Recent Rants

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In honor of the 75th anniversary

Four-time ASP Women’s World Champion and current ASP Women’s World No. 1, Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 24, is en route to reclaiming the throne this season, and the final two events should prove an all-time showdown between the current frontrunner and momentum-building challenger Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), 21.

Surfers are known for their love and passion for Mother Nature. Ocean, sand, salt and waves are always in contact with the human body and many riders think life is better in boardshorts.

Michael Stewart is a talker. Get him started on a subject he loves, and he may be at it for hours, holding forth with infectious enthusiasm. One of the subjects he seems to love the best these days is surfing — specifically, how to help surfing live up to its image as an ocean-friendly activity by promoting the manufacture and use of the greenest surfboards available.

For nine days beginning Friday night, Muni's busiest line - the N-###### - will shut down while a well-worn stretch of rail is replaced. The Metro line's nearly 40,000 daily passengers, already accustomed to crowded commutes, will have to pack onto buses or find another way to get downtown and back.

"Good thing the location turtle took the name out of the muniline!"

"Har...yes, I'm sure some little old Asian lady is thankful for that turtle bleep...certain ..."

"The bike's the thing....maybe I should make a rickshaw and charge....I probably could reti ..."

"it gets crowded when they cut back service..."

"With the way they've been handling the sand out here this is all going to be a moot point ..."

Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro / Brazil -- At the 4th event on the 2012 ASP Prime calendar, 96 of the world’s best surfers battled in epic conditions to begin the Quiksilver Saquarema Prime presented by Coca-Cola.

BURRRRRR!

For anyone who's ever complained about spongers, longboarders, sup's, valleys, kooks, yuppies, beginners, non-locals, pop-ups, funboards, windsurfers, kitesurfers, leashes, absence of leashes, $900-made-in-Taiwan-off-the-rack-boards, astrodek, webbed gloves, dayglo wetsuits, zinka, surfing helmets, Quiksilver, funboards, contests, pro-surfers, soul-surfers, retro-surfers too-many-surfers, emo surf

"pretty funny and good job on the art. Not that anyone or anything needs to be added, but ..."

"best rant evar"

"you forgot hipsters and blow-ins...."

"Oh gosh, in this season of GRUMP, this takes the cake :) Very pleased!"

"Not surprising the corn fed tranny riding the New Holland would drop in on the John Deere ..."

Born blind but still surfs.There is also a video of him at Pipe.

Adrien Toyon de passage a la Réunion.

Last month’s fatal shark attack has reignited a long-standing feud between South African surfers, cage-diving operators and local authorities. Central to the issue is the controversial method of chumming, used to coax White sharks closer to shore.

"Baiting sharks is the dumbest thing I can think of. Train sharks to associate people/boat ..."

John Florence is cursed. Cursed by all the terrible possibilities that face a prodigy of his mould. Possibilities like world domination. His style is totally raw and uncoached! Can you believe it?