Dazzling Blue #73: Celebrating Black Surfers
It’s Black History Month, and while it would be wonderful to remember all the great black surfers throughout history, and to celebrate all the black surfers on the world tour...
It’s Black History Month, and while it would be wonderful to remember all the great black surfers throughout history, and to celebrate all the black surfers on the world tour...
Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. This time we’re connecting...
I had a hard time interviewing Solo Scott for this piece, not because there was a lack of things to talk about, but because there was way too much— we...
Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. In this edition, we...
Last Dazzling Blue we heard from the good Dr. Tim Brown about Alignment. This Dazzling Blue he edifies us about Breath, or more specifically, why it is good to breathe...
Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. If you’ve been...
“Alignment is about body posture and breath,” says Dr. Tim Brown, “And good alignment is created when your muscles and fascia are balanced, when the front to back and inside...
Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. This time around we...
It’s hard to overstate Bruce Brown’s influence on the surf universe. The Endless Summer is one of the most successful documentaries of all time. It turned the non-surfing masses onto...
“The Bonzer is without doubt surfing’s greatest example of a surfboard design slipping through the cracks,” said longtime surf scribe Nick Carroll. “It was a decade or two ahead of...
Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. This time we’re traveling to...
86-year-old Walter Hoffman’s eyes gleam with stoke and levity—he’s been surfing since 1945. A big wave pioneer, a beachwear industrialist, the president of Hoffman California Fabrics, I met with him...
Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. In this edition, we’re...
“There are so many components to surfing—there’s the boards, the music, the art, the fashion, the photography, the film, the lifestyle. People say soccer’s bigger than surfing and I say,...
Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. In this edition we’re...