3-31-03
 

Fragments : Home, Fiji, Costa Rica {read}

     
 
         
 
4-7-03
  The Fincident {read}      
 
         
 
4-14-03
  People : Surf Bar Stories {read}      
 
         
 
4-21-03
  Geezer Surfing : The New Frontier {read}      
 
         
 
5-3-03
  Joe Local {read}      
 
         
  5-10-03   Too Deep : A Couple of Warnings {read}      
             
  5-24-03   Who Owns What? : A boatman at a surf camp in Fiji makes 40 Fijian dollars a week. That's 20 US. To earn that, he gets up at 5am... {read}      
             
  6-9-03   Heros {read}      
             
  6-30-03   Island Reverie : I wake up at 5.30 - it's dark and very warm and humid. Push aside the mosquito net and pull on some shorts. The room has a little table in it with a coffee machine. I set it up last night... {read}      
             
  7-7-03   Two Sessions : Tuesday, at a beach break somewhere in California. The bouy readings are small, the surf sites are predicting flatness... {read}      
             
  7-14-03   Random Stoke Thoughts : Well, let's start with an email posted on a website... {read}      
             
  8-4-03  

The Search - Real Life Version : Accounts of searching for surf in the magazines usually leave out the actual search part...{read}

     
             
  8-11-03   Da Bolt : The 70's : So I have this board - a 70's Gerry Lopez Lightening Bolt - 7'6", single-fin, yellow/orange deck... {read}      
             
  8-18-03   Surf Style: Surf Pics : I finally dropped by the Surf Style exhibition in San Francisco this week... {read}      
             
  9-7-03   San Franpsycho : Step Into Liquid : Surf movies this week, and if you're a San Francisco surfer, it's worth getting hold of a copy of the "San Franpsycho" DVD... {read}      
             
  9-15-03   Baja : Doesn't matter if you just head to Cabo, Baja is still Baja.. {read}      
             
  9-29-03   End of a Road : Sometimes we drift into moments of grace when everything feels still, beautifully paused, temporarily at rest... {read}      
             
  10-5-03   Somewhere in South America... {read}      
             
  10-27-03   Almost Killed By Kiwi Enthusiasm : It's been a long day surfing, and we've been waiting for "KDog" to get his last wave for twenty minutes. It's late, and there's some grey on the horizon... {read}      
             
  11-4-03   A Fork in the Road : There is a fork in the road - well there are many, of course - but this is a particular one. If you stay on the highway, 280, six lanes... {read}      
             
  11-17-03   Encyclopedia : A brief colum this week, mostly to celebrate Matt Warshaw's Encyclopedia of Surfing... {read}      
             
  11-30-03   Thanksgiving : Once again, a Thanksgiving swell - smooth, offshore, well over head high in parts of the beach... {read}      
             
  12-28-03   A Random List from 2003

:: Biggest stoke - watching Brian take the biggest drop of his life {read}
     
             
 
Under Construction
     
             
      Looking for the Barrel : So I went to the South Pacific with the vague idea of getting barrelled. I hadn't been barrelled yet in six years of surfing, and wanted it pretty badly... {read}      
             
      Surfing Alone : Some days the surface of the sea will be smooth, like glass. Surfers, in one of their less creative terms, call this "glassy"... {read}