The Good
Laird
He’s like your inappropriate uncle who always manages to offend everyone in the room at Christmas dinner. He’s bitter, uncouth, and monomaniacal, but damn if he doesn’t say some really interesting things. Family get-togethers wouldn’t be the same without him.
Safety Measures in Big Wave Surfing
Enough near-death situations can convince even the hardest of heads that the odd contingency plan is a good idea. After years of turning away from modern gimmicks … More
HE could live anywhere in the world but three-time world surfing champion Mick Fanning is spending his winnings on the Gold Coast building a luxury beach pad not far from where he has lived since the age of 12.
The superstar surfer, who won his third ASP world championship title this month and earns more than $2 million a year, has almost finished the three-storey southern Gold Coast mansion.
Fanning is no stranger to the property market … More
They are the pioneers of modern surfing. From James Cook to George Downing, a very restrict group of people helped transform the act of riding waves into a proper sport called surfing.
The birth of surfing. The act of surf riding has many centuries. We know it was part of the ancient Polynesian culture, and that it was the favorite outdoor activity of the Hawaiian royalty.
Fate and destiny have connected 11 personalities with wave riding … More
The San Francisco Treat:
Damien Hobgood said “I’ve never seen a beachbreak that good in my whole life.” Josh Kerr, Damien Fahrenfort, Ricky Whitlock, Taylor Knox and most Ocean Beach locals agreed. For four days straight, a long-period Northwest swell was met with offshore winds as it unloaded on San Francisco’s fickle beachie. Lines stacked for miles out the back. Peaks teepeed and exploded from Kelly’s Cove to South Sloat. Down the road they ran the Mav’s contest and just off Noriega St. Mike Parsons broke his neck. And with the Giants fresh off a World Series win and the 49ers en route to the Super Bowl, it was a busy time in Bay Area sports.
Teahupo’o Goes XXL: … Great pictures and more