Extreme Sports

Stoked to Be Studying: New Surf Research Center at San Diego State University

​San Diego State University's Center for Surf Research may not be quite what you may think or hope it is. The curriculum will not include watching North Shore, analyzing the behavior of Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High or studying the hydrodynamics of a surfboard riding upon ... More >>

'Swell Guys': Clay Crandal Signs Sponsorship Deal With Local Brand, Lost Enterprises

Photo: Tom CozadClay Crandal: from cover boy to sponsored surfer.​Remember the guy on the yellowish-orange board who appeared to be dropping down the face of the Weekly's aquamarine cover a few weeks ago (see right)? That was Clay Crandal. He's just 18 and not much frightens him. While most of us ... More >>

Sion Milosky, a Hawaiian Big-Wave Charger, Drowns While Surfing Maverick's

theeddie.quiksilver.comSion Milosky was an "Eddie" alternate.​Tragedy struck once again at Maverick's--a challenging surf spot 25 miles south of San Francisco--yesterday, taking the life of Sion Milosky, one of Hawaii's up-and-coming big-wave chargers.Milosky, 35, had been surfing for several hour ... More >>

'Local Hero' Chuck Linnen Among Three to Be Inducted Into HB Surfers' Hall of Fame This Summer

​This summer, the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach will add to its ranks a big-wave surfing pioneer, an AAP World Tour veteran and one of HB's local legends. George Downing, Taylor Knox and Chuck Linnen will be enshrined on the sidewalk in front of Huntington Surf & Sport at a ce ... More >>

Downhill Skateboarders Facing Regulations and Limitations From Laguna Beach City Council

Laguna Beach: "Not on our streets, you won't!"​The rear bumpers and side panels of cars in Laguna Beach can thank the City Council for doing its part to ensure said car parts' future safety and well-being. On Tuesday evening, the council voted to create an ordinance that would prohibit the practic ... More >>

New Surf-Movie Trailer: Mikey DeTemple's Sight|Sound, Which Includes Some Local Talent

Chasen Marshall/OC WeeklyDirector DeTemple on set for Picaresque.​In July 2009, East Coast-based surfer and filmmaker Mikey DeTemple premiered his debut flick, Picaresque, to a packed house at the Hurley warehouse in Costa Mesa. It was an artistic representation of the sport he loved and the surfe ... More >>

Ryan Sheckler's Truck, an Alleged Teen Thief and a Deputy-Involved Shooting

​Pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler's white pickup was stolen some time Friday night and, after a short pursuit of the truck Saturday morning, an Orange County Sheriff's deputy fired at least two shots at a 17-year-old driving toward the deputy and his partner.Meanwhile, the Orange County Register is ... More >>

Laguna Beach Skateboard Ban Wipes Out

​The skateboarding ban being talked about in Laguna Beach appears to have done a face plant.The Laguna Beach Parking, Traffic and Circulation Committee unveiled a final version of a proposed ordinance Thursday night that was missing something huge that had been in previous drafts: a boarding probi ... More >>

7 Maloof Money Cup Misses

​Lost amid our blanket coverage of the U.S. Open of Surfing this past weekend were the results from another battle waged on boards.This one's strictly dry land, however.Skateboarder Chris Cole, who needed a score of 93 going into his final run Sunday, put up at 97 to win his third consecutive Malo ... More >>

Open Season

The U.S. Open of Surfing returns to local shores

Director's Own Words: Hunter Weeks of Ride the Divide

flickr user dzinerHunter Weeks takes a break from Ride the Divide to check his email.​"I was intrigued by the people who were doing this race. We had everything from a 'super vegan' who tried to make it only eating raw foods to a guy riding a fixed gear mountain bike and was on his third attempt t ... More >>

"BoardHeads" Meet Homeboys in HB

A homeboy shares the stoke in BoardHeads.​Homeboy Industries, whose mission is to take former gang members off the streets and show them there is more to life than gang-bangin', brought young men and women from Los Angeles to Huntington Beach last summer for surf lessons.

Wax On, Wax Off: Documentary on Early Newport Surf Scene

An anonymous reader was kind enough to send in this video about the early Newport Beach surf scene, circa 1950s and 60s. Apparently an early look at an enigmatic documentary project called Living it Forever  (coming in spring 2010) the clip includes conversations with a diverse selection of New ... More >>

Looking Back: 2009 Orange County Deaths

​Turn on the weepy, string ensemble music: It's time for us to look back on the year that (almost) was and remember some of the figures from Orange County who have left us. There was unexpected tragedy, there were some suspicious circumstances, there were rich legacies... there's even the possibil ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Surfing, Violence and You (Pt. 3) - Fight at Newport Point, Continued

Flickr user audio1bob(...continued from Wax On, Wax Off: Fight at Newport Point) But let's face it, there are two sides to every story, especially every fight story. Thomas Bird, the artist formerly known as "Ned," has come forward asking for the opportunity to tell his side of our Fight at N ... More >>

What You Missed: Haute Dog Howl'oween, Senior Surf Comp, Halos 'n Horns, Rob Zombie, Tiger Army

