
Watch Now: Surfing dogs catch waves at California championships – KOAM
- James Wright
- August 10, 2022
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White settler living on stolen California land eviscerates modern surf image: “Surfing has a reputation for embodying all the most annoying and violent aspects of white masculinity!” – BeachGrit
- Chas Smith
- August 9, 2022
Bleak and ugly but is there hope? Surfing, man. A toxic stew featuring bashed singlefin: yellows, locals onlies, back paddles, angry glares, frustration, rigidnesses of mind, body, style, substance but has it always been so and must it always be? For the intellectually stilted, I suppose status quo rules but a scintillating new essay directly […]
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These Photos Show The Adorable And Athletic World Of Dog Surfing
- James Wright
- August 9, 2022
Surf’s up, dawg! This past weekend at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica, California — about a 20-minute drive south of San Francisco — a variety of dogs and their owners gathered for the World Dog Surfing Championships. The organization, billed as “Where the Top Dog Surfers come together” on its Instagram, subscribes to the motto […]
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Surfing the Tides of History in Northern Chumash Land | Essay
- James Wright
- August 9, 2022
“Surfing has a reputation for embodying all the most annoying and violent aspects of white masculinity,” writes Maya Weeks, in contrast to surfing’s roots as a Native Hawaiian cultural practice. Courtesy of Matthew Fuentes/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). For health reasons I have to stay out of the water for the next couple weeks so I […]
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Hawaii-born surfers hoping to crack top-five at WSL’s Corona Open at J-Bay
- James Wright
- August 9, 2022
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The holding period for the World Surf League’s Corona Open at J-Bay begins Tuesday in South Africa. Five-time World Champion Carissa Moore is set to hit the waves — already a lock for the upcoming WSL Finals — but there are more Hawaii surfers looking to make their way into the final […]
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Organizer preps for annual Quicksilver Big Island Pro-Am Surfing Trials at Honolii – Hawaii Tribune-Herald
- James Wright
- August 9, 2022
If you know anyone who picked up a golf club as a keiki and then went out and won an age group tournament a week later, you would have some idea about the innate expertise of the son and daughter team of Diesel and Rumor Butts. They are professional surfers these days, cashing checks whenever […]
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South shores remain under high surf warning; waves close beaches, roads
- James Wright
- August 9, 2022
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Dangerously high waves are forecast to build through the weekend for south-facing shores, with surf peaking Sunday near 24 feet. The National Weather Service in Honolulu has issued a high surf warning for all south shores through 6 p.m. Monday. The south swell may be one of the largest in recent years, […]
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Shark leaps out of water in front of Hawaii surfer
- James Wright
- August 9, 2022
July 22 (UPI) — A woman filming video at a Hawaii beach captured footage of a shark that jumped into the air in front of a surfer. Jan Yamasaki said she recorded the video at Honolulu’s Magic Island peninsula on Sunday while surfers were taking advantage of the historic South Shore swell. Advertisement The video […]
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This Is How Jamie O’Brien Did Code Red 2 In Mexico
- The Inertia
- August 9, 2022
[embedded content] Jamie O’Brien has surfed a lot of crazy days in a lot of crazy places. He watches swells from all over the world, and when it becomes apparent that one of those swells is going to make landfall in a particular place from a particularly good direction, he has no problem pulling the […]
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Watch Now: Surfing dogs catch waves at California championships – KOAM
- James Wright
- August 8, 2022
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