I’ve been testing out GoPro’s Digital Hero 3 and I gotta say…it takes a little getting used to to get great shots, but after that learning period, damn it’s awesome. The camera is itty bitty, about the size of half a Clif bar mushed into a square. (sorry for that analogy, I just couldn’t think [...]
Before Wend, our Ed and Chief, Ian, had a job in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua. It was what most surfers would consider a dream job. He ran a surf guide business, taking clients to various breaks along Nicaragua’s coast. Basically, Ian was paid to surf. I had a chance to [...]
Apparently in an effort to boost tourism, Capitola in Santa Cruz County wants to reintroduce the legendary Capitola Classic, an annual downhill skateboard race. While, nearby cities are making efforts to build skateparks, Capitola wants to re-visit the now fringe discipline of downhill. If they pull it off, it will be one of [...]
Eddyflower.com, a paddling website, is hosting a new competition to benefit First Descents, an organization for young kayakers with cancer. It’s pretty cool—in a 30 day period, you and your teammates (5 max) paddle as many rivers as you can and log your vertical feet. Then they add it all up and the team with [...]
Recently Wend featured an article telling the story of a band of surfers and photogs searching for a perfect, endless wave on Africa’s Zambezi river. Naturally, we were intrigued by a story over at Gadling about an increasingly popular tidal bore wave on the Amazon river.
The pororoca is a Brazilian tidal bore boasting waves [...]
Filmed by Bike in Portland has made the final selections for this year’s festival. 19 films and they are giving away an Electra Amsterdam. If you are in P-town, go see it, otherwise get the DVD.
Wend’s home, Oregon, is on the cusp of building a large scale offshore wave energy farm, the first of its kind in the world. I’ve been doing a significant amount of research into this on behalf of Surfrider Oregon, in an attempt to figure out what the implications might be for surfers along our coastline. [...]
By now, you have probably made up your mind whether you love or hate the “Fixed gear” trend. Hipster posturing or cutting edge urban pursuit? Either way riding fixed-gear track bikes in an urban setting has been responsible for getting more and more people into bicycle culture over the last few years.
So get ready for [...]
Lately I’ve been bombarded with a slew of awesome kayaking videos. The latest I’ve heard about, Light and Liquid, is being put out by New Beligium Brewery (Fat Tire beer, mmmm, yummy). Or their super cool marketing guy. Or both. It’s somewhat unclear. Anyway, he describes it as a kayak collage of movement and sound [...]
In issue #2 Wend ran a story about green surfboards. We featured two shapers making wooden boards, Grain on the east coast and Hess on the west. Check out Hess’s blog and see his latest gun.
