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Letters to the Editor: 3-4-2021

Keep on biking Dear ER: These bike lanes are awesome (Hermosa Beach trades car lanes for bike lanes,” ER Feb.

Localism at the Manhattan Beach pier triggers racial reckoning for surfers

On President’s Day morning, a middle-aged, white surfer hassled two 24-year-old Black surfers in the line-up at the Manhattan Beach Pier. He told them to go surf in El Porto. Then, more pointedly, he told them to go surf Bruce’s Beach, a Blacks only beach in the 1920s and more recently, the site of Black Lives Matter protests

Pagan wins South Bay Boardriders,/Spyder inaugural virtual surf contest

In previous years, the SBBC contest series has been held throughout the winter on Saturdays in El Porto. But this winter, because of the pandemic, rather than surf together in heats, in front of judges, competitors are surfing individually, in front of video cameras. 

Don’t Flinch: from punk rocker to Redondo fishing captain

Nick “Flinch” Padilla claims to have never put on a dry wetsuit, a testament to being in the ocean just about every day since he learned to surf. 

That is not to say he’s had a healthy life.

He smoked pot for the first time at age nine. By high school he was drinking heavily and taking speed, two drugs that seemed to go well with his two other obsessions: music and surfing. 

When he was 14, he and his friends founded STDs, a punk band that was still performing locally, prior to the pandemic.

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Top 6 Tips to Get Into Night Surfing

Surfing, this sporting discipline has been gaining in popularity for several years now and is attracting more and more people

El Porto posse: A surfer, a diver and a Realtor

The most powerful of the six back to back Northwest swells was forecast to hit Mavericks last Sunday, Jan 8. Three longtime El Porto friends, big wave surfer Bob Sievers, photographer Ken Pagliaro and boat captain Brooke Basse rearranged their lives to be there.

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