Recent Rants

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If there's such a thing as too much beauty in a film, the surfing documentary "Highwater" is guilty of it. Director-writer-narrator Dana Brown ("Step Into Liquid"), working with cinematographer Steve Matzinger, has crafted a compelling, thoroughly gorgeous look at late 2005's Triple Crown of Surfing, the granddaddy of big wave championships, which is held yearly on Oahu's famed North Shore.

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Rant - Earl

At Montauk, on Long Island's far eastern tip, nearly 100 surfers braved the waves and were excited by what was to come. "It's going to be 22-foot," said Bard Cebula, 21, of Short Hill, N.J. "Surfing that kind of wave, you either know what you're doing or you're going to drown."

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Need to get a new 4/3 sometime soon. Thinking of trying to hit some labor day sales in SC. Anyone have any experience with the 4.5/3.5 Psychofreak? I have heard its really warm... but I'm concerned about durability. How does it compare to a Psycho 2 (my past/current suit)?

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The botanical society in this beachfront town thought it was honoring surfers when it spent $120,000 to erect a 16-foot tall statue of one riding a wave. Instead, it inspired a wave of humiliation for the hapless bronze dude.

Locals nicknamed it the "Cardiff Kook," derisive surfer slang for a wannabe surfer.

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"The waves were coming in perfectly, it was an amazing and magical morning!" remembers Paul Fisher, winner of July's Surfline Photo Challenge for his glassy water shot. "I remember just bodysurfing a bunch of waves and shooting as they closed out around me and this was one of them."

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This week, we lost a great friend.

Barney, the sea lion, was doing what he loved most when fate intervened - surfing and eating just outside the breakers at Linda Mar.

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Rant - Tonight's Set

From the cam...

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today at 12:05 PM at LM myself and about 40-50 other people witnessed a shark attack. It happened about 150 yards beyond the lineup midway between the bathhouse and ######. All I saw was bright red blood shooting into the air and much turbulance and swirling in the water. A 20-30 ft diameter pool of red was all that remained after the attack.

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You think about surfing when there's no surf. But what else do you do? Ever thought of tasing yourself, bro? Here's a hilarious entry by a Kiwi surfer about doing just that. To think I'll be committing 8 months to living there next year. Hmm....

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The lesson begins on the beach with a youngster lying on a surfboard more than twice her size. After some brief orientation, the child, joined by a world-class surfing coach, is soon paddling about 30 yards into the ocean.

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Free food, surf flicks, cheap beer, and it's for a good cause... you simply can not go wrong. Stop by!

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Pushing under waves is a great way to streamline your paddle out to backline. When done properly, it can look like the most graceful and effortless act in the whole world.

When not done properly, however, pushing under could look something like my first attempt at getting it right as a kid.

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