Paper Sea Quarterly is back with “The Hand Made Issue.” Like last quarter, they’ve given us a little taste of the contents with “Board Stories.” If you enjoy what you read, be sure to purchase the mag here.  Board Stories In his forty-plus years of designing and shaping surfboards Maurice Cole has established himself as…

Doing something that no one has ever done before is a very attractive proposition for lots of people. That drive to be the first or only is how we get people to walk across Niagara Falls on a tight rope, or eat 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes. Extreme examples aside, though, us regular folk are rarely…

This weekend welcomes another surf film festival, this time to La Plancha beach bar in Bali, Indonesia. Taking a break from the perfect waves to watch movies about surfers catching perfect waves is, in a word, perfect. This is the 6th straight year of the Ombak festival, and they will be presenting 20 films in…

Hello, hello, hello, and how ya doin? This week brings a nice assortment of web-based nonsense with everything from super south swells for the U.S. southwest and lots of skateboarding plus a bike that serves as a massively impressive pack mule. Some are long, some are short, and one contains a special link to a…

In today’s roundup, we check in with John John’s recovery process and get introduced to a 16-year old skater who’s already doing things that pretty much no one has done before. We’ve also got some goofy bodyboarders, the standard surf trip stories, a shaping shorty from Hawaii’s North Shore, and a surprisingly candid discussion about…