Surfboard Shapes Surfboard lines are beautiful and complex all at the same time. Master surfboard shapers take years to hone their craft and their surfboard designs, but you don’t have that kind of time to pick out your next board. Different board shapes are better for different skill levels and different surf conditions. Whether you…
Best Wetsuits for Surfing As surfers, we believe that wetsuits are the greatest invention of all time and we have divers to thank for that. Three men lay claim to inventing the wetsuit to this day! In the early 1950s a physicist at Cal Berkley, Hugh Bradner, started using neoprene to trap water close to the skin so it would…
Surfing Booties Guide We all dream of a gorgeous, sun dappled sandy beach with warm water and endless perfectly formed waves. Warm water and only a few of our best friends to share the waves round out the surfer’s perfect setting. Continue Reading
Surfer Sunscreen Guide The Sun is pretty amazing. Every hour, the sun strikes the earth with more power than the entire world consumes in a year. That power gives life when it hits plants to help them grow and produce oxygen and when it hits water that evaporates into rain. It is, however, much less amazing…
Let’s be honest, no one likes sitting on the ground. Sand or dirt get everywhere, and there isn’t a backrest in sight. Mankind invented chairs for just this problem, and chairs have evolved to meet the specific need of supporting your backside in various terrain, like at the beach. Continue Reading
The best of the beach and the worst of the beach may both come down to one thing; sand. The beauty and relaxation of having your feet in the sand can’t be beat. Disgorging it from various areas on your body that you can’t usually see and cleaning it out of your wetsuit is easily the…
We love going to the beach! But we hate getting sunburned, wind chapped, and having sand in every crevice of our athletic bodies (okay, slightly overweight athletic bodies). So, what do we do to help keep these temples comfortable at the beach? We take a Costco beach tent to help beat back the elements while enjoying…
Most people take their eyesight for granted. In surfing, it is used for so much, from seeing a set come in to seeing the perfect line down the face of a killer wave. A lot of what we feel in our surfing bones starts with what we see through our eyes. Continue Reading
Having a place for all your stuff both on and off the waves makes surfing so much easier, but which backpack should you choose? There are so many options, and long gone are the days of the $15 Kmart blue light special backpack with three colors and a leather bottom. With easily at least a hundred bucks…
We’ve all done it, walked into Costco and seen the enormous floating island hanging from the ceiling and thought “I don’t care if it’s February, I need one of those bad boys for some summer fun!” Whether you are spending time at the lake or just want to fill the community pool with something fun, a…