Garret McNamara Rides the Largest Wave Ever
Ever dreamed of surfing a big wave? How about a 90 footer? That’s exactly what Garrett McNamara did off the coast of Nazare, Portugal. Member of Garrett’s group said it was the largest wave ever successfully negotiated during a tow-surfing session. Garret, who’s in Portugal to study how waves in Nazare Canyon can reach unusual [...]
Surfers Will Find A Way
When there's no waves, surfers use what they can find or create their own. In the first video, Texas surfers use a benefit of oil tankers and, in the second, surfers in Spain shred at a wave pool that looks like it was constructed of mud and garbage bags. Mick Fanning: Wave Gardening from Mick [...]
Environment – California Bans Trade in Shark Fins
Big ups to Governor Jerry Brown for signing a law that made it illegal in California to trade in shark fins. With the passage of this law the entire west coast is now taking part in the ban. Millions of sharks are killed each year to provide the fins for the Asian delicacy, shark fin [...]
North Shore Hawaii
Every surfer, from the littlest grom to the oldest surf dude dreams of the promised land, the North Shore of Oahu. We have been lucky enough to visit Oahu three times, going again soon, and stay at Turtle Bay, the nicest resort on the North Shore and which also marks the easternmost edge of surfing [...]
6th Annual Ashlyn Shoemaker Memorial Grom Roundup – Galveston, Tx
We were in Galveston, Texas, the weekend of September 10th and happened to catch a surfing tournament being held next to the 43rd Street jetties. Everyone participating in the 6th Annual Ashlyn Shoemaker Memorial Grom Roundup, as well as everyone watching, took advantage of a gorgeous Texas day. The tournament was limited to ages 13 [...]
Rip Currents Cause Deaths of Two Boogie Boarders
As a strong swell rolled into the West Coast Tropical Storm Lee made landfall in Louisiana and cranked up the swell for a short time along the Gulf Coast. Both these conditions cost the lives of boogie boarders taking advantage of the increased wave conditions and rip currents appear to be the culprit in both [...]
Video from the Wedge
As we discussed yesterday, California got a great, albeit dangerous, swell in just in time for Labor Day weekend. One of the places getting pounded was the Wedge, a favorite surfing spot near Newport Beach in Orange County, which was reporting waves up to 20 feet. The clip below shows some of the impressive waves [...]
Labor Day Weekend West Coast Swell (w/ pics!)
Just in time for the last holiday weekend of the summer a High Surf Advisory has been issued and a swell rolled into Cali beaches. The National Weather Service predicted 6-10 foot waves pounding the coast all the way through Sunday night. The rip tides may have already accounted for the life of one boogie [...]
HBOs Real Sports Addresses Meth and Surfing
As many of you know, the sport of professional surfing lost one of its' best last November when Andy Irons was found dead in a hotel room at the DFW airport. An autopsy by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office revealed that Irons died of a cardiac arrest due to a severe blockage of a [...]
