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The Maiden Voyage of the Sea NymphThe Maiden Voyage of the Sea Nymph NEW VIDEO!  I know, I know.  You thought we reached episode 13 and were cursed.  Wrong, scurvy dogs.  We just got delayed by rain and holidays.  But I am happy to bring...

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Local Report from the Eddie Aikau Big Wave ContestLocal Report from the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Contest 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,...

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Cleaning My Used Wetsuit to Get That Stink OutCleaning My Used Wetsuit to Get That Stink Out 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...

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My New Michel Junod Pumkin Seed SurfboardMy New Michel Junod Pumkin Seed Surfboard 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...

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How To Build a Vertical Surf Rack on the CheapHow To Build a Vertical Surf Rack on the Cheap My quiver grew to a half dozen this summer and storage was becoming scarce. All the nooks, crannies and corners were spoken for and by August I was actually storing a board...

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Dog Surfing CompetitionDog Surfing Competition I attended the Dog Surfing Competition I mentioned a while back.  Then my compy crashed.  But now I am back up to full speed and I can finally bring you my pictures from...

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EPF - Episode 8: Greg's CurseEPF - Episode 8: Greg's Curse The computer woes that plagued me all last week (and on into this week) are nearly all cleared up, enough to edit last week's video anyway.  So, pretend it was last week...

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El Porto Fridays Rss

A week’s worth of storms have passed and just as the 72 hour post-rain window is about to open a new storm looms on the horizon.  What’s a surfer to do to stave off the cabin-fever, the wave-shakes?  Watch movies.  Along with watching Picaresque twice, I watched a new one called Lines From A Poem.  [...]

Have you even been out on your longboard and having the best day, the kind of day where you catch every wave you go for and get every ounce of stoke out of each ride? And then you think, “Man, I am taking this to the edge. I wonder how far I can [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Perch was one of the first films that caught my eye when I first started cruising The Surf Network.  I liked the artwork and I always like watching noseriding.  But The Perch did not deliver for me.  That is not to say there wasn’t plenty of noseriding, there was.
The description reads “A flowing, style [...]

One California Day comes from the dudes who gave us Singlefin: yellow. One California Day is a look at different bits of Californian coast, “capturing the California surfing experience through the surfers who live it.”
One thing that makes this film great is that it explores time, personalities, locales and history in the context of [...]