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Legend of the Iron Seahorse
This might be the world’s first-ever Western surf flick. It goes a little something like this. There once was a gal – a cowgirl surfer, to be exact, named Leah Dawson. She believed people can do...
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Chevrolet’s New Bolt EV Might Be the Perfect Eco-Friendly Vehicle for Surfers
The Chevrolet Bolt EV. You might never visit a gas tank again. (Photo: Martin Klimek/Chevrolet) I might be the least qualified human to test-drive a new vehicle and speak with any degree of authority...
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Mick Fanning Just Discovered a 3-Mile Long, Perfect, Barreling Wave
“I’m shaking. I’m freaking out.” That’s Mick Fanning. He’s talking about a brand-spankin’ new (to the public) sand-bottom right that according to Rip Curl “measures five kilometers long, breaks 20...
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This Is What a Pure Surf Festival Looks Like
Photo: Sarah West Thirty-four surfers stand on the beach with longboards pointing perpendicular to the sand. It’s an eclectic mix. Guys and gals from countries around the world mixed in with Byron Bay...
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Rob and Sophie Machado Welcome You to Their Brand New Shop
This is what Encinitas royalty looks like. Rob Machado, king of style, and his wife, Sophie, have teamed up to launch Salt Collection, a shop for men and women in their hometown of Encinitas. Sophie...
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Longboarding Icon Belinda Baggs Might Be the Perfect Surf Mom
Belinda Baggs is standing on the beach holding her five-year-old son Rayson by the stretchy rubber of his wetsuit collar. He was struggling to slide into his suit, so mom’s using a little trick called...
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Kai Lenny Is Bringing the Hydrofoil (and Surfing) To New Heights
Kai Lenny just got stopped by a stranger for the third time in nine minutes shuffling from the parking lot to the ocean at Sunset Beach. That means that every 20-some yards, a human being enters the...
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Meet the Man Who’s Protecting and Celebrating Byron Bay’s Rich Surf Culture
The lights just turned off, and we’re locked inside. At first, we thought we tripped the alarm and the Byron police force might be rounding the bend any minute, but it had been pouring violently on...
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Kalani and Oleema Miller Built a Bikini Empire that All Started with Surfing
Panda almost drowned today. She was fearlessly following Oleema into the surf at Pupukea, when the ocean overtook her. Luckily, Oleema and Kalani Miller have a couple lifetimes of ocean experience...
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Pro Surfer Lauren Hill Takes the Piss Out of Sex in Women’s Surfing
“Exactly what hydrodynamic benefit do you gain from giving yourself a wedgie anyway?” Lauren Hill, a pro surfer who earned a degree in Environmental and Social Science from Stetson University and...
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Lisa Andersen Tears Up at the Launch of Her New Roxy Collection
Lisa Andersen was in tears. The weight of reflecting on her improbably monumental career suddenly hit her like a ton of bricks, and her eyes began to well up, bulging with liquid. Gravity pulled a few...
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The Graduate: Pro Surfer Kiana Fores Is Changing the Spicoli Stereotype
According to the WSL, there are zero professional surfers on the World Tour with a college degree – or who have attended college at all. Whether it’s characters like Spicoli from Fast Times at...
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President Trump Explains How to Claim in His First Ever State of Surfing Address
In a rare break where President Trump stole time away from tweeting videos of himself punching a man with the CNN logo cleverly superimposed on his face outside of a wrestling ring, he was generous...
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Yvon Chouinard Explains How He Built Patagonia
“If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. ‘Cause they’re saying, ‘You know, this sucks. I wanna do it my own way.’ That’s what the entrepreneur does. They just say,...
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Donald Trump Explains Why He Loves Sex Wax So Much
In his second ever State of Surfing Address, President Donald Trump directs his attention to one of surfing’s greatest gifts: that intoxicating coconut scent that tickles the nostrils and pleases the...
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VanFiles: Portraits of Life on Wheels
We’re thrilled to premiere VanFiles, an original collab with our friends at Lifeproof that paints portraits of rad humans living life on wheels. We visit characters ranging from iconic surfer and...
View ArticleThird Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins Joins Jimmy Miller Foundation to Support...
The sky was gold. It was rose. I was taking sips of it through my nose. Literally. It was all happening. Stephan Jenkins, lead singer of Third Eye Blind, was guiding a veteran with PTSD to the ocean...
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Kelly Slater’s Commentary on the Bachelorette Finale Is ON POINT
We watch it too, braddah. We watch it too. Image: The Inertia/ABC If you’re anything like Kelly Slater, me, or 7.47 million viewers around the world who love to watch couples sort through their...
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Tom Carroll Protested Bigotry in 1985; I Welcome More Surfers to Do the Same...
Tom Carroll. Legend. Photo: Alex Smolowe/The Inertia On Friday, I sat down with Tom Carroll to discuss an important decision he made more than 30 years ago for a project we have on the horizon. In...
View ArticleWe Had a Caricature Artist Draw a Bunch of Pro Surfers at the US Open of Surfing
A few weeks ago, Señor Dylan Heyden, The Inertia’s Associate editor, had a brilliant idea to throw a little twist into the standard pro-surfer-contest-interview format: Add a caricature artist into...
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