Beach Clean-ups Y'all June 9th in Far Rockaway

From Surfrider and Barefoot Wine:

http://nyc.surfrider.org/2012/05/barefoot-wine-beach-clean-up-june-9th/

From Brady at RBSC:


Time to mobilize the troops!!! Sat. June 9th @ 10am (@ the Spot) we are kicking off the 1st annual Rockaway Beach Clean up/Bar-B-Que/Board Swap. Everyone is welcome! Please spread the word..... everyone who helps with the beach cleaning effort from 10 am to noon is welcome to FREE food and beverages @ The Spot (302 Beach 87th st). Friends and family, kids and pets, members and non-members.....Everybody is welcome!!! 
This is a "Community" effort sponsored by the following neighborhood businesses and groups:


Rockaway Beach Surf Club
The NYC Parks Dept.
The Spot
Boarders
St. James Clothing
Rippers
Caracas
Rockaway Coffee
Veggie Island
Long Trail Beer


Hopefully more sponsors to come..... (if you want to get involved please contact the surf club asap)


Our goal is to clean from 107th st to 84th st. (if we can do more than that, that would be great). We are meeting at the Spot at 10. those of you who have bikes please bring them. (you can go to the farthest areas) we will send people out in groups to cover specific blocks. you will be equipped with bags (garbage and recycle) and rubber gloves. There will be a crew of cooks back at the ranch making you a delicious lunch!! At noon when the beach is clean and everyone is hungry we'll have a BBQ and a board swap so please bring any boards you want to sell or trade. We will also be raffling off a brand new snowboard!!! 
Please come out and support Rockaway Beach!

Mat Meet NY 2012 Video

It rained, it shined and we done had a good time...

Thanks for coming out!

Video coming soon...

Wednesday Commute

The Wegener Paipo

Here is a video of Jon Wegener talking about his paipo for Board Riders Review.

 

Speaking for myself, I can't wait to get one!

Find out more about Jon Wegener at Wegener's Finless Frontier.

All the Fish!

The 2012 Fish Fry(e) was a roaring success with delicious waves, tasty winds, and more Fish than you could shake a spear at.

Kris putting pedal to metal.  You know he's serious when his hand never leaves the yogurt.

Chris Gentile of Pilgrim Surf & Supply, giving the Chicken Petter a shaka hood ornament.

Piles of keel fish, one of the original Mini Simmons, hand planes, even a Lightning Bolt.  Didn't get a picture of it but there was a fiberglass handplane that was one big deep concave and looked sick.

Petro of Faktion Surfboards, petting the Chicken.

 Todd of the Endless Bummer blog.  Love this brother.  He's like a stoke amplifier.

This Sunset stinger single fin ruled.  Gave me one of my favorite rides of the day. 

Enough geekery, time to get the Chicken Petter wet!  It did great in the 4' waves.  I felt like I was riding an antigravity skateboard.  Floaty, caught waves easy, rode loose, and just wanted to dance like James Brown.

Huge thanks to Tyler Breuer, Chris Gentile and SMASH Surf for organizing this event and all the other things they do to make surfing in NY more fun!

Body Whomp, Florida.

I recently took a trip to Florida to visit family. Whenever I'm down there I always go pay a visit to the place that started my love affair with the ocean. The conditions were really bad with lots onshore wind and a bad current. The waves had hardly any shoulder so a body whomp was the call for each day. The fun factor was way up!