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Surfing And Sharks
All surfers have some kind of relationship or stigma with sharks. They are the mysteriously fascinating predators that swim beneath your feet when you’re waiting for a set, the creatures that can smell the blood from your reef rash from…
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“Fire And Water”: More Than a NY Surf Documentary
Rarely, there comes a time when I fall in love with a story—when I discover a story that is about more than surfing, more than news, more than money and more than just plain inspiration. Instead, it’s a story about…
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“By The Way” Sheds Light On Unsung Surfers
Southampton, N.Y. native and 27-year-old filmmaker Hayley Gordon never expected her women’s surf film “By The Way” to reach over 31,000 views and be featured on Surfer Magazine’s website, but after a few weeks, her first real surf project turned…
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Carissa Moore Talks Triple Crown and Hopes For Future
This year was full of major controversies, complications, and scandal in the sport of surfing. Aside from the truth about Andy Irons’ death, the implementation of big-ticket tour events, and Kelly Slater’s premature crowning tritely referred to as “Title-gate,” surfing…
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The Encyclopedia of Surfing Online
When surfer, writer, and once editor of SURFER Magazine, Matt Warshaw wrote the Encyclopedia of Surfing in 2003, the internet was nowhere near what it is today so publishing it in book form made total sense – and that’s what he…
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Better Late Than Never: Gorkin Gets A Spot in the Quiksilver Pro New York Trials
It all started at the end of last month when the Quiksilver announced the surfers that would be competing in the trials for the Quiksilver Pro New York. Mixed in with a handful of international surfers were a couple of East Coast…
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Hey Bra! Junior Pro Keanu Asing Talks US Open
Keanu Asing from Ewa Beach, Hawaii is one of the top junior surfers in the world at 18 years old. In April, he dominated the ASP 1-Star Unsound Pro here on Long Island, defeating local Long Beach poster-boy Balaram Stack….
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A Chat with Sally Fitzgibbons
Last month Sally Fitzgibbons won the Swatch Girls Pro France and is quickly closing the gap between her and, the current number 1 in the Women’s ranking, Carissa Moore. Shortly after the contest we were able to ask Sally a…
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Artist Profile: David Macomber of Shark Sugar
When I think of surf art, I usually think of surfboard murals, spray paint, canvases cascading with wave scenes, barreling photos and some puka shells thrown in. I’ve rarely seen everything rolled into one style. David Macomber of Shark Sugar…
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Artist Interview: Drew Brophy
When you think of surf artists, Drew Brophy should be one of the artists to immediately pop in your mind. The guy went from living, surfing and painting his own boards in South Carolina to living in Hawaii and airbrushing…
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A Friendly Friend: Interview With Pro Surfer Chris Friend
After taking third in the ASP 4-Star Protest Vendee Pro in late April, up-and-coming WQS surfer Chris Friend took the time to answer some questions for SURFBANG about his foot recovery, competing in Europe and traveling the world. Remember to…
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Photographer Profile: Greg Heine of Northeast Sessions
In the second edition of our Photographer Profile series I had a chat with a friend of mine, Greg Heine. Greg started taking photos as a hobby after graduating high school while attending college in Boston and has since honed…
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Interview with TheSURFNetwork.com’s Ira Opper
The future is now! We’ve reached a point where you can buy, download, and watch pretty much any surf movie movie right on your computer or even your mobile device. The place where you can do all this is theSURFnetwork.com…
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Intervew with Zoltan Torkos
Over the past couple of days, the internet has been buzzing with the news of Zoltan Torkos landing surfing’s first official kickflip. His video on YouTube has gone viral, gaining over 250,000 views in only a few days. I thought I’d…
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Photographer Profile: Scott A. Miller
Here’s something new that takes a better look at a photographer or artists’ work and give us an inside view of what inspires them to do what they do. I’ve done some one-off interviews with various talented people in the surf industry…
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Exclusive Interview with Jamie O’Brien
To make it easier for everyone, we’ve included all three parts of our interview with Jamie O’Brien in one post.
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Joel Parkinson Injury Update
I’m sure you guys remember the gnarly cut to the heel that took Joel Parkinson down days before the J-Bay contest right? Well if you don’t you can relive the events here. A few days after the injury, Parko made…
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Naff le Skell T-Shirts First Look and Interview
New York photographer Matt Clark has been working quietly on his new project for some time now. It’s called Naff le Skell and it is a line of t-shirts designed by Matt himself. These aren’t your typical “surf brand” shirts…
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Interview with Stop Motion Animator and Artist Karim Rejeb
If you haven’t seen it by now, you really need to go watch the stop motion animation surfing video made by Karim Rejeb. It is seriously out of this world awesome. Over the past few weeks it has been getting…
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Jamie O’Brien Twitter Convo
Out of all the pro surfers on Twitter, Jamie O’Brien definitely spends the most time on there. Today I thought I’d try and get JOB to answer a few questions for the site and it worked out. In the first…
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