0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Small Steps, Big Impact: How We Can All Be Better Stewards of Our Local Beaches By Jake Howard Over the weekend, South Orange County was doused with a good rain. On Sunday morning, after a brisk surf at Uppers, I…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Keep Your Eyes On The Horizon: An Incredible Time to be a surfer in Dana Point, San Clemente By Jake Howard With some great memories in the rearview mirror and some epic new beginnings coming down the line, we’re gliding into 2019 in…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Prepping For The Big Stuff: How Greg Long Gets Ready for Giant Surf By Jake Howard This week, the West Coast was bombarded by a series of strong North Pacific swells. Big-wave surf breaks including Mavericks in Half…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Salt Creek Soul: A Quick Dive into the Dana Point Surf Scene By Jake Howard The next crew of Dana Point standouts are rapidly on the rise. From the high school ranks to the surf club scene,…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines America’s First World Junior Champion: San Clemente’s Kirra Pinkerton Makes Statement By Jake Howard It’s been a breakout year for 16-year-old San Clemente surfer Kirra Pinkerton, who just capped off her dream run by winning the…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Talking ‘Momentum’: New HBO Film Documents the Story of Kelly Slater and the Momentum Generation By Jake Howard It’s been nearly 30 years since Kelly Slater groggily mumbled, “It’s the morning of the final.” The year was 1990, and a…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Reason to Be Thankful—Caribbean Style Positive Vibe Warriors raise over 200 surfboards for Trinidad and Tobago By Jake Howard Keeping the vibes alive as we roll into the holiday season,…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Another Morning with the Tritons: San Clemente High School Surf Team Keeps the Legacy Rolling By Jake Howard It was 7:30 in the morning, and there were a couple dozen teenagers swarming the only peak at T Street. The surf…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Team USA Wins Silver: Local Surfers Shine at ISA World Junior Surfing Championship By Jake Howard The drumbeat toward the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and the debut of surfing in the games marches ever forward. And the closer…
0 EYE ON SC, SC SURF, Surf Headlines Defining ‘Perfect Surfing’: How Tom Servais’s Iconic Image of Tom Curren at Pipeline in 1991 Came to Be By Jake Howard Most days you can find surf photographer Tom Servais either in his home office in Dana Point fiddling with photo files, dropping…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Celebrating a Half-Century of the Hobie Cat With a regatta in Dana Point this weekend, the world’s favorite little sailboat gets some time in the sun By Jake Howard “Phil started it…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Ten Minutes with Griff: Catching Up with WSL Championship Tour Rookie and San Clemente Original Griffin Colapinto By Jake Howard Everyone expected big things from 20-year-old Griffin Colapinto when he qualified for the WSL Championship Tour last year, but nobody could have…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Club Control: San Clemente Board Riders Club Goes Undefeated in 2018 with a Big Win at Church. By Jake Howard With a pumping hurricane swell hitting the point, the West Coast Board Riders season came to a dramatic conclusion last weekend as…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Jackie Baxter: 1948-2018 By Jake Howard On Oct. 4, surfing pioneer Jackie Baxter peacefully slipped from this world. An integral player in the early days of the North…
0 SC SURF, Surf Headlines Time to Bust Out Your Paddle: 2018 Pacific Paddle Games Come to Doheny State Beach Oct. 6-7 By Jake Howard The sun has hardly set on the Ohana Fest, and it’s time for another weekend of good times and fun in the…
