Irondequoit, N.Y. — Scott Johns was born in Hawaii and grew up in Florida. He started learning to surf at the age of 4. Then life brought him to Rochester several years ago.
“It really killed me, being away from the ocean,” Johns recalled.
San Mateo County authorities on Wednesday seized more than 1,500 marijuana plants, approximately 19 pounds of processed marijuana and several guns from a Half Moon Bay warehouse complex that was being used to conceal an illegal indoor marijuana grow operation and a residence connected to the operation.
The waves looked rad, the sun was shining, but when you've got a friend in town from another country, ditching them for a few hours to go get wet just doesn't seem so kind. Luckily there are always hikes along the coast. Here's a shot from today, figured you all might dig it.
There have been movies about third-world athletes advancing to prosperity through sports (Disney’s dramedy “Cool Runnings,” about the first Jamaican Olympic bobsled team; Anne Buford’s recent documentary, “Elevate,” about Senegalese basketball players shooting for the N.B.A.).
Balancing school, graduation, family, friends, and having a boyfriend can be tough for most teenagers. The thing is, most teenagers are not also professional surfers. Watch as pro female surfer Carissa Moore lives out her life and figures out how to balance being a pro surfer and a teenager at the same time.
Hello SF surfers. My name is Steve and I am raising money for SurfAid International, an organization that helps the islanders of the Nias and Mentawai islands, off the coast of western Indonesia.
I have supported SurfAid even before the 2004 earthquake and Tsunami devastated those islands, but this is the first time I have tried to raise funds from others.
19-year-old Australian surfer Laurie Towner (Angourie, NSW) - For Towner, surfing alongside childhood heroes Irons and Parkinson and being pushed by the ever charging Longbottom was a defining moment in his young surfing career.
NOAA Officials attempt to "educate" big wave surfers on the ban against the life saving vehicles that assist the surfers. The vehicles are supposed to represent a "threat to wildlife", even though other craft with the same engines are not banned.
Marvin writes: A college degree was supposed to be my golden ticket. Instead, all it has gotten me is several years of debt, and a sense of depression over having wasted the same amount of time in a school where I have no business being.
