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Channel Islands
Take a Tour of Channel Islands’ Carpinteria Surfboard Factory with Conner and Parker Coffin
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Channel Islands’ surfboard factory in Carpinteria is steeped in history. Al Merrick may have gained early notoriety for boards he was making for …
Man Pushed Off Cliff for Incorrectly Calling Famed California Surf Spot ‘Steamers’ Too Many Times
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Illustration by @suckitalex // original image: Sean Ruttkay In November of 2018, Trip O’Fallerty of San Jose, California pressed charges for an …
Transportation
J-Bay Is Getting a Test Road Made With Recycled Plastic
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J-Bay’s getting a test road made from recycled plastic. Image: MacRebur Jeffreys Bay commuters will soon be driving on a road of a different sort: one …
Kelly Slater
What Are Kelly Slater’s Olympic Qualification Prospects, Really?
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Photo: WSL/Poullenot/Aquashot The stakes have never been higher on the 2019 World Surf League Championship Tour. That’s because for the first time in …
Surfing
45 Seconds of Parko Seriously Cruising on a Twinnie
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You know what makes us sad? That Joel Parkinson retired from competition. Sure, we’ll still see him out and about in lineups and sure, we’ll still …
Hawaii
Hawaii Politicians Introduced Aggressive Bans On Most Plastics at Restaurants
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This is not the way it should look. Photo: Surfrider Foundation Two proposed measures in Hawaii could make it the first state to ban plastics …
Surfing
John John Florence, the Crown Prince of Pipe, Juices a Late Season Swell at Home
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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. John John Florence’s absence from competition through much of last year and a dearth of web clips have …
Snowboarding
This Snowboarding Film Makes Fun of Web Content in the Internet Age
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Seriously, what’s a rider of snow to do these days? The world of magazines have crumbled, feature films are on life support and web content lasts for …
World War II
World War II Veteran Is Running Across the Country for a Second Time at Age 95
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Ernie Andrus has put us all to shame once before when he ran across the country from San Diego to Georgia. At 93. Now, at 95, he’s doing his second …
Kelly Slater
Here’s the Time Kelly Slater Ran Over Rob Machado In a Convertible BMW
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A long, long time ago, Kelly Slater wasn’t the owner of more titles than anyone else. He wasn’t the man who made a perfect wave in a pool 100 miles …
Top 10
Kelly Slater: ‘Olympic Qualification Is On My Mind’
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Kelly Slater. The King. Photo: Cestari/WSL Kelly Slater’s an interesting cat. Everything he does and says begs for a little bit of reading between the …
This Inbounds Avalanche at St. Anton, Austria Is the Stuff of Nightmares
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This slope gave away after multiple groups had ridden it. It wasn’t fesh. It wasn’t its first run. The video was posted to Ski Like a Pro/Ski Guiding …
NOAA
Satellite Images of the ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Show How Massive It Was
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NOAA’s GOES West satellite captured this GeoColor limb view of the powerful winter storm system on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, before sweeping …
Jason Momoa
Jason Momoa and Jimmy Chin Revisit Their Historic Oscars Night
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When Jason Momoa walked on stage to present the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary, it was like the Academy’s wink wink, nod nod to the climbing …
Alpine Skiing
Marine Vanishes While Backcountry Skiing California’s Sierra High Route
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Matthew Kraft has been missing since at least March 4, when his father notified authorities. Photo: Marine Corp On February 23, Marine, 1st Lt. …
Pulp Fiction
Dick Dale, the ‘King of Surf Guitar,’ Is Dead; Toured Into His 80s to Pay Medical Bills
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Dick Dale playing live in the Middle East in 2005. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Dick Dale, known the world over as the “King of Surf Guitar” and famous …
Surfing
Shane Sykes and Beyrick De Vries Turn a Classic Game of H.O.R.S.E. Into Surfing’s ‘K.O.O.K.’
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If you touched a basketball at any point in your childhood, you played the game of H.O.R.S.E. It was simple fun that could kill hours upon hours …
Mashups
Markus Eder’s Guide to Being a Style Master
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The Freeride World Tour is an interesting mash-up of different styles. Big mountain skiers compete with alpine racers and freestylers. Still, though, …
North Sea
How Scientists Recreated a Monster Wave That Looks Like Hokusai’s Famous Image
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Hokusai’s great wave, woodcut, c.1829-33. Image: Wikipedia Commons Accounts by mariners of freak or rogue waves out in the ocean have long been a …
Los Angeles, CA
California Is Officially Out of the Drought
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Drought? What drought? Image: Unsplash California’s been through a bit of a rough patch in the last little while, but after months and months of …
A Session Through Nathan Florence’s Eyes
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There are many vlogs floating around in the surfing world nowadays. With each passing week, it feels as though another surfer joins the ranks of …
Snowboarding
Pierre Vaultier Built the Ultimate Pump Track
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Snowboarders are great at building things they want to fling themselves off. Kickers off cliffs, superpipes, and the like litter mountains all over …
Multiple Sclerosis
More Than Just THC: A Pharmacologist Looks at Marijuana’s Untapped Healing Compounds
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Assorted cannabis bud strains. Image: Roxana Gonzalez/Shutterstock.com Medical marijuana is legal in 33 states as of November 2018. Yet the federal …
Kayaking
Watch Jamie O’Brien Bodyboarding at Perfect Pipeline With Jeff Hubbard
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Jamie O’Brien is pretty used to scoring perfect Pipeline. That doesn’t mean, however, that he’s BORED of it. It just means he’s very lucky to live …
Wetsuits
Kai Lenny Is Hydrofoiling With a Very Strange New Wetsuit
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kai Lenny (@kai_lenny) on Mar 15, 2019 at 8:26pm PDT Advertisement If a random person were to show up at …
Animated Movies
This Animated Short Will Make You Appreciate the Complex Science Behind Riding Waves
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A fact that often goes underappreciated when your local is firing on all cylinders is that waves often travel hundreds if not thousands of miles …
Surfing
Two Norwegian Surfers Want to Shape Surfboards Made of Ice and Ride Them
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There’s never been a more diverse array of materials available from which to make surfboards as there is now. Ice, though, isn’t one of them. …
Skateboarding
Jake Phelps, Legendary Thrasher Magazine Editor, Is Dead
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Jake Phelps, longtime Thrasher Magazine editor, passed away. Image: Screenshot from Thrasher’s Hall of Meat Jake Phelps, Thrasher Magazine editor and …
Surfing
Watch Bruce Irons and Taj Burrow In a Way-Back Track from 1999
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It’s hard to stay at the top of any game for a long time. There is always someone drafting you, watching carefully to figure out how you got there, …
Oil Exploration
Thousands of Students Are Striking Across the World to Spur Action on Climate Change
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Across the globe, student protests are planned in nearly 100 countries aimed to spur action on climate change. Photo: Laura Campbell/Flickr “We have …