Surfers are a fun-loving group of people, often times hooting and laughing as the waves roll into their specific break. But don’t let this outer layer fool you … it is not secret that surfers are territorial. Let’s face the fact that as a rule, the goal is to protect the beaches, the breaks, and [...]
We all saw that Friends episode (c’mon, you watch it, too!) when Monica gets stung by a jellyfish, and Joey remembers that peeing on a jellyfish sting takes the pain away. BUT don’t believe everything you see on TV! Most jellyfish stings cause only pain and numbness, while the Australian box jellyfish is the most venomous and [...]
In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the challenge head on is only about us–no one can touch that. If we win or lose this weekend, it will not make a difference in our lives. But why we play and how [...]
This may sound like an over simplification, but there is no greater truth out in the open ocean: happy surfers all share similar (if not the same) happy habits. It’s as simple as that. The happiest surfers I know share seven very obvious habits. If you’re looking to expand your general happiness, you may consider [...]
I surf everyday, rain or shine … waves or not, I paddle out for at least thirty minutes. I consider this my daily commune with mother ocean. No on taught me this, and no one has to tell me to keep doing it. This morning, I got into thinking about how many people – the [...]
What does the word “aloha” mean to you? Aloha “Hello”? Aloha “Goodbye”? What else? As a visitor, when you arrive in Hawaii, you are often greeted with “aloha,” a word that almost every person with access to reruns of Hawaii Five-O knows, at least loosely. But it’s so much more than a mere greeting, much like [...]
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meet Sissy and Lois. Two women who do not know each other, and for all intent and purpose will not ever meet each other. But they are bound together by surfing, and how it has affected their lives. Learning to surf is serious business for Sissy … she approaches it with much excitement and methodical [...]
We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are. -The Talmud
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. – Kahlil Gibran
Wear sunscreen! The long term negative effects of sun exposure has been heavily documented and proven by scientists, and as surfers we should be wholly aware of how much time we spend under the sun’s rays. We love the sun, we love the ocean, and there is no force short of natural disasters would prevent [...]
Keep walking, though there is no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances, that is not for human beings. Move, but not the way fear makes you move. – Rumi
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. – Albert Einstein
So you think you want to surf eh? Great! Welcome to the fray, surfer brother or surfer sister … but know that many people never make it past the initial stage of learning to stand up on a board, and few make it to reaching the goal of actually surfing a wave for the “stoke”. [...]
Recent economic shifts within the surfing industry have slowly shifted consumer tastes in clothing & design away from the mainstream big-box labels, and more towards supporting the independent artists and clothing designers. It seems that an increasingly large number of shoppers and consumers have come to the conclusion that the lone business person or artisan [...]
