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Follow us to 1st Street in Manhattan Beach with Derek Levy (video)

By Brad Jacobson / February 3, 2019

In this episode host Brad Jacobson and guest Derek Levy grab a Toyota Tacoma and head through Hermosa Beach and share stories with Derek Levy, ending up at 1st Street in Manhattan Beach. Derek is an incredible surfer, chiropractor, property manager, band member, philanthropist, father and husband. We’re still amazed he had time to be…

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Best Chiropractor: Derek Levy, DC

By Kevin Cody / March 12, 2017

Best Chiropractor: Derek Levy, DC

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Dr. Derek Levy in his Hermosa Beach office. Photo by Kevin Cody

Best Chiropractor: Derek Levy, DC

By Kevin Cody / March 10, 2016

Unlike most doctors, Chiropractor Derek Levy describes his patients as generally healthy. “People at the beach lead a healthy lifestyle. So when they come to see me it’s usually for minor aches and pains that are easy to take care of. I deal with neck and lower back pain all day long.

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Hermosa Surfer’s Walk of Fame inductee Derek Levy embodies the surfing spirit

By Kevin Cody / April 2, 2015

No one embodies the spirit of surfing more fully than Derek Levy, who will be inducted into the Hermosa Beach Surfer’s Walk of Fame this Saturday, April 4 at the Hermosa Beach pier.

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Dr. Derek Levy in his Hermosa Beach office. Photo by Kevin Cody

Best chiropractor: Dr. Derek Levy

By Easy Reader Staff / March 14, 2013

Derek Levy is celebrating his 30th year as the cheerful chiropractor who still makes house calls, earning our readers’ trust by straightening out their spinal kinks and helping them achieve overall health. When Levy works on a spine, he’s also healing nerves and muscles. When a person’s bones are put into place, the nerves are…

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Chiropractor Derek Levy

Best Chiropractor: Dr. Derek Levy, DC

By Easy Reader Staff / March 9, 2012

Chiropractor Derek Levy describes himself as a meat and potato kind of doctor who makes house calls and insists on explaining to patients the cause of their problems before treating them. “There’s nothing magical about what we do,” he insisted during a visit to his Hermosa Beach office. “Chiropractors work with three basic parts of…

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Breakwall session featuring Derek Levy, Shaun Burrell, Derek Vaickus, Greg McEwan, the Luhrsen family, Dayton Silva [PHOTOS]

By Brad Jacobson / February 5, 2011

[smugmug url=”http://civiccouch.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=15598263_oy2Xv&format=rss200″] Breakwall session featuring Derek Levy, Shaun Burrell, Derek Vaickus, Greg McEwan, the Luhrsen family, Dayton Silva and more. Photos by Brad Jacobson

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Redondo Beach Breakwall redux: Levy and Meistrell

By Kevin Cody / January 18, 2019

One week after Big Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2018, when Redondo Breakwall surfers Derek Levy and Randy Meistrell caught a “once in a decade” swell, with 30 foot faces, a second “once in a decade swell” came through.

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Big Wednesday at Redondo Beach Breakwall: Levy and Meistrell

By Kevin Cody / January 18, 2019

Breakwall veterans Derek Levy and  Randy Meistrell recall Big Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2018 at the Redondo Beach Breakwall.

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Levy wins South Bay Big Wave Challenge, high school surfers honored

By Kevin Cody / May 2, 2018

Big Wave Challenge, high school surf league awards presented at South Bay Boardriders.

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Hermosa Surfer’s Walk of Fame inducts Barela, Benavidez, Jarvis, Levy

By Kevin Cody / April 9, 2015

The 2015 Hermosa Beach Surfer’s Walk of Fame inductions at the Hermosa pier on Saturday could have passed for a Mira Costa 30th-year class reunion. Inductees Derek Levy, Mike Benevidez, Chris Barela and Dennis Jarvis all attended the high school in the late ‘70s, before surfing was an official school sport.

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Levy Beach Decathlon celebrates South Bay beach culture

By Easy Reader Staff / September 12, 2013

[scrollGallery id = 741] by Noah Levy Photos by Ken Pagliaro (KenPagliaro.com) When people ask why my dad founded the Derek V. Levy Beach Decathlon, I find myself stumbling for an explanation. Both the decathlon and myself celebrated our 23rd birthdays this summer. I suspect the Aztecs had similar trouble explaining to the Spaniards why…

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2012 Hermosa Beach Surfing Walk of Fame inductees Mark Levy and Steve Wilkings

By Kevin Cody / April 13, 2012

Mark Levy spoke of fellow Surfing Walk of Fame inductee Steve Wilkings’ years at Surfer Magazine as the halcyon days. But though Levy was a generation younger, he too enjoyed at least the tail end of surfing’s golden era, from the late ‘50s through the early ‘70s. Levy won Junior U.S. Surfing Championships in 1974.…

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Levy, Wilkings inducted into Hermosa Surfers Walk of Fame

By Kevin Cody / April 8, 2012

Mark Levy spoke of fellow Surfing Walk of Fame inductee Steve Wilkings’ years at Surfer Magazine as the halcyon days.

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Surfing Santa Rides Again in 2024

By Jefferson Graham / November 28, 2024

For the 46th year in a row, the Easy Reader brings you the return of Surfing Santa, featuring Hermosa Beach chiropractor Derek Levy in the wet suit.  As always, we brought the cameras to Levy’s preferred surf spot for the shoot, 1st Street in Manhattan Beach to document him in action. Levy is the fourth…

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Hermosa Beach 20th Anniversary Surfer Walk of Fame

By Kevin Cody / May 1, 2024

Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame inductees (foreground) John Teague, Derek Levy, Dennis Jarvis, and Pat Ryan. (Standing) Steve Mangiagli, Whitney Guild, Peff Eick, Daryl Dickey, John Leninger, Don Craig, Sonny Vardeman, Scott Daley, Chris Bredesen, John Joseph, Greg Browning, David Nuuhiwa, Mike Balzer, Chris Frohoff, Kelly Gibson, John Baker, and Ted Robinson. Photo by…

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