One Track Mind takes a look at how surfers focus on winning events on the world tour.  Interviews with each generation of competitive surfers from the 1970s on provide and interesting insight into the mind set each surfer uses to focus.  Directed by Chris Malloy for Woodshed Films, One Track Mind is not a typical [...]

Watched quite a few surf movies this weekend. One of which was Pipeline Masters. The Pipline Masters competition is one of the most famous and popular single surfing competitions.  So much so, that Pipe is traditionally the final stop on the ASP World Tour where the World Champ is crowned.  (And there have been quite [...]

I was just re-watching A Broke Down Melody, a film by Chris and Emmet Malloy, again.  What struck me this time was just how vibrant this film always seems to me.  All the colors, especially the blues, seems a bit richer and all the smiles seem a bit bigger. The film is full of positivity [...]

Thicker than Water was a bit of a disappointment for me. After digging on The September Sessions, I was hoping for some more of that same magic (but a whole lot longer). But Thicker than Water just didn’t grab me. The film always seemed a bit lack-luster and the surfing wasn’t inspiring. It was good [...]

It was totally awesome.  I was totally there.  The waves were still huge from the giant swell sent to Huntington courtesy of a Tahitian storm.  Many of the massive wave would just wall out, crash and blow mist up the beach. The US Open was down to the Round of 16 which meant 2 man [...]

My wife and I went down to watch the men’s round of 16 at the Hurley US Open yesterday.  (Unfortunately we weren’t able to stay for the women’s semis and finals, which was a bummer.)  But the waves were still going berserk and the jet skis (PWCs) were still towing competitors out to the line [...]

There was a lull right at the beginning of the heat.  Each surfer had one waves and there there was a good 5-10 minutes of waiting.  It was starting to look like the biggest second wave was going to take the heat.  But then the swell rolled in and Kelly Slater exploded with a 9.3.  [...]

Originally I had gone down to the pier to take some photos of Kelly Slater in his first heat at the US Open. (Keep track of the heats here.  Live video coming on Thursday.)  But then a wicked fog bank rolled in and the competitions got stalled.  I waited for it to lift for a [...]

“The waves were as good as waves get.” As I’d expect from The Moonshine Conspiracy (turned Woodshed Films), The September Sessions is rife with great waves and great surfing. The premise is that Kelly Slater, Rob Machado and friends take a break from the competitive surfing circuit and travel to Sumatra just to surf. No [...]