Editors Note:  This was written the day of the video.  My computer is still acting up and the video has some issues (weird bits of audio in there), but its time has come. So, imagine it’s last Friday… We had a hard time finding the waves today.  Mostly 1-2s that teased more than actually curled.  [...]

We been getting a lot of hits lately from people asking “is el porto a good place to learn?“  So, we though we’d address this question. No, El Porto is probably not the best place to learn to surf. El Porto has two major obstacles to learning. First, El Porto can get really crowded.  It’s [...]

I know I keep claiming that every weeks video is the worst.  But this week, I think we’ve completed a trilogy of lame.  Hopefully this video won’t be our Return of the Jedi or Godfather III. The waves were even smaller this week – mostly knee high with the rare waist high.  But the waves [...]

Yet another day of weakish waves.  We had a fun crew today, and we spent most of our time goofing off in the water and talking about wizards… We were also trying to beat each other into 1 and 2 ft waves.  Clean conditions, but small and weak.  As the tide dropped we managed to [...]

It was a pretty mellow weekend, we made it out both days for back to back morning sessions.  Its that time of year when the water and the air are about the same temperature, and its so nice to not have to wear a wet suit.  We took out the logs and got some good [...]

We are always trying to up the game here and El Porto Fridays.  Well today we bring you…VIDEO!  Unfortunately we also bring you…1 FOOT WAVES!  It wasn’t much of a good surfing day at El Porto today.  But it sure did make it easier for us to test out the camera in the smaller surf.  [...]

The was not the 4-7 we were hoping for.  For the most part the waves were 3-5, which would have been nice on a normal day. But because the forecast for huge surf the line up was super crowded and every wave was a scrapfest.  The best waves I caught were in the wee hours [...]

The ankle-biters were snappin’ like catfish today. And the waves that did have some “size” to them tended to close out before they began.  Due to the poor forecast we were down to the core Portoers (Highlighters), just Aaron, Josh and me. Still the water was warm so were were all out in trunks, which [...]

I had a really weird surf session today. It was one of those mornings where things just didn’t seem to go right. Even though the forecast looked lousy (and we should have known better) Peter & I decided to meet up at Sunset Blvd for a Dawn Patrol sesh. When we arrived at 5:30 it [...]

The cold is gone and after a week long dry spell, I finally got back out in the water today…and it was awesome.  I took my Harbour Quatro. (I didn’t trust my paddling power after a cold and a week of no surfing.)  Aaron brought comrade Kruisechev.  (We questioned his board choice so close to [...]

I’m still jazzed about the photos I took at El Porto yesterday.  Now, I may be stretching the “Surf Films” category a bit here, but there were so many awesome Josh pics from yesterday that I threw together the choice images and laid a pumping surf soundtrack behind them.  What you are seeing is Josh [...]

Happy July everyone! Trying to avoid the holiday crowd, we went for an early week surf sesh at El Porto today. Good crew today too – Josh, Jason and Aaron.  Unfortunately, I stayed out again to ensure that I fully get over my cold, rather than risk relapsing and missing more days.  But I did [...]

Super mega fun surf session today at El Porto.  The waves weren’t huge, but they were fun and constant.  I can’t even tell you how many rides I caught today (a score? a baker’s dozen?), but man was I beat when we called it quits.  The waves were these little, but strong 2-3+ foot rollers [...]

We finally got out to El Porto on a Friday today!  Though we were down by a Swayze – we were sans Josh.  Still Aaron and I braved the ocean without The Chicken Dancer.  As El Porto can often decieve, the waves looked pretty mediocre from the parking lot.  Once we were out in the [...]