Keith MayRuh roh.​And just like that, the greatest holiday of the year is alllll over. So what'd you do? We had another action-packed weekend, of course, with our first stop at Long Beach's adorable annual tradition, the Haute Dog Howl'oween Parade and Pet Adoption Fair. Dogs? Way cuter than babie ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Local Shops Win SIMA Retailer of the Year Awards

The Surf Industry Manufacturer's Association(SIMA), which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, is perhaps most notable for its annual "surf summit," during which they hand out awards for such industry standards as "boardshort of the year," "surfboard model of the year," and more. Priding ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: A Growing Connection Between Surfing and Golf?

by Jonah Probell Half Moon BayOk, so I almost never use the first person to write about surfing in Wax On, Wax Off. But I also never show up for a round of golf at Half Moon Bay to find that big wave legend Jeff Clark is teeing off right behind me. Jeff is the guy who essentially discovered M ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Cycle Zombies Third Annual Motorcycle Rally BBQ Skate Jam

by John GilhooleyThis past Saturday, Hurley International hosted the Cycle Zombies' Third Annual Motorcycle Rally BBQ Skate Jam at their sprawling headquarters in Costa Mesa. The founders and contributors to the event and its corresponding blog are listed as "Turkey," "GEORGE," "Big Scott," a ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Echo Beach Retrospective at the Standard

​Beyond the recent documentary of the same name, the words "Echo Beach" conjure up an entire era of surf history and culture in our collective memory here in Southern California (see last week's blog posting). A group of innovative, extra-rebellious local surfers rose to global prominence not ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: "Echo Beach" Film Screening

​​Echo Beach tells the story of the Newport Beach surf scene in the eighties. Originally a reference to the steep, fast breaks between 52nd and 54th Streets, the name "Echo Beach" came to signify an entire era of Southern California surf culture. A group of innovative, extra-rebellious local sur ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Big Waves and Hurlington Beach

by John Gilhooley​This past weekend, our coast was bombarded with the biggest waves we've had in a year. Rumors raged across the county of freak triple overhead closeouts, broken leashes and far worse. We all shuddered and thought of our own near-death surfing moments when we heard that Monte Kevi ... More >>

Liquid Aloha Fest

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Step Into Highwater With Dana Brown

Dana Point filmmaker Dana Brown returns to the surf for his next documentary, Highwater, which is scheduled to make its Orange County premiere at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 24, in the Regency Lido in Newport Beach.As he did with Step Into Liquid and Dust to Glory, which both marked their local debuts w ... More >>

Maloof Money Cup Promotional Video

This video is a couple weeks old (I just saw it yesterday on LAist), but it promotes the Maloof Money Cup, "the premiere showcase for amateur and professional skateboarding in 2009," which runs as a three-day festival during the opening weekend of the Orange County Fair July 10-12 at the Orange Cou ... More >>

To Do This Weekend 5/1-5/3

National Adult Spelling Bee, Saturday, 2 p.m.This annual event in Long Beach is only for adults who live or work in the United States. Spellers can register for $30/advance or $50/week-of-event. And it's just $5 to spectate. Watch some grown ups spell their asses off! Sorry, no heckling. Bay Shore ... More >>

Get Along

Etnies GVR 08

Getting Wet With Monica Palacios Before Her 'Greetings From a Queer Señorita' Runs at Breath of Fire

Turning tricks for Jesus

If you like the X Games but wish there was just a little more Christ in the house, the innocuously named Orange County Festival this Saturday in San Juan Capistrano might be right up your alley. In eight years of Catholic school, I never got to the part of the bible where Jesus hits the half pipe, b ... More >>

'The Knife Fight'

Plan to check out the U.S. Open of Surfing? Heres some stuff youll want to know

Celebrity Surf Jammin'

Ain't nothin' like a Saturday spent on Huntington Beach watching surfers compete with actors and singers to see who ... actually, nah, just to rip shit up, check out fembot-lookin' fan girls and have good times at the 2nd Annual Surfrider Foundation Celebrity Surf Jam. And good times were had. A gro ... More >>

Surfin' Turf Wars

The Far Shore

Requiem for Surfing's Black Knight

The sanctioned Miki Dora

This Week in Softcore Products

The Changing Surf Industry at Newport Beach Surfrider

Taste the Sand

Two Kooks and the King of Creedle is surfing verite

Wave New World

Thats a Paddling

Learning to surf means having to paddle. A lot

The Joy of Eating Dust

Step Into Liquids Dana Brown surfs the dunes

Morning in Orange County

Monument Clothings gripping graphics spark surfwear sales

Pop-Culture Pasha

San Clementes Rin Tanaka makes our castoffs cool again

So Boring Its Scary!

Rich Buttholes

Once dangerous, Butthole Surfers are radio-friendlier

Eat Extreme Shit!

Crusty Demons: Minimalism at its finest

A Big Disaster

Irvine high-tech firm snuffs extreme-sports' Bluetorch.com

Kids Write the Darnedest Things

Rock, Roll, & Tumble

Scenes From the Uber-Mall

Bribe-a-rama! And boys, boys, boys. Damn, we love this job!

Man On the Beach

Bye-Bye, butt floss

Wahine carves the new publishing style

Bowling for Dullards

Scowling, butt-grinding guy is on the loose