Happy Cyber Monday! It’s only mere weeks until Christmas day and even fewer to Hanukkah.  Ideally I’m sure we’d all like to give each others sweet waves as gifts.  But since that is up to King Neptune, here are 5 holiday gift ideas under $15 for all the dudes and wahines on your list.

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Seaworthy is a recent surfing film by Nathan Oldfield that I watched on TV. Oldfield is the creator of Lines From A Poem which I have not yet seen, but heard positive things about.  Right off the bat, I dug the poster.  I know the addage says not to judge a book by it’s [...]

Another of my The Surf Network downloads, Sliding Liberia is a surf film right up my alley.  The story goes that Nicholai Lidow had been to Liberia as a student to help out with the UN peace keeping mission.  While there he started looking for waves in his off time.  He surfed many spots, but [...]

I hadn’t really planned on going out today, being the day after Thanksgiving and all.  But Josh called around 10 and asked if I’d been out yet since the swell picked up.  Honestly, I had no idea such a big swell was coming through.  With being on vacation and Thanksgiving, the surf reports were way [...]

Finally back to a computer with some power!  Here are some pics I took yesterday at Solana Beach.  It wasn’t as raging as the first day I surf there, but you know…should have been here yesterday.  This was also around low tide too.  But as you can see it was a beautiful day and there [...]

My computer battery is about to run out, so I’m just going to give you the cliff’s notes.  Went out to the same break today.  Bit more walled out than yesterday and the wave height dropped about a foot or so.  Wind spray off the top of the wave was insanely cool, huge plumes.  Light [...]

My wife and I are using some of our free nights we accrued from Holiday Inn Express while on our summer road trip during this week.  But after driving from HB to Key West and back we didn’t want to drive too far, just far enough.  We opted for Solana Beach so we could hit [...]

Wetsuits, by their very nature, are nearly a perfect creation for growing stinky bacteria. As your mom and biology teacher always told you, bacteria love damp, dark, warm environments. It takes quite a bit of maintenance to habitually rinse and hang your wetsuit to dry, leading most regular surfers to have wetsuits that smell only [...]

Looking for more stoke?  Here are some other surf blogs that I keep up with on a regular basis.  Totally worth a read.  (Special note to those whose sites I’m about to mention:  I promise your sites listed in no particular order.  This is just the order they are currently listed in under my RSS [...]

Seeing The Present was the first time I’d ever heard of Michel Junod or seen his surfboards in action.  In fact, Michel Junod was at the screening of the movie when I saw it.  When I got home from the movie, I immediately Googled it up.  There was some peripheral information, but nothing direct from [...]

Peter (Thunderlips) has been heading down to Bolsa Chica semi-regularly on weekends.  Since that’s in my neck of the woods he’s been kindly inviting me to join them the last few trips down.  Today it finally worked out.  Thunderlips brought his friend Tracy with him as well.  The three of us paddled out to what [...]

The fog was on again.  But this time it did not deter anyone from the sweet waves like it did a few weeks ago.  On the contrary, it was about as crowded in the line up today as I’ve ever seen it at El Porto.  And the waves were superb, which really added to the [...]

My first time back out since being sick and what a mess.  I knew the conditions were going to be big today, and as if I was fully conditioned for it, I tried to wait it out for the perfect moment.  I waited for the tide to drop, but tried to beat the afternoon wind.  [...]

Continuing on my movie review path, while I was ill, I also watched Hanging Five, another of my The Surf Network downloads. Hanging Five profiles the lives, work and experiences of five artists who also happen to be surfers. Though this movie does show plenty of surfing, it might be wrong to call this a [...]

If you could have a fictional character be your surf guru, who would you choose?  Do you go for the California-zen of Bodhi?  Would you prefer the patient-aloha of Chandler?  Or are you more fall under the spell of the fictional real person?  All three have great quotable lines, but who suits your style?