It can’t be easy to be a Gulf Coast Surfer right now. The spill is terrible and getting worse, jobs are scarce and now they cannot even pray for waves. Normally, they must watch the charts, and when tropical depressions like the one in the news begin to form they start waxing boards, changing fins [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Praying for Flat Spells
Posted: July 22, 2010 in Environmental Concerns, Lifestyle, surfingTags: Beach, Channel Island, Community, Destruction, Environment, exercise, Happiness, health, Jersey Shore, Long Boards, music, New Jersey, ocean, oil, Sam Hammer, Surf Gear, Surf School, Surf Tunes, Surfer, The Drums, waves
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You Don’t Know How Hot Til You Try
Posted: July 20, 2010 in Big Red, Lifestyle, Surf Gear, wavesTags: Beach, Community, Cypress Hill, Environment, Essence Surf, exercise, Gene Wahl, Happiness, health, Jay Alders, Jersey Shore, music, nature, New Jersey, ocean, passion, Slightly Stoopid, Surf Board, Surf Gear, surfing, waves
The first word that comes to my mind so far this summer is hot. The thermometer has soared every day, the lawns are brown and the crickets are too tired to chirp. One of the saving graces is that the Mid-Atlantic Corridor has been pleasantly active and waves, while not nearing the epic range, have [...]
The Troops Storm the Beach
Posted: July 18, 2010 in beach, Events, Surf CheckTags: Army, Beach, Belmar, Catholics, Commitment, Community, Environment, exercise, Jersey Shore, Lessons, Life, love, New Jersey, ocean, passion, Surfer, surfing, Surprise, Todd Stewart, Troops, Walter Reed, Warriors, waves
I know I have blogged about this before, but often times surfing is about learning lessons in the water that apply to my life outside of the waves. For instance there is patience, and a willingness to wait for a wave and be at peace in the process. This mindset works wonders in a [...]
