In 1997, rookie Los Angeles County Lifeguard Kyle Daniels won the Catalina Classic Paddleboard race stock division by narrowly beating out his lifeguard mentor Mike Inscore. Following the race, Inscore extracted a promise from Daniels. “You have to race my [...]
The lure of the water was too much for Rochelle “Rockie” Curdes to ignore. A recent graduate from Mira Costa, Curdes played ice hockey, softball and basketball during high school but admits she was captivated by what she calls a [...]
South Bay surfing and skating buddies Matt Grote and Dane Zaun have teamed up to produce a film for the Innersection.tv video competion. The two attended Mira Costa High together. Grote is now attending Brooks Institute of Film in Ventura. To view the film, and show them your support by voting for the video visit http://innersection.tv/video/138
Easy Reader’s Surfing Santa
Photos by Dave Gregerson After a 15-hour day in Hawaii shooting the Pipeline Masters for the Associated Press, a few years back, Dave Gregerson found his gas tank had been siphoned. It had already been a challenging day. Just getting [...]
by Chris Brown
A crew of South Bay surfers weigh the prospects of barreling waves versus gun barrels in Baja, and are glad they did.
When a race director says of his own race, “The first mile and the last seven miles were good. The rest were horrible,” it normally doesn’t reflect well on the course or the director.
Redondo resident Danny Ching paddled his way into the record books recently, winning the Steinlager
Kaiwi Channel Solo OC1 World Championship. Ching became the first non-Hawaiian paddler to win the 32-mile race from Molokai to Oahu, completing the course in 3 hours, 38 minutes, 51 seconds, the second-fastest time in the 18-year history of the race and just 48 seconds off the course record.