Taj Burrow, Dino Adrian, Jack Robinson, Dave Delroy and more at North Point during the claimed ‘swell of the decade’
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To a dispassionate or incurious eye, they are merely two planks of gray weathered wood, something you might come across moldering in the brush behind a log pile at someone’s Santa Cruz Mountains cabin.
But through the eyes of Kim Stoner or Geoffrey Dunn or Bob Pearson or Barney Langner or any number of surfers and/or spectators at a special ceremony at the Museum of Art & History last Thursday, these two planks of wood carry a staggering cultural meaning. In the world of surfing, they are the Rosetta Stone, the Shroud of Turin, the Hammer of Thor. They are the paintings on the cave walls at Lascaux, Shakespeare’s first folio, Babe Ruth’s first bat.
They are the First Surfboards … More
How much money would someone have to pay you to stop surfing? Well, for star quarterback Marcus Mariota, apparently that number is somewhere north of 20 million dollars. The Oahu native recently left the Oregon Ducks after winning a coveted Heisman Trophy, only to move on to be a first-round pick by the Tennesee Titans in the 2015 NFL draft. Now, from here, usually the process continues with the team offering you a buttload of money, you sign a few papers, shake a few hands, and go on your way as a new found high-profile professional athlete. But for Mariota, there’s been a few snags in the negotiations of his contract. One of the biggest ones? A no-surfing clause … More
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Surf Video – “Curt”
CURT is a short documentary about 50-year-old competitive surfer, Curt Harper. Diagnosed with autism as a child, Curt faced many challenges growing up, but one thing that came easy was his love for surfing. Over the past 21 years, Curt has become a beloved fixture in the Southern California surf scene, having played an unlikely, yet vital role in the growth and development of multiple generations of groms.