Tales of inspiring wave riders. Consciously aware of our world.
From the river’s edge, Janina Zeitler steps onto her surfboard. The standing wave of the Eisbach river rapidly carries her nearly fifty-feet to the other side of the canal. She glides to the top of the waist-high wave, lays her backhand into the flowing rapids, and rips a swooping front-side cutback—spraying an eager photographer, who […]
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Angie grew up with a passion for nature; caring for every little creature that walked across her path and spending as much time in the garden with her mother as possible. Tending to the environment in front of her has always been a way of life. “I really believe that by being in nature you […]
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Surf at your own peril. Heavy rain spatters against contaminated city streets, which are designed to avoid flooding by directing all stormwater toward the ocean. The filthy detritus carries with it a host of insidious bacteria, trash, petroleum pollutants, metals, toxins, and viruses as it flushes curbs, sidewalks, gutters, creeks, and rivers down through drainage […]
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“Stop making goals. Instead put your dreams on the horizon and chase them every day. You’ll find a new meaning of success.” Ryan Minarik used to have a corporate job full of meetings, schedules, and deadlines. As a sophomore at Arizona State University, he founded an audio brand called, BOOM by Polk. Being the lead […]
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Summertime. San Diego. They’re all around you… You paddle out into the lineup at your favorite local surf-break seeking to shred some waves. You give a head nod to a familiar face then throw a shaka to that one dude whose name you don’t know but you recognize because he’s always in the water—and he […]
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8 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean every year on top of the 150 million metric tons (1 metric ton = 2205 pounds) of plastics that currently circulate our sea. That’s equivalent to dumping one city garbage truck full of plastic in our ocean every minute of every day for an entire year. From […]
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Tides are the longest of all waves, with a wavelength that can equal half of the Earth’s circumference. As surfers, we wake up every morning thinking about the tides and how they may affect the quality of the overall surf. (Will the tide be drained, shallow, causing surfable waves at our reef or beach break […]
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