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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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New Year
Happy New Year. Welcome to another post you are probably wondering why you are reading. I appreciate your time and support, sincerely. The original idea I had when starting this blog, for the most part, is completely out the window. I had big expectations for the whole thing. I was yearning to do […]
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Apologies
To the 5 or 6 people that have visited this site more than once, I owe you an apology. If you have read the blog posts, you might have noticed in the “Why Do You Surf” piece that I was working on a small little investigation, a trial of sorts, to try to find some […]