This surf book, and the words written within are unlike any stories you would find in the average surf magazine. Its nice to see an alternative for those who would rather read a great book and not a magazine full of ads.
The author uses a unique and descriptive style to take you into his adventures, […]

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In the town of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico the Army Corps decided to install a jetty to help the local fisherman with getting their skiffs, or yolas, through the shore-pound during the winter. What was supposed to be a small, still-water harbor behind the jetty, filled in with sand in no time, and to our delight […]

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Laird Hamilton under the fold and, as always, ahead of the game. In the waves of Teahupoo.
Photo: Tim Mckenna

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At a wave like Backdoor Pipe, the trick is to find a crease that gets you in. Once committed, just follow the curves until you see the light. Unknown tunnel rat, diggin’ it.
Photo: Nathan Smith

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The Ventures Christmas album was originally released in 1965. It features Christmas songs played in the group’s trademark instrumental style. Most of the songs start with the first few seconds of a familiar rock hit, before transforming into a Christmas song. Some examples: “Sleigh Ride” opens with “Walk, Don’t Run”. “Santa Claus is Coming To […]

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Quintessential warm-water point wave, almost too perfect to believe. “Some say it’s the best wave in the world at 4-6 feet,” says photographer Jason Childs. “The adrenalin becomes an obsession. The heat, the sweat, the tube can drive some crazy.” Indian Ocean pulses turning the corner.
Photo: Jason Childs

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If you are sick and tired of the age old Christmas classics, and you like that groovy guitar rock sound of the 50’s and 60’s you will find this Christmas alternative very refreshing.
This Wave Benders compilation includes 12 wave-pounding and rockin’ Christmas Classics performed with 50’s and 60’s vintage guitars and amps. You will also […]

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Local grommet Jake Perkins, using a very small board, negotiates one of the countless steps, bumps and creases that scar the face of most Western Australian “Desert Reef” tubes. So is it really worth the risk? Errr … whaddaya reckon, mate?
Photo: Russell Ord

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Bodysurfing is the art and sport of riding a wave without the assistance of any buoyant device such as a surfboard or bodyboard.
Belinda Baggs, born in Australia, started surfing at 14, and in 2000 won a national title as the 2000 Australian Professional Longboard Circuit Champion and the same year she placed third in […]

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Speeding is illegal, yet we sell racing motorcycles and cars which are so powerful and look so intimidating that a police man could write the owner a ticket even if it were parked. Take today’s crotch rocket, nearly all of these motorcycles can barely get out of second or third gear going sixty miles per hour. We complain when our teenagers drive these bikes like they are meant to be driven. Silly of us to think that anyone is going to drive these bikes and never speed?

Any one who has ever gotten on a race bike and felt the acceleration knows that such temptation is just to great. Once you give it some throttle you want to take it thru the gears. Yet, if you do choose to take it thru all the gears and redline the sixth or last gear you find yourself often over 135 miles per hour even on a 600 CC race bike. On the 750’s and 1000 plus CC race bikes you are well over 160 miles per hour at redline. Those of us who dare know that you must really pay attention when you are going at such speeds while sitting out in the open, namely you need to hang on.

Why do we sell these motorcycles to teenagers if we know that there is no possible way and no current teenager alive who owns one who has not sped on it? It is safe to say that such a statement is correct. Perhaps we ought to have speed limits within reason; for instance if you have taken a super bike class and have shown you can handle the raw power and speed; then you should be allowed to open it up all the way when no one else is around to get hurt. Montana use to have such a law on their roads, unlimited speed limit as long as you were not endangering others, this seems to be a good rule. Germany has the autobahn, yet we are denied the pursuit of happiness because some lawmaker who has no balls is afraid we might get hurt and it might go into the newspaper and make a few weak voters sob? No one has the right to deny those capable and willing to push the envelope a little our pursuit of happiness as such rules are in complete contrary to what it means to live in a free country.

Just because there are Jerry Springer guest stars out there still wearing their free T-shirts for being on the show and a few Jeff Foxworthy “here’s your sign” recipients is no reason to make laws to protect the weakest link of humanity from their destiny and happiness. The need for speed is an innate characteristic of mankind and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. For those who cannot perform, they can win the Darwin Award, but we should not make laws to protect the stupidest human and deny the cr