Hands Across the Sand
/ Posted on June 29, 2010With fingers clasped in solidarity and feet planted firmly in the sand, nearly one hundred strangers stood hand in hand on the beach just north of the San Clemente Pier in Orange County, California on Saturday afternoon. The group was participating in the Hands Across the Sand movement, which mobilized beachgoers in 860 different locations [...]
King of Surf Guitar: Dick Dale
/ Posted on May 19, 2010That’s what caused surfers to call me King of the Surf Guitar, because they felt that what they were hearing, what I was playing it related to the ocean.
RIP: Emily Haager, February 14, 1983 – May 1, 2010
/ Posted on May 7, 2010On Saturday, May 1, 2010 the surf community and world at large lost a vibrant soul in 27-year-old Emily Haager.
India’s First Artificial Surfing Reef…Works
/ Posted on May 6, 2010What’s more surprising than the construction of an artificial surf reef in Kovalam Beach India? Based on video footage bouncing around cyber-space, the reef actually works.
Opinion: Want to Sell Surfing? Go Big
/ Posted on April 30, 2010If surfing really wants to gain mainstream traction (which, no doubt, many surfers have no interest in accomplishing), it needs to continue cultivating and repackaging big-wave surfing.
Interview: Todd Glaser
/ Posted on April 27, 2010As a rule, photographers stay out of the picture. They’re the guys behind the lens, churning out wondrous imagery; creating abstractions anchored firmly enough in reality to make visions of perfect surf a realistic ambition. But sometimes those shadowy characters are intriguing enough to flip the focus. We decided to put San Diego’s Todd Glaser, [...]
So Long And Thanks for All The Shoes
/ Posted on March 30, 2010At the beginning of each issue of SURFER Magazine (after an average of five advertisements, a table of contents, and a gorgeous surf shot known as Taking Off), you will find a Letter from the Editor. This letter contextualizes the whole issue; it sets the tone for the pages and concepts that follow, and I’ve [...]