Rolling on wheels of future past
Olympic skateboarder Bryce Wettstein, 18, is the latest “Making Waves” inductee at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside....
Chris Ahrens
Surfing frozen water
We who live in Southern California are so blessed. We live in one of the few regions of the world where we can surf and...
Enjoy the ride
Grauer School's Surf PE instructor puts a high premium on the main reason any of us started surfing in the first place....
Stoked to work with young surfers again
Even if I can't teach anyone much about riding waves, maybe I can illustrate something about a timeless thing called stoke....
The Cadillac Kid
With his minimalist approach to the sport, Gregg Weaver is a great skater in the same way that Gerry Lopez is a great surfer....
A cherished addition to my quiver
Even now, nobody but Skip Frye himself has ever shaped a Skip Frye Surfboard. I doubt any other shaper can make that claim....
In praise of the great kelp forest
Thankfully, cutting the kelp, which is a communal resource, was outlawed in California in 1992....
Hunting joy
When I was a child, I was terrified of the ocean. That seemingly endless body of water was the domain of monsters I had seen...
The joy of running water
He’e nalu comes pretty close to nailing my feelings about the sport I’ve been hooked on for the past 60 years....
‘Big Wednesday,’ the wave that keeps breaking
“Big Wednesday” is forever fresh and sweet. And one reason is that Denny Aaberg is a triple threat as a storyteller, musician and surfer....
The low cost of a free ride
Litter is lazy, ignorant and rude. It is also an invasion of our common property and a type of theft in a way....
Murph the Surf’s enduring story
Jack Roland Murphy was a genius who, by his own admission, wasted much of his talent pursuing a life of crime....
That amazing Fletcher family
My first encounter with Herbie Fletcher was not through surfing but skateboarding at the Huntington Pier....
Finding a lonely beach in a jam-packed world
Now, I realize that everyone has the right to find their place in the sun, but North County beaches are taking on a Coney Island...
Surfer dudes unite
If all you ever knew of surfers came from the movies, you would think that we were all monosyllabic stoners....
