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Riding Waves(0)

July 8, 2010

Cyrus Sutton found inspiration for his debut film in his backyard. As a kid surfing at Seal Beach and growing up in Long Beach, California, he looked up to surfers like Rob Machado and Joel Tudor. So when he went to make his first film (at the precocious age of 19), he recruited local heroes [...]

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Chile’s Endangered Coast

On the morning of February 27, 2010 residents of Santiago were thrown from their beds as an 8.8 tremblor rocked the Chilean capitol. The epicenter of the earthquake was later placed about five miles west of Curanipe, Chile, or about 200 miles southwest of Santiago.  Tsunami warnings were posted as far away as New Zealand, [...]

Land of 1000 Lefts

In case you missed Brendon Bosworth’s article about a 6,800-mile trek from South Africa to Angola  in the February 2010 issue of Surfer, you can get a feel for that epic surf mission from this video, posted on the venerable South African surf magazine ZigZag. Angola – Empty lefts! from Zag Tv on Vimeo. What [...]

Second to None

“The best surfers on the planet, surfing the best waves on the planet,” is how the DVD Second to None bills itself. That terse description is not only accurate, but emblematic of the aesthetic of Second to None. There’s almost no dialog, no explanations, no interviews and spotty identification of the surfers and waves they’re [...]


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