I decided to write a list of the best surf photography books because all the other ones I saw drove me insane (à la this cartoon, which belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Internet Culture.) Of course, it’s all subjective. In reality, though? Those other lists are wrong. Any list of the best…
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Lately I have been thinking a lot about what I call “micro moments in surf history.” Last week it was Skip Frye, Mike Hynson and Ron Stoner’s trip to the Ranch, and today it’s Tom Curren riding a 5’10” Skip Frye fish (AKA the Litmus board) at South Africa’s Jeffreys Bay in 1993….
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It has been a month exactly since I last posted here on the blog. I’m sorry to those who check the blog regularly. I’ve been doing far more writing over at the weekly newsletter I’ve been sending out every month. If you’re not already subscribed, please do. Pictured above is a 70s Dick…
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I haven’t been surfing for three weeks, and I’m on the verge of losing my sanity. And if you’ve been checking the blog regularly, my apologies, as I clearly haven’t been using the time to write here, either. Nonetheless, here at Shred Sledz there’s always time for quality surf advertising, and I absolutely…
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In an age where clickbait runs rampant, shout out to Tosh Tudor for not beating around the bush. Tosh’s new full-length feature, “Tube Therapy”, delivers exactly what its title suggests. In this case variety means frontside and backside barrels, and I think there’s fewer than ten top turns in the entire forty some-odd…
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It’s been a while since I did one of these, so here are some highlights from Instagram over the past month plus. I’ve been writing less on the blog here, and focusing more on a weekly newsletter, which you can sign up for here if you’re interested. One of the coolest bits of…
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Just last week I wrote “everyone at Thomas Surfboards seems to be having a blast, and it really comes across in all their edits.” In case you needed more evidence, here’s “Kang’s Retreat”, a full length offering by Harrison Roach, Hunter Vercoe and Husni Ridhwan. You can view the site on the excellent…
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The Spring 2024 California Gold Surf Auction ended a little less than a week ago. It’s always worth browsing through the selections and seeing where everything landed. In the preview post I wrote before the lots went live, I singled out four boards: a balsa Diffenderfer single fin (my personal favorite); an 80s…
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Mikey February is a must watch. There are a ton of surfers whose clips I’ll watch, and it kind of ends there. Whether it’s the impeccable music selection in his edits, modeling for Loro Piana, or his Juju Surf Club non-profit, February exhibits a level of taste that goes well beyond the average…
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“You know why I was the best competitor ever? Because my heart was stone, and nothing was going to pierce it.” Kelly Slater, 2024 Kelly Slater has surfed his last heat as a full time member of the World Surf League’s Championship Tour, closing the book on the greatest competitive career the sport…
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