“Skateboarding doesn’t make you a skateboarder. Not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.” – Lance Mountain, Bones Brigade Makita Duggan had been having seizures all day. Bedridden for months since being diagnosed with Lyme disease, she was incapable of venturing out into the California sun. A prisoner in her Oceanside home. She wanted […]
The Oceanriders Podcast | Imi Barneaud
Imogen Barneaud always dreamed of living like a hippie. As a child in the seventies, Imi’s parents introduced her to a nomadic lifestyle. By the age of 11, she had already moved back and forth from the UK to France—twice. At 17, the movie, “Point Break” flooded Imi’s brain with visions of waves. She went surfing […]
Rain Drops | Runoff | Surfing On Sewage In The Drop Spot
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 […]
Reform Life | Ryan Minarik
“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 […]
Don’t Be A Kook Who’s Gone Coastal While Surfing Your Board In Da’ Hood
Summertime. 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 annihalates waves on the […]
Full-Circle Eco-Friendly Surfboard | Eddy Garcia
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. […]