Archive for the ‘Surfing & SUP’ Category
After his Nicaragua trip, Paul Cesar is back in Tahiti to get his last graduation in june, before the European season. Before to reach Tahiti, PC travelled in Pacific area to find new waves and destinations. Enjoy his last editing before the first summer swells in Tahiti.
A high-speed recap of all the action and all the winners from the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards at the Grove Theater in Anaheim, California. Featuring Nathan Fletcher’s epic bomb at Teahupoo, Tahiti, Garrett McNamara’s world record 78 foot wave in Portugal and Dave Wassel’s huge Monster Paddle-in beast at Jaws, Maui, Hawaii
Today I wanna begin the story of George Douglas Freeth. George was a Hawaiian born surfer who is credited with starting surfing here in California in the early 1900’s. After surfing for getting close to 60 years, and having heard the name George Freeth many times in conjunction with early California surfing, I finally took the time to find out who this guy was and what it was that he actually did.
I should have done this a long time ago because his story should be known by all of us who grew up and made our lives around surfing   … More