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Brett Simpson has home-break advantage in U.S. Open at Huntington Beach
Surfing, as he started out, was not the gig Brett Simpson thought it would be. He started late — he was already 12! — and so many of the kids his age were polished performers. He, on the other hand, was still challenged by the basics of standing up and catching a wave. Simpson's first competition didn't go well. Frustrated, he thew such a temper tantrum that his mother, Lynne, said she would never take him back to a surfing event. He knew what he wanted surfing to look like, though, and it wasn't just riding out a wave for as long as possible like other people his age. He imagined flying high off the wave and attempting tricks he knew were going to be tough...
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Brett Simpson has home-break advantage in U.S. Open at Huntington Beach
Surfing, as he started out, was not the gig Brett Simpson thought it would be. He started late — he was already 12! — and so many of the kids his age were polished performers. He, on the other hand, was still challenged by the...
Man who tried to smuggle cocaine in surfboard gets 5 years in prison
A 31-year-old man arrested at Los Angeles International Airport with a hollowed-out surfboard containing nearly seven pounds of cocaine was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison. Jesse Edgardo Herrera, of Pomona, pleaded guilty in...
Today is International Surfing Day. Why surf?
Today is International Surfing Day. But, really, what's so special about surfing? Surfrider Foundation started the celebration 10 years ago -- a day for groms, newbs and pro-surfers alike to...
Cross training: Christians embrace Daniel Plan's mind-body-spirit diet
When Jim Black leads people on a robust walk three times a week on the grounds of the 120-acre Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, he's got powerful company: God. The several dozen people who join him have shown up with the same hopes that anyone...
At Hurley show, surf, skate and lowrider worlds meet up
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Ricky Grigg, oceanographer and top-ranked big-wave surfer, dies at 77
It was just after a January storm in 1953, and the waves were epic. With other adrenaline-addled young surfers, 16-year-old Ricky Grigg caravaned up the coast from Santa Monica to Rincon, just beyond Ventura. Racing with his board into the roar...
UC Santa Barbara students paddle out to honor Isla Vista victims
Hundreds of UC Santa Barbara students took to the ocean to honor six of their own who were killed last week during Elliot Rodger's deadly rampage through the seaside college town of Isla Vista. With their surfboards, group floatation devices...
No change to rules governing wave time at Newport Beach's Wedge
When 66-year-old Lance Jencks first began bodysurfing at the Wedge in Newport Beach, he would often arrive at 7 a.m. and stay until 11 a.m. Jencks wanted to get out there early because he loved the morning's glassy waves, he explained to the...
Are bro-mantic songs taking over country music?
Female country singers are complaining that their music is being pushed off the airwaves by a new crew of young, male, “bro-country” musicians singing interchangeable songs about dirt roads, pickup trucks, girls in tiny cutoff jeans and...
'Slow is Fast' traces a more elemental California
In the fall 2012, three friends ? Dan Malloy, Kellen Keene and Kanoa Zimmerman ? decided to bicycle much of the length of California and, by way of photographs and interviews, share what they encountered in a book. The result is ?Slow is Fast? (Patagonia: 112 pp., $30 paper), a kind of...
Hobie Alter dies at 80; shaped Southern California surf culture
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Exercise class is in session — let the sweating begin
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Southern Californians ready for latest chapter of World Book Night
You'd think giving away books would be an easy thing to do, but Melissa Eggerling tries to put a lot of creativity and a bit of theater into the act. On Wednesday, Eggerling will be one of 800 Southern Californians participating as "givers"...
Body surfing equipment enhances the workout
Back when I was a kid going to the beach every weekend with my dad, I never thought of body surfing as a workout. It was just pure exhilaration — dog-paddling out there for hours, waiting for a good swell, then swimming like crazy for a couple of...
Surfers, bodysurfers battle over Newport Beach's iconic Wedge
An old surfing battle is resurfacing in Newport Beach. A city panel, the Blackball Working Group, will take the first step toward...
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Another shark attack in Hawaii: Is it revenge for shark fin soup?
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Treasure trove of surfing photos is a wistful wave to the past
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Kick back at Oahu's Turtle Bay Resort
The gilt-trimmed high-rises of Waikiki offer a seductive escape from L.A. But those who rent a car — a convertible, please —- can find a simpler side of Oahu on the North Shore, an hour or so away, where locals and tourists carry surfboards...
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