Audiowaves: The Traveling Wilburys

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Lowdown

Mon, Nov 05 2007 | 07:36pm

By: Andrew Ogren

The Traveling Wilburys Collectionwww.travelingwilburys.comWhat started as a spur of the moment collaboration between rock gods George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Jeff Lynne turn...

Enjoy It While It Lasts

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Closeout

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 03:28am

By: Zach Plopper

Summer means different things to different people. To some, summer is slip and slides and lemonade, euro trips and daily hangovers, lake boats and wake riding. To others, like myself, summer means ...

Jen Smith Wins A World Championship; Keeps the Title in San Diego

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Surf Contests

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 03:34am

By: SurfShot Crew

Jen Smith Wins A World Championship; Keeps the Title in San DiegoThe 2007 ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship concluded July 15 in Biarritz France, with a jubilant Jennifer Smith taking ...

Vipe Desai

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Contributors

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 03:38am

By: SurfShot Crew

Vipe Desai is President of Propaganda, a leading board sports marketing and management agency, and the founder of Project BLUE. With long-standing relationships with board sports brands and people ...

“Heroes & Martyrs” by Bad Religion

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Surfer Profiles

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 03:44am

By: Tara Stone

“Heroes & Martyrs” by Bad ReligionTwenty-seven years and fourteen albums later, the punk intelligentsia continues to record empowering anthems that will ignite any Warped Tour crowd...

Buy A Better Future

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Eco News

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 03:55pm

By: Vipe Desai

Some of you reading this may already be participating in helping to protect our oceans. Your participation may be in the form of donating money. Or maybe it’s your time, helping to clean up y...

Chris Waring

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Get to Know

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:00am

By: Zach Plopper

You can learn a lot about someone just by being around him in another country. Outside of the bubble, personality is broadcasted through actions and reactions. Two years back, I spent a good couple...

Tiger Army Never Dies

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Surf Music

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:06pm

By: Andrew Ogren

If you’ve never been to a psychobilly show, add it to your list of things to do before you die. The flat tops are always well groomed and greased, the ladies’ lipstick is red as cherrie...

Everything You Need to Know About AERIAL SURFING In Under A Minute

Filed under: Issue 49

What: In A Minute

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:08am

By: Zach Keenan

December 1975: Kevin Reed, Santa Cruz – Hailed as originator of aerial surfing, earned first published aerial photograph with cover of Surfing Magazine.Early 1980’s: Davey Smith, Santa ...

Finding That Middle Ground

Filed under: Issue 49

What: inDesign

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:17am

By: Patrick Zabrocki

Surfers don’t need a calendar to tell them when fall is setting in. The occasional southern hemisphere mixed with the north pacific systems starting to rev up are signs that Mother Nature is ...

The Party That Will Change Surfing

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Ecologic

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:25pm

By: Evan Fontaine

Grossing over $550,000 in its first three years, Liquid Nation Ball, the brainchild of Fernando and Santiago Aguerre, is fast becoming, if not already, one of the largest charitable, surf-based hum...

Josh Sleigh, Aerial Surfing boosts its possibilities with new technique called “Grinchi

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Innovator

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:27am

By: Zach Keenan

Aerial surfing is the future of surfing.  But what is the future of aerial surfing?  The answer is Josh Sleigh and the introduction of “grinching” into waves.  “I f...

My American Heart

What: Writers

/ss//index.html Hometown: San DiegoSound: Alt-Rock, Pop-PunkLine-up: Larry Soliman (lead vocals), Jesse Barrera (guitar/vocals), Dustin Hook (bass), Steven Oira (drums), Matthew VanGasbeck (guitar/vocals) Albums: ...

NSSA Nationals

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Mini Feature

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:34am

By: Zach Plopper

The 2007 NSSA Nationals, held earlier this summer at two of Southern California's primo south swell magnets, was representative of several new trends emerging in U.S surfing. It also resurrecte...

Brett Simpson

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Keep An Eye On

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:38am

By: Zach Plopper

At 11 years of age, Brett Simpson was considered by his Garden Grove peers to more likely be an all-star football or baseball player than a world-renowned professional surfer. Eleven years later, S...

