Surfing

by Paul Teetor The Los Angeles Dodgers, riding the tidal wave of two consecutive World Series titles for the first time in franchise history, are heroes to most LA sports fans. But to the owners and fans of the other 29 Major League Baseball teams, they spend like drunken tech bros who have bought themselves […]

by Rick Dickert I first learned about the warming of the waters off of Peru, and its impact on the South Bay in 1983, during my freshman year at Redondo Union High School. Because my friends and I surfed, I was already deeply entrenched in the world of weather. I tracked it with my backyard […]

Photos by Steve Gaffney (SteveGaffney.com) [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”45″ gal_title=”Queen of the South Bay 2026″] by Kira Ivarsdottir Nearly 200 surfers participated in the third annual Queen of the South Bay, held Saturday, May 30 at 42nd Street in El Porto.  But the emphasis wasn’t on competition. “Queen of the South Bay was created to encourage women […]

by Will Watson SB Boardriders club The South Bay Boardriders Club (SBBC) team travelled South to San Clemente over the May 13 weekend to compete against 12 of the country’s top teams in the West Coast Boardriders Wheat Cup, and the  U.S. Board Riders National Championships. Their third place finish in the Wheat Cup, and […]

by Kevin Cody Keoni Boyd moved from his native Hawaii to Hermosa Beach in 1983, and never returned home. In fact, he rarely left Hermosa’s, block square Cypress industrial district, where he airbrushed and repaired surfboards for four decades. Keoni passed away of natural causes in February, at age 70. A paddleout in his menory […]

by Will Watson Photos by Steve Gaffney (SteveGaffney.com) SB Boardriders Club The Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame weekend was capped off Sunday by the Subaru Pacific South Bay Boardriders Club (SBBC) Surf Series #7 sponsored by Tower 12. Eva Mota was the star of the weekend.  After winning the Greg Browning Memorial Youth Film […]

by Kevin Cody Five South Bay surfers, all mostly unknown by the local surfing community, were inducted into the Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame on Saturday, April 25. Four of the five moved away from the South Bay.  Surfboard shaper Pat Rawson moved to Hawaii. Shaper Tyler Hatzikian moved to San Marcos. Lonnie Argabright […]

by Will Watson SB Boardriders After a month’s break, the South Bay Boardriders Club (SBBC) Subaru Pacific Contest Series resumed in El Porto on Saturday, April 18, hosted by Wave Rave. Why does a snowboard shop sponsor a surf contest? “We’re a part of a year-round board-riding community,”  Wave Rave Assistant Store Manager, Brandon Kawashima […]

by Will Watson SB Boardriders club The 22nd Annual Hermosa Surfer Walk of Fame inductions take place this Saturday, April 25, starting at 11 a.m. on Pier Plaza. This year’s recipients are former pro surfer Laurie Wilson, former team surfer and Haggerty’s Surf Club co-founder Lonnie Argabright, surfboard shapers Tyler Hatzikian and Pat Rawson, and […]

Women’s water programs, public art, historical preservation added to traditional surf contests by Tom Horton SBBC President In November 2026, The South Bay Boardrider’s Club (SBBC), a local non-profit, volunteer-based organization, will be celebrating its 17th anniversary.  Much has evolved over these years. It seems we add a new program annually to serve the South […]

by Kevin Cody John Van Hamersveld taught a class called “Making Images” from 1975 to 1982 at the California Institute of the Arts. The class was broken up by semester into line drawing and painting. He quit, he wrote in the catalogue to his 2013 “Drawing Attention” exhibit at Cal State Northridge, “because the design […]

by Kevin Cody For a kid who lived just a few blocks from the bluff above Torrance Beach, Lonnie Argabright was late to surfing.  His first ocean obsession was fishing.  Beginning when he was 8, when he wasn’t in school, his dad would give him 50 cents for live bait and lunch, and drop him […]