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My Surf Sin

Everyone sins. This is common knowledge. Sinning doesn’t determine whether you’re a good or bad person. Recognizing that you have sinned, and consequently working to correct your mistake is what is important.  Sins happen everywhere. Anywhere. All the time. At work, at home, at dinner, in the car, on vacation, etc. etc. If you are […]

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The Opening Days

“The best is yet to come and babe, won’t it be fine?” Frank Sinatra’s famous melody rang through my ears this morning while rewatching John John and Joao Chianca’s R16 heat. It’s impossible to say, but I would not put money down that we’ll see better waves this year on tour than the opening 4 […]

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Welcome to the CT

Happy New Year. While the Pipe Pro is still 2 weeks or so away from kicking off this years CT, we’ve got 12 qualifiers from the Challenger Series. Let’s meet the newest crew to grace the WSL’s beloved Championship Tour.  We’ll start with some familiar faces. Zeke Lau – The big Hawaiian will be making […]

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What Happened At Haleiwa

The first day of the contest had the best looking waves. Aside from JJF’s obvious dominance out there, a few standouts were – Crosby Colapinto, Ian Gentil, Thiago Camaro, newly qualified Jake Marshall, Jacob Wilcox and Jack Robinson on the wave behind.  The next 2 days got big, unruly, and had a ton of water […]

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SNAPT4

SNAPT4 IS OUT WATCH BELOW, RIGHT NOW A few standout waves: 4:50 Benji Brand  15:40 Asher Pacey 20:58 Barron Mamiya 24:54 Josh Moniz 28:14 Parker Coffin 33:36 Clay Marzo 39:05 Seth Moniz 41:44 Jack Robinson 44:56 Mason Ho Hot Takes: Benji Brand solidifies himself as one of the best barrel riders in the world. Asher […]

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Surf Amp

For me, a great surf photo or surf video will be something that makes me want to surf. Obviously, right? But, it needs a little bit more than that. It needs some emotion behind it. I’m not talking about the headline story, the image front and center of a photo either. I want the photo […]

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I’M BACK

I surfed 5 days last week, and I’m fucking ecstatic about it. I’m on track for another 5 days this week. I haven’t been this stoked on surfing since I quit the baseball team to join the surf class during my sophomore year.  I recently had a bit of a hiatus from surfing. A 113 […]

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What’s the Difference Between Me and You?

I got to go snowboarding last week. I wouldn’t call this a rare occasion, but it only happens about once a year if I am lucky. I really cherish these trips to the mountain though; I mean I seriously enjoy every minute of it. Snowboarding, in my opinion, has a lot of parallels to surfing. […]

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Help

         An interesting situation arose while I was having great surf about two months ago that I would like to share with you. I thought about writing a post in dedication to this state of affairs immediately after, but I decided to let the emotions settle. I was hot.          The waves were extremely fun, […]

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Missing Out

         I hate the acronym FOMO. I typically tend to hate any trend I catch whiff of. I’ve thought about this long and hard, and I really can’t determine the source of my discontent. My immediate reasoning is to say that I despise when people don’t think for themselves. Quickly thereafter, I may find myself […]