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HARD DRIVE

A surf story from the hard drive memory that is my brain.

What’s the best wave you’ve ever caught in your life?  I heard Taj Burrow give an interview about a recent session out at Cloudbreak where he caught the best wave of his life. He’s 46 years old. He surfed on Tour for who knows how many years, traversed the globe a handful of times surfing […]

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MEDIUM HAPPY

It’s wild how much better the WSL seems when they get some waves for events. Of course there will still be complaints and unfavorable opinions (Medina not getting a perfect 20 at Teahupoo, Griffin El Salvador interference, etc.), but for the most part, everyone’s stoked. It’s a medium happy.  Tahiti was fucking insane. Obviously I […]

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ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

Nat Young has had two shockers in a row. First and foremost, you saw the debacle that took place at Snapper. Now we’ve got this new ordeal of complete vs. incomplete. And quite the ordeal it’s been. Nat was not the only guy to get a questionable incomplete call in Sydney – have a look […]

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A WARM WELCOME BACK

Pete Mel and Strider trade verbal jabs on the live broadcast. My grom is asleep. I sip my cold Pacifico. Day One at Jeffrey’s Bay was a warm welcome back from my boycott. If you are a reasonably responsible person living in the US, chances are you did not stay awake through the wee hours […]

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SCENARIOS

So J-Bay just started. It is one of 2 remaining contests before the infamous Finals Day will decide this years World Champion at Lower Trestles. I’ve been working on this for a few days now. I was really hoping yesterday would be a lay day so I could post this before the contest started. Nonetheless, […]

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NEW LITTLE SIBLING

The race to get onto the Championship Tour has now become the center of attention to the surfing world at large. The CT itself is constantly on the receiving end of shit talk, criticism, negative comment boards, bad luck, shaming, etc. The Challenger Series is the sweet, innocent, cute, new little sibling. You can’t hate […]

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ROLL OF THE DICE

6 events. 80 surfers. 10 spots up for grabs. If surfing was big enough, someone could film a reality show about the Challenger Series. Almost had it with Make Or Break. Nice try, WSL. Or better yet, maybe we could program an algorithm into one of these new AI bots to take all of the […]