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How to Buy, Store and Care For a Wetsuit with Shelby Ling

How to Buy, Store and Care For a Wetsuit with Shelby Ling

Hailing from Encinitas, CA, Shelby Ling is an artist in many mediums, including wetsuit repair. As an apprentice at Swell Stuff Surf Shop in Leucadia, she's seen suits in every manner of condition. Shelby has kindly offered up these pointers to increase the longevity of your suit, keeping it out of the repair shop and in the water.

The care and keeping of wetsuits

An essential part of most...

Auditorium with Romain Juchereau

Auditorium with Romain Juchereau

Romain Juchereau is an independent filmmaker and photographer from La Rochelle, in southwest France, with a strong love of four things: analog cameras, vinyl records, longboards, and single fins. He has always wished he could have lived his youth in the 60s and 70s, at the heyday of surf culture and filmmaking. After spending time in Noosa, Australia with a 1974 analog camera and a few expired...

Exhibitionists: Artlessliving

Exhibitionists: Artlessliving

Lucy and Craig are artists of very different sorts--Lucy works with textiles and Craig works with wood--but their individual forms of expression come together beautifully in what they call a lifestyle, not a brand. Whatever Artlessliving is, the stuff they make is unique and inspired by their travels through land and sea, throughout New Zealand, from market to market. Working with natural...

Wandering Education: Rwanda

Wandering Education: Rwanda

Lindsay Henwood continues to share details about the things she has learned through travels around the world in our ongoing Wandering Education series. Here, she tells us about what she learned in Rwanda, a difficult place filled with unexpected beauty that Westerns could learn a thing or two from. 

Wandering Education: Rwanda

By Lindsay Henwood

In 1994, I was in the second grade bringing...

Weekly Round Up // April 20 -26

Weekly Round Up // April 20 -26

Here's what you missed last week:

 

HOLES IN THE MAP: SEA MOVIES

In this episode of Sea Movies presented by Reef, filmmaker Hayley Gordon shows us the ladies' spontaneous strategy into the Pacific Northwest pays off with some fun waves and stunning scenery.

SURFING SANDCASTLES: SUNSET BEACH BY SANDRA TINARI

We asked Sandra to give us some more details about what the surf world looks like...

Quiver of the Week: April 20-26

Quiver of the Week: April 20-26

We're keeping it simple this week, with a small but diverse quiver from Guilherme Veneroz. Have you shown us yours yet?

Name: Guilherme Veneroz (@guilhermee)Location:Quiver: L to R9’0 Single Fin5’8 Twin Fin33” Longboard

Web Surfing: April 20-26

Web Surfing: April 20-26

Alright party people, here we are again, another Friday. Today we have a video that feels like an acid trip, some crazy kids skateboarding in India, some hot babes shredding, and Brad Domke doing something for which there really are no words. Strap yourselves in. 

One & Only: Carissa Moore

Since we've got a Haley Gordon show up this week, we thought we'd take this opportunity to...

Throwback Thursday: Surf Sufficient – Travel Guide

Throwback Thursday: Surf Sufficient – Travel Guide

From East OZ to western Canada, and the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, Korduroy's spent the week globetrotting. To celebrate the beauty and inevitable ups and downs of travel and surf exploration, we're bringing back a Surf Sufficient episode, Matt Whitehead's reflective Travel Guide.

ACID Magazine: Issue 1, Surf History

ACID Magazine: Issue 1, Surf History

ACID is a new surf mag out of Barcelona. The crew came to surfing by way of skateboarding and hanging out around the Mediterranean, but they are offering a unique perspective with an intellectual bent that they hope will make you want to surf, wherever you are. It's full of photos and laid out with the utmost attention to design, so while you can get the content on the interwebs, it's not the...