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…
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.
Spain, September 2011.
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.
In the immortal words of Kelly Slater, “It is the morning of the final.” Told in a scene from his 1991 film “Black and White,” a bright eyed and bushy tailed teen Slater wakes up and mumbles the sentence that would launch the greatest career in pro surfing history. I wonder if he’s saying that […]
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Dane Reynolds Trestles Music: Dirty Beaches: “Aurevoir Quebec” “Sweet 17” Filmed & Edited By: Andrew Schoener futureenigma.com Cast: Future Enigma Tags: Dane Reynolds , Trestles , waves , surfing , surfer , socal , surfboard , ocean and future enigma
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