Look at this forecast! (North Orange County) It’s so good for so long my iPhone screen can’t even contain it all. CHARGE!

Hope you all had a wonderful new year’s day and had some time to spend with family and friends.  We sure did.  I know we’ve been cyber-silent for a bit, but we back and ready to surf the new year.  But before we do that, I decided to take a look back on my stats [...]

One week until Christmas and only two nights left of Hanukkah. Still looking for that last minute gift idea for you significant surf other? Here’s a cool gift idea – create a car kit.  There are certain items a surfer should always have in the car. The savvy surfer will always keep these [...]

After watching the Eddie Aikau Memorial Big Wave surf competition live from Wiamea Bay via the Internet recently all the Portoers have been abuzz about the gnarly waves we saw and the gnarly surfers we saw charging these monsters.  Surfline.com had predicted the swell to hit in the 20-30 foot range (there was even speculation [...]

Rain canceled another El Porto Friday. The vicious cycle has begun.  (The vicious cycle being the 72 hours lay period after a rain event, and then it seems to rain every three days.)  Luckily the Pipeline Masters is on again today, so you can watch that if you are rain soaked and/or landlocked.  But I [...]

We are well into the shopping season now.  We at EPF had a lot of positive response to the last Holiday Shopping Ideas list, so we though we’d bring you another such list.  This time we feature 5 holiday gift ideas under $50.

The Present DVD – $26.99 – The Present is the best new surf [...]

My buddy Duane, who lives on Oahu, went over to watch the In Memory of Eddie Aikau Waiamea big wave surf contest after work yesterday.  He was only able to see the last heat, but if you were watching online, you know that was probably the heat to see with Greg Long’s insanely successful heat [...]

Hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving while we were on hiatus last week.  We all did, except for CW.  (Glad to see you are feeling better, dude.)  Here’s this week’s video.  We didn’t go to breakfast this morning, which means I had extra time to tinker today.  I think I went overboard.
The longboarders owned the [...]

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.

Subscription to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Super suave superspy, Agent A, hot off his recent assignment in Costa Rica (where he saved the world again from evil doers bent on world domination), took a moment to enjoy himself in the Pacific Ocean.  Cruising the crystal clear waves on a crisp fall morning, Agent A deftly maneuvers Kruischev like an old lover.  [...]

We headed out yesterday for an early EPF session in the hopes to catch the end of the NW swell that is dissipating.  Early on in the dawn patrol there were a few decent rides, but it was clear the swell was on the outs.  By the time the sun was over the horizon the [...]

Going over my list of ways to improve your surf skill, I came up with a few more ideas.

Try new boards – Sometimes you’ll find that the board you are riding just doesn’t click with your style.  I’ll never forget the day I borrowed a Becker funboard from Brandon.  That day it all came together.  [...]

If you are 100% happy with your current surfing level, sweet!  However, if you are looking to step up your game a bit here are a few tips on how to improve your surf skills.  (Hopefully improve them to the point that they become “skillz!”)

Find your guru – Like anything else in life, it is [...]