Board games: Hermosa surf shops prepare for Huntington challenger
This weekend, Spyder Surf will host a reopening party for its newly remodeled, 27-year-old, Hermosa Beach shop on Pacific Coast Highway. The party will feature free hats, hotdogs and hamburgers, live music and celebrity surfers signing autographs, including pro surfer and Surfrider Foundation spokesperson More
Finding bliss in South Bay summer surf
by Da’ Edfactor
Summertime in the South Bay offers dismal surf. With the natural breakwalls of Palos Verdes and Catalina shading our southern-most corner pocket, south swells on the right angle tease and might just flirt with Manhattan. Waves are generated by local wind More
Pipeline: Silva scores Trifecta in Surf League Finals
by Mike Purpus
If Dayton Silva is ever given a plaque on the Hermosa Beach Surfer’s Walk of Fame, the first line will almost certainly read, “Only surfer ever to win the short board, long board and body board divisions in one South Bay More
Tiger Makin: Surf Walk of Fame inductee
by Mike Purpus, Photos by Steve Wilkins
James “Tiger” Makin seemed a little shy out of the water. But in the water he was always pushing the envelope. The bigger it got the more Tiger liked it. He’d take off deeper than anyone More
Pipeline: Surf bros Beatty and Hall
by Mike Purpus
Surfing may be an individual sport, but every surfer has a buddy out there with him in case you get hurt and, more importantly, to see your best rides. Conor Beatty and Austin Hall push each other to new limits on More