said in our Bells Beach preview, Taj Burrow is probably the most consistent surfer of the last decade besides Kelly Slater. Unfortunately for Burrow, his career happened to coincide with the age of Slater and Andy Irons. Otherwise, he would have won a world title by now. His rookie year,…
Honolulu’s Cayla Moore, 14, captured the biggest win of her young surfing career at Ian Walsh’s 9th Annual Menehune Mayhem at Ho’okipa Beach Park, Maui. The victory in the 12-14 Girls division was no walk in the park for the younger sister of reigning ASP Women’s World Champ Carissa Moore. This was…
Like so many people are learning to do in this compromised economy, Jed Noll knows how to wear multiple hats all at once. It’s just that his extra hats just happen to be a lot cooler than everybody else’s. He hasn’t had to pick up an after-hours waitering job or stoop to ding repair to […]
The solid 8-foot Christmas swell that hit Australia’s Gold Coast was a welcome relief for wave-starved surfers suffering from tiny Southern Hemisphere summer conditions. Snapper Rocks, Kirra, and Burleigh pumped for the first time in months. But while surfers reveled in the conditions, organizers…
It’s been hot, but there have been moments of relief. Australia’s kind of like that. The talent showed up around Coolengatta early, before the Breaka Burrleigh Pro, and there were a few sessions over the hill at D-Bah and even Kirra had a couple waves. Gallery In two weeks time the surf world’s…
Puerto Rico? Nobody thinks about the Caribbean until those frosty fronts come swinging out of Canada in December.
Text here Nathan Fletcher is the guy that stays in the water after dark. He paddles out when it’s windy and there are three-foot waves at State Park in San Clemente, Calif., or when it’s 25-foot and freezing in Half Moon Bay.
La Jolla’s Windansea beach is hallowed ground in the surf realm. The sport took root here in the forties, with surfers like Peter Parkin, Bob Simmons, and Woody Ekstrom. The next generation made their presence known at Waimea, Sunset, and Pipeline.
We’ve seen the next generation asert themselves on the ASP World Tour as of late, and now it would appear that’s trickling over to standup paddling. Over the weekend 17-year-old Connor Baxter took out a heady field in the Battle of the Paddle, an event that’s become the gold standard for the SUP set.