When you’re starting a surf business and your friends are some of the best surfers on the planet, it can’t go wrong. You don’t need an MBA to understand the value of endorsement. Kelly Slater’s surf pool concept delivers what may be the best man-made wave in the world. The way it peels across the […]
Professional surfing has its rules. Just like in any other sport, surfers must know what they can and can’t do to beat their opponents and win heats and contests. Competitive surfing is full of hidden guidelines and directives. Athletes who are new to competitive surfing often make mistakes that cost heats. In the majority of […]
Who needs pills when you’ve got surfing? A group of French doctors and health care providers is prescribing surfing to their patients. And the overall results are quite impressing. We knew surfing is good for your health. Late Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz had already taught how riding waves could increase our quality of life. As a doctor […]
The second big wave surfing session of the season didn’t disappoint. It’s still autumn in Nazaré, but the furious mountains of salted water have already hit the canyon at full throttle. The world’s best risk takers in the sport of surfing know what to expect in the small Portuguese fishing town. Nazaré has roughly 15,000 inhabitants […]
“View From A Blue Moon” is the first surf movie shot in 4K. And John John Florence is the star of the film. The flick’s storyline couldn’t be more promising. They say we’ll see “the sport of surfing as it’s never been captured before,” as imagined through the eyes of Blake Vincent Kueny. In the […]
Bruno Hansen, Jesse Billauer, Mark “Mono” Stewart and Felipe Lima have been crowned the 2015 ISA World Adaptive Surfing champions, at La Jolla, in California. The inaugural ISA World Adaptive Surfing Championship saw Brazilian surfer Fellipe Lima collecting a heat total of 12.93 and winning the first-ever gold medal in the Upright division. “I couldn’t […]
How do you say “surfing” in Hawaiian? Are there multiple Hawaiian expressions to say “wave”? Learn how to translate English surfing expressions into “Olelo Hawai’i” (Hawaiian language). John R.K. Clark, author of “Hawaiian Surfing: Traditions From The Past”, has extensively studied the presence of surfing in the Hawaiian language. The sport of kings is richly portrayed […]
Stop the madness. Punk filmmaker Toby Cregan delivers one of the craziest surf flicks of the decade. “Nix Nic Nooley.” The movie title says it all, right? And the storyline is quite clear. Year 2879: due to high levels of pollution the ocean has dried up, and the only way to surf is by time […]
Delphine Besson is a Swiss surfer. She’s special. Not because she comes from a landlocked country, but because she has a rare, incurable disease. When you go to bed, and you don’t know how you’ll feel the next day, you must value life. That is the story of Delphine, born in 1983 in Sri Lanka, […]
“Surfing” is a noun; “surf” is the verb. But how did these words evolve over time? So where do the words “surfing” and “surf” come from? When we look up in the (online) dictionary for the word “surfing”, this is what we get in return: a) the sport or pastime of riding a wave towards […]