Yeah! Why not try surfing? How hard could it be? It will be fun! This is how the surfing bug gets started … first, you are sitting there minding your own business, merrily going about your routines and schedule, and out of the blue, the surfing bug bites you right smack in your busy behind. It [...]
Summer is here, and the sudden upswing of sunscreen and sunblock sales is an indicator of the increased number of people rushing to the beaches. But in a recent study released last month by the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit public health advocacy group, only 8 percent of 700 sunscreen products it evaluated were recommended [...]
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 [...]
Green army men. My childhood memories are full of countless hours of being on my stomach, floor or dirt, staring down dozens upon dozens of brightly colored green army men. Frozen in amazingly epic poses, these little soldiers exploded through my young mind in an imaginary telling of battles and wars that out-exploded and out-dramatized [...]
For most surfers, wax is an after thought … a last minute reminder that traction is necessary as their feet hit the sand on the beach. This is why you often hear surfers on the beach bumming wax from other surfers (that’s borrowing to squares). Some surfers actually don’t remember the need for wax until [...]
I have not been surfing for over three weeks now … and oddly, I have not gotten the usual “gotta get in the water” itch that would normally accompany such a stretch of dry living. Should I be worried??? Have I lost something magical? Lost the urge or drive to surf? I had to find [...]
