surfing I love talking about surfing and um this concept of giving something
Because surfing is not a cure for chronic autoimmune conditions, first of all.
competitive surfing , they became best friends. And they took up tow surfing .
in surfing and it's almost a regressive revolution in surfing , if you will, because what it's taught the guys is, they can survive beat downs harder than they ever could with the
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professional surfing it uh was a winter uh we call it a winter because uh it is
dangerous surfing over a very shallow coral reef um these waves come up out of the deep pacific these swells at are
The biggest surfing competition in the history of surfing .
know couch surfing -
But couch surfing has been an amazing resource.
to be a paddle surfing mission.
is tow toe surfing board.
But the notion of surfing , the notion of search, the notion of this liquid float, I think that's
-- started shooting surfing because of this book.
is what surfing has uh has has turned into at some breaks it's just
this connectedness of Surfing and that we are all um joined by one
I spent a lot of time surfing , finding new music, downloading someone's playlist that they've put on, not listening to it, going on for a bit more to download
And I love the sport of surfing and I love the ocean.
But it might be great for surfing , so anyway.
And I'm wondering how the surfing is there.
And then I also started shooting surfing , actually, just a few years ago.
I'd been in the surfing industry for many years so I thought you know maybe I can ph up quick silver I had a company
Yet this is exactly what's been happening in surfing , skiing, snowboarding, rock climbing, mountain biking, et cetera, all the action and adventure sports.
And rock climbing's one of those sports like surfing or mountain biking.
And so they asked me to go shoot surfing and mounting biking with their point-and-shoots.
So I went to California and started shooting surfing , and then a fellow photographer friend of mine, Andrew Eccles, who's a very famous portrait photographer from New York,
And he's kind of been my entree into the surfing world.
So yeah I'm a huge proponent of couch surfing .
And we've been out kind of body surfing and we came back in.
as Flame who was the photo editor of Surfing Magazine.
I basically had a tutorial from one of the best surfing photographers in the world and that was -- he's a really good friend now.
impact that it's had on on on Modern um surfing culture and the modern surfing industry back then there was no such
three boards down there as representative of the U of of Surfing culture and surfing is a wonderful It's a Wonderful Endeavor It's a Wonderful
foundation for you guys that don't know is the biggest surfing Environmental Group in the world it has about 60,000
still today it's considered the Mount Everest of Surfing for paddin surfing in
And she's like, this is like a surfing treatise, because any surfer worth their weight knows how to go into the ocean.
Now, that's kind of like surfing , isn't it?
And I try to couch surf , couch surfing is more for like when I'm in a pause somewhere in a big city for a week or so.
sort of fixated along with two other guys that he worked with at Surfing Magazine.
was turbocharged we entered when I saw Mark ride this board for the first time surfing had entered the age of
know uh Marjorie Schwarz grew up on the beach here playing volleyball and body surfing and she that's she knows that world she was the obvious Beach person
We wanted to include a broad variety of sports, and surfing is obviously one of the big adventure sports out there.
But as to turned out, they had the biggest big wave surfing contest that's ever been held.
I mean, this is the who's who of surfing .
wonderful experience even before you have a wave it is really um an amazing experience and surfing definitely brings you back closer to I think what's
that I really believe in and the guy that founded at Glen hanning was um was having a little surfing competition down at ringcon 5 years ago
Haw May Bay which is at back then was the largest wave in the world that was like the Mount Everest of Surfing and
They make a case for your camera, mostly for surfers, waves, surfing , body boarding, that kind of thing.
I mean, these days, this interconnected world, with couch surfing , with social networking, lots of meet up groups everywhere-- like, anything you want to do,
And the last time I had surfed , I had nearly drowned in a big way of accident in Indonesia and wanted nothing to do with surfing .