When you’re a grom you have all summer to surf and the afternoon when you get off of school. Shit in California the kids get to surf during school… When you get older and need to make money working it gets hard to work surfing into your daily schedule. A lot of guys are forced into becoming weekend warriors and eventually a lot of them just end up staying home to watch football and drink beer. A lot of the best guys in the water are the poorest, the ones who can’t hold a job or stay in a relationship for longer than a few months. Girls really get in the way of surfing but that’s another topic I will get into later. One thing I find real important when looking for a job is one that will either A. allow me to surf in the mornings or B. allow me to surfing in the afternoons. I really like surfing in the mornings, I have had some of my best sessions during lunchtime even so I like working late. Restaurants for example are good places to work because they want you to work later and a lot of them want ...

It’s that time of year again time to get a new wetsuit for Fall and Winter… Unless you invested in a real expensive suit last year, chances are your thinking about getting a new wetsuit. The latest edition of Surfing Magazine has a nice wetsuit breakdown you should check it out if you haven’t. I honestly think the best way to choose a wetsuit is to try a couple you’re interested on and move around a bit in the dressing room. You want one that fits you snug but not restrictively tight, I really hate wearing a loose wetsuit. I am stoked to be buying a new wetsuit this year, it seems like wetsuits have really gotten nice over the last couple years. I think Patagonia really shook things up when they started making their wetsuit, if I was rich I would buy one… speaking of money, you should give the ad on the top a click or two, I have only made three bucks from them so far. Ok back to wetsuits… This year I found two really nice suits for under $200 that I am going to try on and hopefully buy. The Billabong Revolution Hybrid Zip 3/2 ...

The guys at ShoreScrew seem to hang around a lot of fun looking girls. The beach babes pictured below are a good example of some pretty Hot Southern California beach girls. In the summer you cant go to the beach without seeing hot chicks like these. Surf All Beaches is your source for beach babes.

Here is some funny video footage from the Transworld Surf Mag Cali Rally - basically The Amazing Race meets Jackass meets Fear Factor meets American Gladiator but starring a bunch of Pro Surfers or almost Pro Surfers. THE NAKED AND SPEEDO SHIT WAS WHAT TWSURF MADE THEM DO IN THE CONTEST. CHRIS AND JUSTIN COTE SECRETLY SEEKING SEPPO SPEEDO SIGHTINGS. The competitors from ...Lost or as we like to be called "The ...Lost Shredder Posse Surf Club Crew Network Against Establishment" consisted of James "Hard As" Wood, Robert "Crusti" Curtis, Ash "Hole" King, Chase "Screaming Willy" Wilson, Ryan "Why don't we make size 35?" Simmons and Rob Machado. Team Billabong won the challenge - we got second or maybe third - but at least we didn't cry when we ...lost. Check out the clips in the video below. Edit By Noah Alani.

Ross Clarke Jones surfs Shipsterns in really heavy conditions and has a nasty wipeout. Shipsterns is such a heavy wave and it looks pretty stormy in the pictures. I think its safe to say RCJ is just a little crazy. The action started last Wednesday. Having spent a couple of months shooting the "Storm Surfers" documentary for Discovery Channel, Ross Clarke-Jones was taking a breather in Germany when Swellnet forecaster Ben Matson sent an advisory email concerning a large Tasmanian swell expected in seven days time. The swell was given the green light the following Friday, flights were scrambled and jet skis freighted. Wednesday morning dawned frigid in Hobart with snow reported down to sea level, several highways were closed and the wind chill clocked in at around minus ten. A vigorous cold front was tracking towards the coast, but the Storm Surfers team were already launching dock-side before dawn, preparing to race the storm at Shipsterns. Strong winds created mutant lumps across huge lines of raw Southern Ocean energy, but the winds occasionally veered cross-offshore at times, creating a menacing bowl that claimed Ross on his second wave - resulting in a dash back to hospital. The spectacular vision was ...

Brazil looks like a great place to live if you’re a surfer or just a dude that likes thick girls. Brazilian beaches are packed with babes. Check out the video above of some Brazilian beach girls in thongs at the beach. I wouldn’t mind sharing waves with any of these girls, their pretty hot.

Pro Surfer Surfer Grant Twiggy Baker surfed a huge 65 foot+ wave, one of the biggest waves I have seen a picture of being surfed. I will post the video of Twiggy surfing this crazy big wave soon. Zigzag photographer Alan van Gysen tells the story... Obviously everyone around the world was amping and frothing when this swell appeared on their computer screens last weekend. All the big wave surfers currently in South Africa after the Red Bull Big Wave Africa prepared themselves to do battle with 8 meters at 15 secs. I even had magazines from Costa Rica frothing and setting aside 16 pages of editorial for the 'African swell of the year'. It produced some amazing results in the end, but it definitely didn't arrive and show itself in the perfection that was expected. Rather, it arrived slowly during Saturday 9 August with all the anger and turmoil of a tornado, proving once again that the coastline around Dungeons is one wild, unpredictable beast.

Both Todd Proctor of Proctor Surfboards and Matt Biolos of Mayhem and ...LOST Surfboards are savvy internet users. I think Proctor Surfboards was one of the first surfboard companies to take the internet seriously. Todd has had his web page up for what feels like forever and is good at using Email. I actually used to order boards from him in Santa Barbra, California when I lived on the Outer Banks, North Carolina and we would talk about board design regularly using Email. When I saw the videos Proctor put together with team rider Jay Phillips it really didn’t surprise me but it did impress me. …LOST surfboards who was a little bit late getting themselves on the Internet have made up for it with their site that’s got everything you could ask for including free footage from …LOST surfing videos. Another cool thing is that Matt Biolos posts on the surfermag message boards and has even given me advice on surfboard dimensions and talked surfboard design. I think it’s really cool seeing surfboard shapers using the internet. Here are a couple videos of Matt Biolos and Todd Proctor shaping surfboards, very SICK... ...LOST Whiplash Surfboard shaping video and ...

Jamie O'Brien knows how to deal with a crowd as you can see in this photo and in the surf video to the right under "Featured Surf Videos". Rusty team rider Jamie O is a snake and has no problem burning guys surfing in G-land. You can see here in this surfermag forum thread people are saying JOB will beat your ass if you engage him. A guy calming to know Jamie says the truth to this video is "one guy beat Jamie at Ping Pong real bad so Jamie "snuffed" him. The other guy was not gonna make it due to a paddler and lack of nads." That makes sense to me... the guy goes on to say that "if you are a donkey, and have blown some good waves, he will burn you. Especially when the camera is rolling, which is always. Cause the guy is da Freak." and that again makes sense to me. Jamie O'Brien is an incredible surfer, you can check the Jamie O snake video and more surf videos in the Top Right Corner under "Featured Surf Videos" on www.surfallbeaches.com. [singlepic=126,320,240,,]

If you like punting airs check out Fifty Fifty Waveskates by Ben Wei who recently got close to landing a surfboard kickfilp on video. I think if anyone he has a good chance of winning the Volcom kickflip contest. Check out the footage of Ben Wei surfing below and getting pretty close to landing a kickflip on video. I owned a Waveskate a few Summers ago and the board was a lot of fun, especially on those small days when you want to ride a fish or small wave board. I think these boards work really well for surfers who can also skate and like hitting airs. The only thing I didn't like about the Waveskate I owned was it would slide out on me a lot but I never got around to replacing the fins so I am ready to give another one a go and see how it works with better fins. I think this time I might go with a pointy nose model also... Made right in Oceanside California, you can reach Fifty Fifty via Email at waveskates@hotmail.com [gallery=6]