Welcome to the Chasing Surf Podcast. Today’s episode is actually our first, and it came about by happenstance, when we ran into our friend Miles Doughty from Slightly Stoopid at the Cali Roots Festival in Monterey last year. I’d talked to Miles a year earlier about Stoopid’s work with Surfrider following the oil spill at […]

Well, the surf hasn’t been too hot of late, so while we’re waiting for the fall swell to fill in I decided to post some new Surf Art. If you see anything you’d like or are interested in custom work, don’t hesitate to contact me here for more info. Thanks for checking it out! – […]

We’ll go ahead and call it the SUP slam heard ’round the world. It was just going to be a lonely outtake for a surf doc, but one 10-second share on Instagram and this poor SUP SOB getting creamed by a set wave has been viewed a million times in two days thanks to reposts […]

As you’ve probably heard by now we’ve officially released our new California surf film, The El Niño Effect. The film is available for free on YouTube, and you can read a review of the film at SurferToday: In the winter 2015/2016, the El Niño storms slammed the West Coast of USA. As a result, the […]

After receiving countless submissions and recommendations from bands and fans throughout California, we’re happy to announce the soundtrack for our upcoming El Niño surf documentary, The El Niño Effect, due out later this year. Special thanks to Cole Leksan of The Olés, and Andrew Rubin of The Spaces Between, for their contributions and passion for […]

The final horn of the Titans of Mavericks surf contest had sounded a minute earlier, but Greg Long wasn’t going to let an expired contest clock prevent him from catching the biggest wave of the day. Long paddled past the last two surfers in the lineup (including event winner Nic Lamb) and air dropped through […]

We’ve released a new trailer for our upcoming El Niño Effect surf documentary, featuring waves from Rincon and music from Santa Barbara-based The Olés. “Goin’ Back to Cali” is the track, off their album Westward Bound.

After taking a few weeks off (spring break?), El Niño was back this week, bringing some nice slabs to the Santa Cruz coast. It made for a fun day for the surfers on hand, which ranged from classic longboarders, to kayakers, SUPs to shortboarders. Everyone seemed to be taking advantage of the bump in swell […]

I almost never name surf spots in the photos I take, out of respect for the local surfers and the spots they deserve to enjoy in peace. Unless there’s a publicly-held surf contest involved (a la Mavericks), I usually just label the photo “Central Coast,” or something non-descript – which could mean hundreds of surf […]

As the boat started to back away from the dock, you could see the nerves start to take hold of everyone on board. Empty handrails were replaced with white-knuckle death grips, and the early-morning banter quickly gave way to silent stares to the breakwater … where booming waves sprayed the rocks below Pillar Point Air […]

Big-wave surf contests are getting hard to come by. Earlier in the week, the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational was called off at the last second due to lack of swell at Waimea Bay. If the contest isn’t resuscitated by Feb. 29, it will be the sixth straight year the Eddie […]

Congratulations again to Nic Lamb, who won the Titans of Mavericks surf contest on Friday. Lamb took home $30,000, while Greg Long earned $10,000 for the boldest drop and Jamie Mitchell $10,000 for the best barrel. For updates on the surf film and upcoming photo galleries, Sign up for Our Newsletter! Here’s a photo gallery […]