Surfing Ft. Point is mostly experienced during the Fall/Winter season when BIG n’ Raw Alaskan swells need organizing and protection from wind, but on occasion we get strong enough pulses during foggy Summer to turn ‘The Point’ ON. Go ahead and Google ‘Ft. Point Surfing’ images for very picturesque photos and videos. This photo, courtesy [...]
Just finished going through Fit to Surf: Surfers guide to Strength and Conditioning
by Rocky Snyder (Gotta love that name!). Fit to surf is a good primer on surfing fitness, with careful consideration of what a surfer should do to increase his or her flexibility and paddling ability, particularly when the weather gets nasty and you [...]
So if my recommendations for downdog still hasn’t done anything to relieve your surf stiffy, then you might want to try some yoga poses that have a slightly less sexual connotation. There are two other yoga poses that I recommend to my surf clients who are ailed with sore muscles in the neck: shoulder [...]
Damn - a stiff neck from paddling is particularly common among surf kooks, but even the pros suffer from this casualty on occasion. Admittedly, it isn’t as serious as losing a limb to a shark attack and being stung by a jellyfish. That said, why suffer from stiff-paddle-neck-surfer syndrome simply because you are [...]
Is it just me or did two counter-culture, non-materialistic activities, namely surfing and yoga, suddenly become mainstream? And somewhere along their path to stardom, yoga and surfing got married and went honeymooning to every destination with a beach and good surf. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then do a quick [...]