“People surf in England?!?”
You may never have given it any thought. Indeed, if you’re anywhere other than Australia, California or Hawaii (or other popular surfing destinations), you’ll have heard a similar question about your local break. In the case of surfing in the UK, there happens to be a very vibrant surfing community, surfing [...]
If you want to increase your surfing knowledge, it’s a natural progression to move away from surf forecasts made in some bunker in Southern California by someone else in favor of your own ability to predict when waves are on the way. There may be no better way to do that than through a book [...]
I’ve been patiently saving the best for last.
After reviewing The Stormrider Guide Europe, The World Stormrider Guide Volume I and Volume II, I now get to dive into the waters of North America. The other guides pry open the coastal waters of foreign destinations, but The Stormrider Guide North America brings me to the continent [...]
My housemate’s girlfriend woke up before everyone else in the house and sat down at the kitchen table. Looking for a banal distraction, she fumbled through the various pieces of mail, crumbs, computer wires, week-old newspapers, and water glasses that seem to perpetually regenerate on our kitchen table regardless of how often you remove them. [...]
Take a moment and consider what it takes to write a surf guide for the world. Think of all that coastline; all of those point breaks and sandy beach breaks. How would you get pictures for all the breaks? What about the difficulty in mining the locals for vital information on best tides and ideal [...]
When I was first asked to review the 4th Edition of The Stormrider Surf Guide Europe, I paused to consider how many upset locals there must be on the European coastlines. Some guys wrote a travel guide for surf spots from Iceland to France to Maderia. I then promptly discovered they wrote two books for [...]
For any soul-searching surfer out there who hasn’t heard of Allan Weisbecker, I suggest you smarten up. The author, screenwriter, and former international drug runner has selflessly produced the surf travel masterpieces, “In Search of Captain Zero”, his most recent, “Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer’s Memoir and a Tale of Lost Surfer’s Paradise ” (available FREE as [...]
Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about surfing, a book comes along that piques your interest. SURFING The Manual: Advancedis that book. Jim Kempton, former editor and publisher of Surfer magazine has created a book that should serve as the bible to every grom, young and old, as well as [...]
Budhism. I don’t even know how to spell it, let alone know what Buddhism means.
Doesn’t matter. I learned about my own path to enlightenment and sageness by reading Jaimal Yogis’ new book, Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea.
Now, we know our fellow surfers and literary cognoscenti are accustomed to seeing [...]
“It’s his whole philosophy - health, yoga, surfing. Some people are famous for surfing, but he’s broader than that.” That’s the reason Dutch surfer Hanneke Van Ewijk came to get her copy of Laird Hamilton’s new book signed by the author in person at a recent book signing at Barnes and Noble.
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