Surfing

By: Ed Solt Known affectionately as “Dono” by friends and family, Donovan Lenker unexpectedly passed away July 20. The former

by Sean McDonald Gloomy skies and onshore winds are never what wave riders hope for. But contestants at Saturday’s surfing

Brazil’s Yuri Fresia put on an Olympic level performance in winning the Men’s Open at the International Surf Festival Surf Contest. “I just got here and I am having fun,” he said.

In the 1970s, Craig Peterson became accustomed to strange looks. He and fellow surf bum Kevin Naughton spent the era

After years away from the ocean, I found heaven in salt again and made a commitment to surf for a

First installment of sandpipertv.com. The surfing took place mostly in LA, with clips around CA and ending off on Oahu.

During the ceremony leading up to the unveiling of the sixth installment of the Hermosa Beach Mural Project last Saturday,

Dragging my board across the stretch of beach in the wind blown afternoon, I felt like I was wading through

Clark McTaggart has come out of retirement. Normally a warm water surfer, I met Clark last year in the summer

by Whitney Youngs Surfing and music seem to share at least one characteristic: the surrendering to an unbreakable and unbounded

This one armed surfing thing is hard. There’s barely any strength in my left shoulder, which was badly injured in

I’ve always loved water.  To be around it, in it, and hear it.  As a child, a bath would turn

Noah Collins surfing at home in LA during this winter’s El Niño while traveling to Hawaii and Nicaragua in between

Time. I wish I could harness it.  Slow down the rush of flowing through a wave and make the seconds

Henry Ford received a call 52 years ago from surf filmmaker Bruce Brown. Brown wanted Ford to join his fellow Jacobs Surfboards team rider Robert August in making a film about surfing around the world in pursuit of the perfect wave. Ford would need to pay his $1,400 airfare.

Last week, I wrote a little about a stoke meter, and I feel like I should elaborate a little bit.