Pat Schmidt and Balaram Stack doing their thing chasin’ a stormy little lady named Nicole south of the Mason-Dixon.
As a surfer, it’s hard sometimes to not feel a little bit like a war profiteer. Many of the places we frequent are dirt-cheap and the dollar goes a long way because, well … many of those places are unstable.
Oddly enough, a lot of good waves are just off the shores of some global hot-zones.
But alas, some of those very hot-spots are finally chilling out and are safe again! The civil unrest has sorted itself out and decades-long wars have come to an end … More
If you live in California, you’ve heard that you’re not supposed to surf after it rains. Apparently, all the filth we vomit out every day builds up, then runs into the ocean at an alarming rate. Crowd control at its finest and most disgusting. Recently, more than 600 surfers helped researchers look at exactly how disgusting it is.
The study was conducted by researchers at UC Berkley, the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, and the Surfrider Foundation. Although it’s long been assumed that surfing after a rain isn’t all that good for you, there haven’t been all that many studies about exactly what is in the water and how much of it there is … More