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P.K. was born and raised in Del Mar, CA and grew up obsessively surfing between Grandview and the Reefs of La Jolla. After getting an overpriced degree, he abandoned the mainstream to live in the mountains of British Columbia, where he built and operated a bar in the ski town of Rossland, BC, home of Red Mountain. After dealing with one too many whisky-fed hockey fights, he returned to reality in Leucadia, where he currently works, plays, and lives. You will often see him checking the surf in his red tacoma that still has B.C. plates....F'n DMV 
To pee or not to pee: that is the question; Whether 'tis warmer in the lineup to suffer The stink and yellow of our own urine, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To shiver: to freeze; No more; and by with a quick piss we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation... ...Nothing like a little Hamlet ripoff to preface a nice user poll on peeing in your wetsuits. Smelly booties anyone? -P.K. Keep … [Read more...]
After two years of living the landlubbing lifestyle in Rossland, British Columbia and enjoying all the pursuits that living deep in the mountains could afford, I yearned for the salty taste of the ocean and cold Mexican Beer. So we threw a camper on my biodiesel-fed F350, packed up all our dusty surfboards, and pointed the rig south. We spent the next 40 days on the road and had some amazing times, some great waves, and about 300 frosty (or luke warm) Pacificos. So years ago, back … [Read more...]
There are definitely advantages to going to your local gym after work to try to get in shape. Your gym has every machine and weight setup you could possibly need to get a great workout, not to mention the scenery is usually pretty good. But once you're there, and finally not distracted for long enough to actually get to your own workout, and you finally find a free machine or benchpress, what do you do? With so many options and fancy machines it's hard to focus and be productive with your … [Read more...]
Found this total monstrosity for sale in craigslist. Looks like someone took a wood saw and some spraypaint to half of a longboard....sad … [Read more...]
I guess this thing is as much like surfing as that 2 stroke powered jetboard that we've seen on this site a few times. Not effected by the economy and you wanna buy a new toy? Clicky the linky. … [Read more...]
DailyStoke.com was invited to attend the Billabong XXL Big Wave awards - so my photographer and I scored some all access media passes to the ridiculous festivities surrounding the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards. Freakin' sweetness. If you ignored my recommendation to watch the webcast, here's the recap from a first person perspective. After fighting 2 hours of S.D. to O.C. Friday afternoon commuter traffic, we finally arrived at the Grove Theater in the shadow of Angel's Stadium. Unfortunately … [Read more...]
So if you're like me, and your GoPro ran out of batteries right as you got whipped into a 65 foot bomb at Cortez Bank, then you probably didn't get an invite to the event of all events in the big wave world this year. There is however, a consolation that will allow you to live vicariously through the likes of Brian Conley, Greg Long, and all the other chargers that have bigger cojones than you have, (and thus attend cooler parties than you do.) You can check out all the festivities simply … [Read more...]
Surfer Magazine's Scott Bass caught up with the Cardiff local for a quickie phone interview to confirm that Rob has returned to the homeland (for now). SURFER MAG INTERVIEW Love you Rob. … [Read more...]
I have a confession to make... In my youth, I was a convicted wetsuit abuser. Back when my parents bankrolled my surfing addiction I would routinely stomp my suit into the dirt, ball it up, and chuck it into the sealed trunk of my Volvo. There in the dark it would stay until I squirmed into the sandy, wet, fungus prolificator before my next session. Average lifespan of my neoprene? Sadly, one season.... Now that I am paying for my own hi-tech suits worth between 3 and 4 $bills, I fully … [Read more...]
Surfing HQ wrote a new blog post: Please don’t drop in, friends 6 hours, 16 minutes ago · View
Its time for the best caption contest, post a comment for the best caption for this photo. Winner will be chosen by the dailystoke staff, and will get bragging rights for eternity.
Pro Logger wrote a new blog post: How to Perform a Fin First Takeoff! Tips from a Pro 1 day, 8 hours ago · View
This is another manoeuvre that has been labelled as simply a “trick” and “not a functional manoeuvre” in the competition arena. However, Joel Tudor frequently pulled them off in competitions in good sized surf with no leash – just because he could! They are a fun manoeuvre to try and probably one of the first [...]
Mr. Kook wrote a new blog post: Illegal Surfboard Porn from Moonlight Glassing 2 days, 6 hours ago · View
It’s delicious. Nice show of how things get done at Moonlight Glassing. Drooling.
Can pretty girls surf?
Surfing is a male dominated sport. A statement like that is not easily contested, especially when most line-ups around the world have a pretty uneven ratio of board shorts to bikinis. Lets face it, even the pages of Surfer display this sort male centered mindset, as article after article discusses the trials and tribulations of Jordy Smith or Joel Parkinson, while relegating the fairer sex to showing off their derrières in Reef ads.
Keep in the mind though, that there is no doubt that women can surf. There are magazines, clothing companies, gear, and even a portion of the ASP tour relegated solely for women. Hell, even Gidget got her own movie. Nevertheless, when it comes down to it, men tend to have more say in the surfing community than women do.
That is simply because most of the big name surfers throughout all of surfing history have been men, and not women. Whether it was Laird Hamilton at Teahupoo in 2000, or Duke Kahanamoku at the turn of the century, men have been at the focal point of this sport. This concept inherently implies that men have committed more to surfing then women have, and thus also inferring that men have more surfing talent than women do, partially explaining the attitude of male surfers around the world. With that being said, can women come to influence surfing as much as men do?
That answer lies with a girl named Maya Gabeira. A native of Ipanema, Brazil, Maya began surfing when she was fourteen. She is now twenty-three, and is credited with riding the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman (a fifty-foot bomb at Dungeons South Africa). She has won the Billabong XXL award four years in a row, surfed at many of the major big wave spots around the world, and to top it off, she is incredibly beautiful. So there you have it, pretty girls can not only surf, they can surf better then most men can. It may be a stretch, but it is entirely possible that a woman like Maya (or another talented female surfer like Layne Beachley) could make the next big splash in the surfing world. That surfing talent is hidden somewhere in that extra X chromosome, it’s just up to them to uncover it and show off a bit.
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