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Netflix brought us this moody, mostly black and white meditation on surfing by Patrick Trefz. Thread starts with a collaboration between Joel Tudor and photographer Michael Halsband and then sort of meanders from La Cote Basque to Africa, Hawaii and … Continue reading
Inaugural Surf Contest Held at Mamallapuram
India’s east coast saw a rare display of surfing when the first Ocean and Earth Surfing Championship was held at Mamallapuram yesterday. The surf contest drew 70 competitors to the resort town 30 km south of Chennai, IBN reported. It was an … Continue reading
Ten Tips for Traveling Solo
There’s a lot to recommend traveling alone. You go where you want, when you want and do what you want. There’s no group decisions or waiting around. It’s the ultimate freedom. On the other hand, extended solo travel can be … Continue reading
Boards and Airlines
With most airlines the price for taking boards seems to vary with the mood of the person at the counter. Continue reading
FBI warns of kidnappings in Tijuana
I was talking with a surfer who had been living in SoCal recently. He told me that the Marines at Camp Pendelton has made northern Baja off limits to recruits on leave. You have to wonder about traveling to an … Continue reading
South of the Rising Sun: Surfing in Japan
“Where are you going,” the guy in the shop asked me as he pulled down the double padded board bag from the shelf, “Indo? Australia?” “Japan,” I replied. “Right … ” There it was again, that nod of the head … Continue reading
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Surfing in Yemen
Yemen – the empty quarter. We were nearing the end of a two week exploration of the coast, looking for (and finding) epic waves in warm water. Now we were heading home. We went the long way, the interesting way, … Continue reading
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Surfing in India, Part 1: Tamil Nadu
Day 1 Got into Madras, or Chennai as it’s called now, at about 5.30am. We had a slight hitch getting through immigration, as they insisted on knowing where we were going to stay. We had no idea where we going … Continue reading
East of Bali: Surfing Indonesia
May 5: The reef is more than a kilometer from shore. At low tide you can wade out through cultivated plots of agar seaweed, over steps of nubby coral and basins of sand. Big red starfish dot the aquascape like … Continue reading
In Morocco, Part 3: South
The swell dropped after Christmas, only to be replaced by a new pulse from a system far off in the North Atlantic. We were seated on a rug in front of Simon and Esther’s, passing a fat one around and … Continue reading