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I Went to the World’s Smartest Surf Festival, And It Was Otherworldly
San Sebastian Surfilm Festibal is out of this world, brah. We’re at a presentation about surfing architecture, and I am sitting next to an architect. Naturally.His name is Carles. He’s 30 years old,...
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I Got A Pterygium Cut Out of My Eyeball, and I Learned These 20 Things
And it was all…yellow. He slid his knife into my eyeball, and I smiled. The feeling was euphoric. Which had less to do with the blade slicing through the mutated film invading my iris and more to do...
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When Sucking at Planning Works in Your Favor
I suck at planning. Suck at it. Totally and completely. What’s worse: my girlfriend isn’t any better. To complicate matters further, I’m a chronic FOMO subscriber. When gifted rare, valuable free time,...
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How Will Mick Fanning’s Great White Shark Attack Change Surfing (and Sport)...
Professional surfing will never be bigger than it was today. Never. Period. It’s not happening. Whatever aspirations the WSL has to expand surfing, well, take a good hard look at the numbers from July...
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WSL Speaks Out on Mick Fanning’s Shark Attack and Surfing’s Next Steps
Last Sunday we saw our collective nightmare unfold before our eyes. Mick Fanning survived a Great White Shark __________ in the final of a World Tour event. (It was very much an encounter/attack –...
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Steph Gilmore, Tom Curren, and Lea-Ann Curren Rock
Time spent on the North Shore tends to amplify walls. In that they either grow larger – or sort of dissolve.This situation illustrates the point perfectly. Sure, we’ve done some cool pieces...
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Robbie Maddison Just Rode a Dirt Bike at Teahupoo
The world is a shit-show of craziness. Especially the Internet. Every day, something happens that makes you scratch your head, question your life decisions, and wonder how we collectively got to where...
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Hiroto Ohhara Becomes First Japanese Surfer to Win U.S. Open of Surfing
Hiroto Oharra and Johanne Defay: Your 2015 Vans US Open of Surfing Champions. Photo: WSL/Sean Rowland You’ve got to love that oceans literally divide and connect us all. It’s precisely their magnitude...
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We Made a Book!
The Inertia Limited Edition 5-Year Anniversary BookbyThe InertiaComputer nerds, we are. So we had never printed anything before. But in celebrating a milestone as unlikely as five years, we knew we...
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Has It Really Been 5 Years?
Time changes you, yet it never really changes. Photo: Anthony Ghiglia In 1990, I was five. That’s when I had my first memory. It was December, and my pre-school teacher, Mrs. Crandle, pointed at a wall...
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#RADGEAR: Poler’s Snuggy-Style Napsack Makes Fall Camping Super Cuddly
Camping is fun! Photo: Poler I like to camp. I’m not good at camping. Not by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, the fifteen-or-so-minute interval before dusk and the moment I get the campfire lit...
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Meet Josema Odrioloza, the Man Who Gave the Earth Perfect Artificial Waves
If all goes according to plan, there will be 21 brand new perfect waves scattered around the planet within the next couple years. The contracts are signed and in various stages of development, though...
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$360M Can’t Be Wrong; Why Kyle Thiermann Redefines “Cool”
The coolest thing a person can do is boldly pursue his passions. Apathy is toxic. And over the years, (in an unfair, sweeping generalization based on a couple of decades of vigilant observation), the...
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I Surfed the Wavegarden, and Now I Believe in Artificial Waves
And….a cutback! “Sixty cents.”It costs sixty cents to create a 4-foot (1.2 meter) wave at the Wavegarden in Zarautz, Spain. Of course, that’s a variable price. It’s dependent upon the natural resources...
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Meet Kimi Werner: The Enlightened Woman Who Rode a Great White Shark
Most people around the world know Kimi Werner as “the woman who rode the back of a Great White Shark.” To be fair, Kimi Werner is most certainly that. When a camera captures video footage of you...
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Leah Dawson Might Save Women’s Surfing
If I had a dime for every time I heard the analogy that surfing is like a dance with the ocean, I would have at least enough money to buy a six-pack of craft beer. Which is to say that I have heard it...
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HEADSPACE: Dane Reynolds
“When it’s all said and done, what’s more important? That you were a cutthroat, ruthless competitor that everyone hated or that you were nice and had fun?” – Dane ReynoldsI want Dane Reynolds to tell...
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Mikala Jones Gets 21 Stitches to the Face after Wipeout at Off the Wall
“Compared to Evan it was minor,” said Mikala Jones. “It’s just one of those things. It was out of my control.” Photo: Courtesy Reef Yesterday morning, North Shore resident Mikala Jones received 21...
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Adriano De Souza’s World Title Started with $7, and He Deserves All the Glory
It’s been a long road to this moment for Adriano De Souza. Photo: WSL/Laurent Masurel Nobody wanted to write about Adriano De Souza today. Mick was the story. It was pre-ordained. The dude was attacked...
View ArticleGreg Long Discusses Possibly the Biggest Wave Ever Paddled
After watching Greg Long pull into what Dave Kalama called “one of the biggest waves ever paddled into,” at Jaws earlier this month, it’s hard to believe that three years ago (almost to the day), Long...
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