checking out Jacobs’ review of the recent Hurley extravaganza at Trestles..
and the exquisite finals’ surfing of Mr’s Slater and Burrows..
reminded me of how far we’ve come..or not..since this meeting between Curren and Occy..22 years ago.
Check out how difficult it would have been to surf those waves at Bells ..shifty semi close outs…kind of like […]

Forget Phelps, Bolt, Federer, Woods, Kobe, or Jingjing… Kelly Slater, on pure dominance and difficulty, is way above the fray. Surfing, given all the variables involved (most of which are outside the participant’s control), is perhaps one of the hardest things on this Earth to master. I grew up in the ocean and have […]

A Space In Time

New site in the works.

Flipping through the Calendar section of the LA Times today, I noticed a small ad for a film entitled Shelter. Doubly noticeable was the image in the ad of two surfers standing on the beach. Curious, I went and checked out the trailer…

Hello! There’s a curveball thrown, and a strike by […]

A friend of ours sent us a link to this petition concerning Rip Curls attempt to gain government approval for an ASP event in August 2008 at “Tombies” at Gnarloo. Here’s the email he sent:
Dear Friends:
I have blind link emailed about 100 of you to sign a petition to keep Rip Curl from having […]

six years and counting

Saw this photo of Slater coming out of the water at the Rip Curl Pro held down in Chile (in ridiculous surf). My eyes perked a bit regarding the images layed out on the bottom of his board, I’d recognized them from somewhere before but never really knew their origin. Kelly explains…
…on his way out […]