I’ve always said that Rob Machado is becoming the mystic guru of surfing. A new film called The Drifter follows Rob on a kind of spiritual/personal quest to find himself and figure out how to move on into the future (not in a time-travel sense, rather figuring out where he want to go in life). …
SurfAid has set up an Emergency Response Appeal to help the people of Padang who were affected by the 7.6 earthquake of September 30th. (Surfaid is a great organization set up by surfer/physician Dr. Dave Jenkins. The aim of Surfaid is to combat deadly, preventable diseases in areas frequented by surfers.) I’m sure you’ve seen…
One of the paradoxes of surfing is that surfers tend to be more aware of environmental responsibility than the average citizen, yet the sport of surfing itself is terribly destructive in terms of materials used for boards, wetsuits, travel and so on. But take heart, there are some emerging pioneers in the surf industry who…
An 8.0 earthquake in American Samoa this morning prompted a tsunami watch in Hawaii and a tsunami advisory for coastal areas of Southern California, including Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. From weather.gov: TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA… THIS IS NOT A TSUNAMI WARNING…
Whitewash is a documentary by directory Ted Woods on the history of black surfers. Talk about a great subject! It recently showed at the NY Surf Film Festival. Narrated by Ben Harper, this movie explores the stereotypes, struggles and triumphs of black surfers in America. I’d read an article in The Surfer’s Path some years…
I saw this on Foam E-Z today and though it was quite interesting. Very broadly, this film covers the topic of surfers during the Vietnam War. Between the Lines follows two surfers during the Vietnam War. One surfer, Pat Farley, enlists in the army and goes over to fight in the war; the other, Brant…
Alright, here’s the video that nearly wound up in the Internet Ether. I may have gone overboard with it. Usually, I try to edit it and get it online pronto, but this time I had the clips for a whole weekend and the new iMovie ’09 to explore. The biggest news about this video (besides…
Good News! I did it! I managed to recover the video files. Many, many hours of work. I’m working on the video now. So you’ll have something to watch soon. After making you wait so long, I’ll do my best to spice up the production. Lots of iMovie magic!
***UPDATE (6:00 PM)*** I may have recovered the files. Stay tuned for the video after all. (It’ll be even funnier now if the video turns out to be a turd.)
We been getting a lot of hits lately from people asking “is el porto a good place to learn?” So, we though we’d address this question. No, El Porto is probably not the best place to learn to surf. El Porto has two major obstacles to learning. First, El Porto can get really crowded. It’s…