High School Surf League All Star Qualifiers named
Tuesday morning saw 4-foot, medium tide hollow tubes spitting both ways on the South side of the Hermosa Beach Pier for the South Bay High School high Surf League’s second chance, short board surf-off. League director John Joseph had two areas going to give everyone a chance to advance to the South Bay High School Surf League Championships to be held at the Hermosa pier on Saturday, April 9.
Aloha Leroy Grannis
During the Golden Age of surfing, in the 1960s, the pictures in people’s minds, worldwide, when they thought of the newly popular Hawaiian sport was almost certainly a photograph taken by Leroy Grannis. Dewey Weber cutting back at 22nd Street, Greg “The Bull” Noll at big Sunset, Mike Purpus at Makaha, “Mr. Pipeline” Gerry Lopez […]
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Mira Costa surfed against Palos Verdes High School at 27th Street in Manhattan Beach last Thursday for the South Bay Surf League Championship.
Pipeline: Classic resumes at Torrance Beach
Classic resumes at Torrance Beach The South Bay Surf League girls short and long board, body board and boys long board divisions of the Fall Classic took place last Saturday under ideal, summer like conditions. It was in the upper 80s, making for glassy mirror like conditions and perfect, four-foot tubes. Hundreds of spectators turned […]
Pipeline: Big and ugly opens South Bay Fall Classic
Big and ugly opens South Bay Fall Classic The South Bay Surf League Fall Classic got under way Saturday morning under grey skies, threatening rain, slight onshore winds, and a 7-foot high, incoming high tide with a 4- to 6-foot, thick bumpy shore break on the South side of the Hermosa Beach Pier. It was […]
Pipeline: Silva scores Trifecta in Surf League Finals
If Dayton Silva is ever given a plaque on the Hermosa Beach Surfer’s Walk of Fame, the first line will almost certainly read, “Only surfer ever to win the short board, long board and body board divisions in one South Bay High School Surf Championships.” The Mira Costa High surfer accomplished that feat Saturday morning, […]
Tiger Makin: Surf Walk of Fame inductee
James “Tiger” Makin seemed a little shy out of the water. But in the water he was always pushing the envelope. The bigger it got the more Tiger liked it. He’d take off deeper than anyone else behind the bowl, then race through the tube. In the early ‘60s Tiger, a 5-foot-9, 150 pound, freckle […]
A gift from Duke Kahanamoku
In the early 1960s I had two idols with two completely different personalities — Miki Dora and Duke Kahanamoku. Miki was surfing’s bad boy. He thrived on pissing everyone off. Duke, with his Aloha spirit, treated everyone with respect and grace. The Duke had a brand new Cadillac with a gold plated hood ornament of […]