Get a feedback loop and listen to it. Your feedback loop can be this dorky spreadsheet thing I did, or it can just be one great man who tells you what you need to hear. The hard part is the listening to it. - Randy Pausch, author of “The Last Lecture”
Because the Ring of Fire – the volatile, 40,000 km-long (25,000 MILE) zone that encircles the Pacific Ocean and includes the most seismically dangerous ground on the planet- follows the coastlines of Pacific Ocean, almost any major quake can also produce a tsunami, a powerful wave that travels from the epicenter of the temblor across the [...]
The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. – Randy Pausch, author of “The Last Lecture”
RYOBI, the power tool company, has partnered with an Australian ad agency BMF Sydney, and came up with this clever set of advertisements geared for surfers and their specific line of power tools. No disrespect to kayakers, body boarders, and stand up paddle boarders … but as surfers, we like that someone over at Ryobi surfs [...]
For as long as I can remember I have had very vivid dreams. Sometimes disturbing nightmares that wake me in the middle of night, some blissful images of intense happiness and some just random scenes that don’t seem to make sense. Even though they can vary greatly I have always felt blessed that I can [...]
I am sitting in my office staring at my monitor. In front of me is a blank white page of a Word document that will end up being more than 50 pages. The document is slated to be a comprehensive organization wide plan and procedure due in exactly 35 hours. I sit back in my [...]
It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you. - Randy Pausch, author of “The Last Lecture”
… Buying the correct surf board is important when learning how to surf; start out with a bigger, thicker board at first, or even a foam board; learn more about buying your first surf board in this free surfing video clip. ( Expert: Schell Michael, Schell began surfing at the age of 4, but at age 15 [...]
The other day I took a stroll to all of my favorite think spots. For a surfer, naturally, the optimal place to ponder in peace is the beach. While allowing me to check the surf at the same time, the beach is a very beautiful creation of nature. Being in one of those introspective moods [...]
Safety device to protect other surfers from runaway boards OR kook device that allows non watermen to tread on places they do not belong? There is much debate when it comes to the use of a surfboard leash among old school surfers and new surfers, with the general feeling among die hard watermen being that [...]
Bring up the words ‘surf movies’ to a group of surfers and you will undoubtedly find yourself in the midst of an all out battle as to which movies deserve the title of “best movie ever”. iJS will not lay claim to a surfer’s best movies list at this time, but we will tell you [...]
We obviously like Recycled Records for the simple fact that it prevents more garbage from getting dumped into the land fills, but it also performs a crucial function in reducing waste in other areas not necessarily attached to the land fills.
Somehow, when I started a snowboarding site, I knew that some day I’d be discussing surfing. Now that I’ve tried surfing, that time has finally come. I’ve heard many people claim the two are very similar while others claim they’re nothing alike. It’s true that snowboarding and surfing are two totally different experiences but there is [...]
I have been surfing for about 7 years now. Taught myself. It’s a very difficult sport to master and I’m not even close to where I want to be. But I work on it, constantly. I surf because it maintains my sanity. Without it, I’m left swimming in a sea of dark mental chatter that [...]
There’s a blue-and-white sticker on the door of Room 513 in the dormitory at Union Theological Seminary, an imposing institution of Gothic design. “Life Is Better When You Surf,” it says. Mary Setterholm moved from Hermosa Beach to New York six weeks ago to begin a new life in her mid 50s, but there are things [...]
