1,000 new subscribers by end of December or the plug gets pulled
Without 1,000 new subscribers by the end of the month to fund operations, the Encyclopedia of Surfing and its sister sites, History of Surfing and Above the Roar, will be taken offline.
When Matt Warshaw announced his new websites for HOS and ATR in January, joining EOS to form surf history’s royal triumvirate, the orbit of surf media slowed down. More specifically, it went backwards. Back to surfing’s beginnings, to its continental cross-pollinations. To its heroes, pioneers, and martyrs, figures whose lives were an effort to articulate that ineffable high of riding a wave. The life of a website today is a life of addition — what’s being added to the conversation, what’s now and new. HOS, along with EOS and ATR, reminds us that slowing down in the past, be it in an entry or a chapter, adds to our obsessive surf conversations is ways that going 85 and nine edits deep in the fast lane simply can’t, and never will.
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Another day at Makaha Beach, Hawaii. The surf seemed to have either stayed about the same or slightly smaller than yesterday but fun nonetheless. Surfers Mason Schremmer, Kirra Seale and more.
It has been one year since the start of this diy project, Sheep Side! Nestled into an abandoned insane asylum at the base of the Koolau mountain range near a pasture of quietly grazing sheep. Mayhem on the regular! Locals yelling out, “hook um braddah!” Mahalo to all those who have made this happen, you know who you are!
The one year went off! Big thanks to Gutto the dog! Heal dat shoulder Willy! Less lurkers, more workers! This has been a Shitty Kids presentation.
Skaters in order of shred: Willy Akers, Rob Moore, Arto Saari, Bedpan, Noah Montes, Carter, Tat Pat, Eighteen, Ivan Florence, Tippy, Will Aduja and Evan Mock