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7.22.10
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OUT OF BOUNDS: O'Neill Camp Teaches Blind Children To Surf
For two days on the Dutch coast, 24 blind and visually impaired children took to the ocean and were taught how to surf as part of The Out of Bounds program within The O’Neill Surf Academy. Watch inspiring video from the camp. For 10 year old Dion Terlingen, who is completely blind and autistic, it [...]
7.22.10
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BUSTIN' DOWN THE DOOR: The Original SURFER Article From 1977
Three issues after Gerry Lopez’s “Attitude Dancing” was published in SURFER in late 1976, young Australian Rabbit Bartholomew got his chance to respond on behalf of what are known today as the Free Ride revolutionaries, the enfants terrible who threatened to unseat the Old Guard on Oahu’s north shore. “The fact is that when you [...]
7.22.10
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SHARK ATTACK: 13-Year-Old Girl Attacked By Shark At New Smyrna Beach
According to a report on TampaBays10.com a thirteen-year-old girl was attacked by a shark in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, a place many have called “The Shark Capital of The United States.” According to the report the girl, visiting from New York, was bitten on her right shin in shallow water, and has been hospitalized . [...]
7.22.10
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YEOMANS MAKES IT THREE: Nate Yeomans Wins His Third Straight Oakley Newport Beach Pro
Nathan Yeomans (San Clemente, CA), 27, has claimed his third consecutive event title with a big win at the 2008 Oakley Newport Beach Pro over fellow finalists Dillon Perillo (Malibu, CA), 18, Travis Mellem (San Clemente, CA), 23, and Micah Byrne (Huntington Beach, CA), 26, in clean two-to-three foot waves at Newport Beach’s 56th Street. [...]
7.22.10
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THE KEY TO EUROPEAN DOMINATION: Strategy – A Fantasy Surfer Guide to Both France and Spain
We’ve all heard enough about Kelly. Right? While still not a mathematical lock, let’s be real, he’s completely run away with the 2008 ASP World Tour season and nobody’s going to even come close to catching him. Why not, you might ask? Well, besides the obvious fact that from start to finish he’s dominated five [...]
7.22.10
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SUPER SATURDAY: Surf City Serves Up Insanity for 2008 US Open
It’s a Saturday, oh yeah, sunseekers, it’s super Saturday in Surf City. I’d been kinda hazy on the chronological side of things. Every day here at the US Open had been kinda blurring together into one long endless summer’s day. Each morning, for the last eon had been eerily, uncannily, similar. A hazy dawn would [...]
7.22.10
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ENGLAND'S ARTIFICIAL REEF: Construction Gets Underway
There were cheers all round today as a landmark event successfully took place; the first section of the first artificial surf reef in the northern hemisphere slowly rolled off a barge and was laid on Boscombe seabed. The first section makes up one sixth of the volume of the reef and is constructed from a [...]
7.22.10
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LET'S GET WEIRD: A Q&A With Donavon Frankenreiter On His Guest Editor Issue
What was it like being the guest editor of SURFER? “It was definitely a dream come true. It was amazing. It’s been my surfing bible for 20 odd years and I never thought id be able to be to direct an issue and have a huge part in what goes inside its pages.” What did [...]
7.22.10
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PASS IT AROUND: Win Donavon Frankenreiter's New CD
One (1) Grand Prize Winner from your site will receive: Autographed Copy of Pass It Around Move By Yourself CD Recycled Recipes EP The Abbey Road Sessions DVD And a huge 48” beach ball! Five (5) First Prize Winners from your site will receive: Copy of Pass It Around Listen to Donavon here. On August [...]
7.22.10
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THE GREENEST BOARD: Is Tom Wegener's Alaia the Kindest of Them All?
Is there such a thing as a green surfboard? And if there is, how can anyone make such a statement without falling into the slippery slope argument of how big one’s footprint actually is? At some point, you are using energy to create the materials used or extracted to make the board. And at some [...]
