Search Results: Adam Davenport
All photos by Mark Kawakami When purchasing a fix-me-up classic car, the buyer must know it’s a very big commitment. It’s a lot of maintenance, upkeep, elbow grease, money, and time. Adam Davenport of Davenport Surfboards recently added a 1964 Ford Country Sedan to his family. Oh yeah, he also got married a few weeks…
Read MoreThruster/quad-riding foam-jockeys are the surfing equivalent of pop punk/white boy reggae, the popular,SouthBay background elevator music that seems to be spewing from every speaker in town. Shaper Adam Davenport, 28, bucks this trend and instead, follows the legacy that goes straight back to Dale Velzy. Davenport’s operation is roots rock and roll with a heavy…
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by E. Solt Fresh off the jett, Kai Sallas, a Hawaiian professional longboarder, and four time World Surf League Championship runner-up, looked to get his reps out in the playful left of Playa La Saladita, Mexico, in preparation for the 2023 MexiLog fest. In comes South Bay upstart, 14-year-old, Cormac O’Brien, an 8th grader at…
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Jacobs shaped boards, surfers Dudley “Hap” Jacobs is acknowledged, along with fellow Hermosa Beach surfboard shapers Greg Noll, Dewey Weber, and Bing Copeland, as among the greatest shapers from surfing’s Golden Era, in the late ’50s and early ’60s. But Jacobs’ most important contribution to surfing wasn’t shaping surfboards boards, former Jacobs team rider Henry…
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Photos by Mike Balzer Photos by Brent Broza (BrozaPhoto.com) Photos by Wright Adaza Photos by Kevin Cody/Easy Reader Dudley “Hap” Jacobs is acknowledged, along with fellow Hermosa Beach surfboard shapers Greg Noll, Dewey Weber, and Bing Copeland, as among the greatest shapers from surfing’s Golden Era, in the late ’50s and early ’60s. But Jacobs’…
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by Mike Purpus Last month, Cormac Cove O’Brien won the Open Men’s Longboard division at the South Bay Boardriders Surf contest at Torrance Beach. What made the win notable is that O’Brien is a 5-foot-2, 95 pound Parras Middle School seventh grader. Following his men’s longboard victory, he won the groms (12 and under) shortboard…
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by Eddie Solt Much like the diverse city Scott Anderson resided in, the surfboards he built encompassed an entire spectrum of shapes and designs. He made boards for everybody. The iconic, LA-born shaper, who opened shop in Hermosa Beach five years ago, died last month after an extended battle with cancer. He was 57. Revered…
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David Nuuhiwa and fellow Golden Era Hermosa Beach surf stars Mike Purpus and John Joseph were reunited at the Hermosa Beach pier for the Hermosa Beach Hotdogger Championships.
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The wind was offshore. The air and water were 70 degrees. And a south swell was delivering head high sets. But being Hermosa and being fall, the winter sandbars hadn’t formed and the waves were closing out close to shore for the Subaru Pacific Hotdoggers contest.
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by Ed Solt After a lackluster XXL swell-starved 2015 winter season, El Nino brought back The South Bay Big Wave Challenge in 2016. “Catching the biggest wave of the winter, it’s a punch chance — there’s so many great surfers in the South Bay, it depends on being at the right place at the right…
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By Mike Purpus In a style evoking 1960s surf star David Nuuhiwa, the cool hand of Palos Verdes High senior Luke Marshall stays bent casually high in the air as he arches on the tip while perched on his 10’ metallic blue tinted Davenport Surfboards “4065” model noserider. Besides sharing the same silky smooth noseriding…
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By Ed Solt Ten years ago, a humble everyday surfer, Barry Hatchett, set out to share the aloha spirit with fellow surfers of the same ilk through his Beach Shorts Film Fest. Each subsequent year, jeering and cheering surfers filled the Hermosa Beach Playhouse to view the only film fest featuring six to ten minute…
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by Ed Solt All photos by Rick Parker Donning white baseball pants and cleats, a traditional look for Little League coaches, which departs from the thankfully discontinued ultra-short, form-fitting, bike-brand era of “coaches shorts,” Shawn O’Brien brings an old school philosophy of working hard to achieve a goal. In his first year as coach for…
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In the ‘60s Hoppy Swartz with the help of Leroy Grannis and the Kerwin brothers put on The Hermosa Beach Surfing Championships for The United States Surfing Association as part of The International Surfing Festival. It was one of the biggest surfing contests of the year. Eddie Solt wanted to bring it all back and did just that last Saturday on the South side of the Hermosa Beach Pier.
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Barahona is very easy going and listens to the customer before opening his mouth. He’s been in the industry for over 30 years and can shape every type of board.
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The 8th Annual Beach Shorts Festival packed the Hermosa Beach Playhouse Saturday night for an event that allows amateur filmmakers to show six to eight minute “shorts” documenting nearly every aspect of the local surf scene
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