The Boost i425t

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Lowdown

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:42pm

By: SurfShot Crew

The Boost Mobile i425 handsets are the thinnest Walkie-Talkie enabled Phones ever produced by Motorola for the iDEN Network, and the First to be featured in Boost Mobile's new environmentally-f...

Curious George

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Surf Story

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:52am

By: Don Balch

   Ever been around an extraordinary person? Have you encountered an individual where afterwards you thought to yourself, Wow, that was awe-inspiring, impressive or any other such complim...

Peru

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Travel

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 04:57am

By: SurfShot Crew

With over 2000 kilometers of coastline bordering the Pacific, spanning from the Ecuadorian border (latitude 4S) to the Chilean border (latitude 19S), Peru’s geographical positioning for swell...

Under the Radar

Filed under: Issue 49

Pete Mathews, the filmmaker who created Shades of Bali, brings another beautiful surf video that expands into South Africa, Morocco, and other parts of Indonesia to complement his incredible footag...

Sunset Cliffs

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Viewfinder

Location: Sunset Cliffs

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 05:04am

By: Don Balch

December 21, 2005 was one of those maxing California surf days with good weather and I wanted to document a number of different San Diego areas. A starting stop on my hit l...

The Undisputed Truth by Brother Ali

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Watermark

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 05:58pm

By: Andrew Ogren

The Undisputed Truthwww.rhymesayers.comBrother Ali is by far the most impressive legally blind albino Muslim rapper I’ve heard to date. Okay, well maybe he’s the first. Ali’s disa...

23 by Blonde Redhead

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Watermark

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 06:07pm

By: Tara Stone

www.blonde-redhead.comSome people believe the number “23” has mystical connotations. Regardless if you are one of those people or not, you’ll be compelled to this mysterious 23. E...

An End Has A Start by Editors

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Watermark

Tue, Nov 06 2007 | 06:17pm

By: Tara Stone

How Sweep It Is, U.S. Men and Women take gold at Summer X

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Surf Contests

Fri, Nov 09 2007 | 10:35am

By: SurfShot Crew

Puerto Escondido, Mexico - In the final day of the X Games Surfing competition, the U.S. scored the first 10 in X Games Surfing history and completed the sweep of the World Team by claiming a gold ...

David Pu’u

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Contributors

Fri, Nov 09 2007 | 10:43am

By: SurfShot Crew

A former professional surfer based in Santa Barbara, Pu’u made the transition from board builder and CEO of a surf industry company to photography and has since built a prolific career as an ...

,��Existentialism” by The Philippians

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Surfer Profiles

Fri, Nov 09 2007 | 10:48am

By: Tara Stone

This electronica duo equates its ambient mix with ‘silent joy’ and ‘Tokyo in the day.’ Listen to this acoustic/sample-based track on their debut album Goodnight Life, and yo...

“Kid on My Shoulders” by White Rabbits

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Surfer Profiles

Fri, Nov 09 2007 | 10:52am

By: Tara Stone

Recently introducing their first full-length Fort Nightly, the Brooklyn six-piece spices up their NYC rock with calypso rhythms, sinister piano, tambourine bashing and dramatic vocals. Not cutesy. ...

Greenlight Surfboard Supply

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Product News

Fri, Nov 09 2007 | 11:15am

By: Evan Fontaine

Who, at one point, hasn’t though about shaping themselves a board? Most of us never try or we watch as our friends, our dads, or our friends’ dads muddle around in their makeshift, gara...

Solar Recover

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Product News

Fri, Nov 09 2007 | 11:20am

By: Rob Chalfant

It’s a skin recovery system that helps treat dry and sunburned skin. When you get out of the surf or sun, spray the product on your skin, rub it in and it’ll help prevent dryness and pe...

July 2007

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Where Were You

Tue, Dec 11 2007 | 08:20am

By: SurfShot Crew

The Ranch

Filed under: Issue 49

What: Dropping In

Thu, Dec 13 2007 | 11:35am

By: Todd Saunders