As a writer for a surf publication, your salary is peanuts but your perks are aplenty. Free gear, occasional all-inclusive press trips, special event invites, and access to the culture you love are all part of the gig.
Is it just me, or does there always seem to be a good swell on the holidays? Surfers who live on the edge of the Pacific Ocean know that late autumn often provides a bounty of waves just as the extended family rolls into town. I swear it's like clockwork, even on the North Shore.
There’s nothing like a long, tapering and dynamic point break to underscore one’s style, or lack thereof. A longer time on the wave means more options, choices, opportunities, for better or for worse.
The Great Lakes – a series of interconnected tarns, spanning across the northeast of America and spilling across the Canadian border – are freshwater monsters.
Dylan Graves, the acclaimed weird waves surfer hailing from Puerto Rico, has officially broken a Guinness World Record – most turns on a single wave. The
The Venn diagram between surfing and fishing is a bulging disc of ocean lovers. Recent crossover brands, such as the Mad Hueys and Salty Crew, to name just a few, have been successful in reaching those who share a passion for getting tubed and wetting a line.
It seems like, by some cosmic intervention, big swells drop on holidays. Christmas, Thanksgiving, the Fourth of July – quite often, big waves correlate with these holidays.
On Thursday, two tourists were out for a swim in Australia. They were near a popular surf spot in New South Wales – Kylies Beach at Crowdy Bay near Port Macquarie, about 218 miles north of Sydney – when tragedy struck.
Christian Fletcher is your father. Nathan Fletcher is your uncle. Herbie and Dibi Fletcher are grandpa and grandma. When your family is composed of pioneers, innovators and figureheads of surf and skateboard culture, it’s not like you can sit on the couch and play video games all day.