Every time we think that it might be cool to try kitesurfing, subtle little reminders like this video of 26-year-old Kevin Kearney trying to ride Tropical Storm Fay in Fort Lauderdale, Florida set us straight.
Emergency workers rushed to the scene where Kevin laid on the ground after slamming into the side of a building – and he is now listed in critical condition.
[Link: Youtube via Post Chronicle]
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While everyone else was out on the Saturday night party circuit (Kris Markovich art opening in Oside, and Neck Face opening in LA), some of surfing’s elder statesmen gathered at the Surfing Heritage Foundation for the 3rd Annual Summer Surf Film Series (August 16, 2008). Saturday’s feature was Dana Brown’s High Water which chronicles the events surrounding the 2005 Triple Crown of Surfing.
In the VIP room Wes Miller was playing smooth classic hits on his ukelele, Jesse Billhauer was rolling, Jim Kempton was signing copies of his book Surfing: The Manual: Advanced, while Randy Rarick and Spencer Croul were talking story. Everyone else was checking out the old boards and grabbing a bite.
Follow the jump for more photos.
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The San Diego law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has “formed an “action sports” practice to provide legal services to surfers, skaters, snowboarders and others who are starting their own companies.
Attorneys in the San Diego firm’s new practice area — many of whom participate in the sports themselves — will work in collaboration with other practice groups, such as business, intellectual property, tax and estate planning, product liability, real estate and labor and employment.
We could all use a little law on our side.
[Link: Law.com]
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The Washington Post’s Moira McLaughlin is as smitten with singer Tristan Prettyman (click here for an interview) as we were the first time we hung out. But, she says the new album “lacks her self-proclaimed attitude.”
There’s not a lot of obvious attitude here. . . . She does, however, have a depth, as her lyrics suggest, and she mused recently about her drifting friends and her hope for the future. “I’m kind of ready for the whole marriage and kids thing,” she said. Or at least, “something bigger than what it is now,” she added.
Aren’t we all.
[Link: Washington Post]
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Glenn Crisp, a 33-year-old physical therapist from Corpus Christy, Texas kept surfing after getting hit by a stingray. Now he’s got Vibrio vulnificus, the flesh eating virus.
As of Thursday afternoon, doctors had removed decaying flesh from his inner and outer thigh, his inner and outer calf and from the top of his left foot, in their attempt to relieve swelling and to stop the spread of the infection.
In 2007 26 people got the virus and seven of them died. Crisp, who is on anti-biotics is still in the hospital and doctors don’t know how long he will remain there.
[Link: Caller.com]
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Everyone knows he grew up in Hawaii, but now there is video proof from the Associate Press that Barack Obama has some solid water skills. Now, if we could just get some spearfishing footie we’d know for sure.
[Link: Youtube via TransWorld Surf]
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Southern Californian’s can get a copy of Billabong Media Director Jim Kempton’s book Surfing: The Manual: Advanced and have it signed in person this Saturday evening August 16, 2008 from 5-9 PM at the Surfing Heritage Foundation in San Clemente at 110 Calle Iglesia. Then on August 20, 2008, Jim will be signing books at Duke’s Malibu.
The book is described as:
The definitive guide to surfing from the world’s leading extreme sports publishers, Wavefinder. Never before has such an esteemed assembly of the world’s greatest surfers come together to provide the deepest insights and secrets of surfing for surfers.
Kempton definitely knows who to talk to.
[Link: Wavefinder]
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We’ve tried to think of all kinds of ways to monetize surf web cams, but there is nothing better than someone just handing over $1 million. Even if they are Australian dollars.
According to as story on Goldcoast.com.au, the Queensland Government’s Smart State Innovation Projects Fund has handed the money to Coastal Watch’s Chris Lane (pictured right) to help “keep beaches safe.”
Most of that will go to fund the technology which will allow Coastal Watch cameras to count the number of beach users at a particular break, measure wave height, and the shoreline position hourly. . . .It will also provide real-time pictures of beaches which allow lifesavers to monitor areas from their clubhouse. . . “It’s good to be able to help out surfers to find the best surf or boaties where the chop is,” said Mr Lane, “but it’s great to be able to help keep people safe when they go to the beach
Right. And it’s great to have another $1 million, right? Surfline. . . . you listening?
[Link: Goldcoast.com.au]
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A. Garrett Lisi, the surfer/snowboarder whose Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything sent shock waves through the theoretical physic world last year has just won another grant from the Foundational Questions Institute to continue work on his theory, according to a story on Newscientist.com.
Lisi will get $77,222 to work on his theory, which involves using a recently mapped 248-dimension mathematical structure called E8 to unify all the fundamental particles and forces, including gravity. In the last round of awards in 2006, FQXi gave Lisi $77,280 over two years.
That should keep him in the water for a while.
[Link: New Scientist]
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Looks like Grant “Twiggy” Baker and Greg Long may have landed an XXL monster while out Saturday, August 9, 2008 about a kilometre outside Dungeons in South Africa’s Hout Bay.
“The waves were definitely the biggest I’ve ever seen in South Africa and possibly the biggest anywhere,” Baker said. “Greg towed me into one giant wave that was so big I was terrified and started hyper-ventilating. . . . Later, when we saw the photos taken by Craig Kolesky with a large lens from Chapman’s Peak, we realised that those were possibly the biggest waves ever recorded, on a par with the rides we had a Cortes Bank in January which were measured at well over 70 feet.”
Guess we won’t know until Bill Sharp gets out his ruler.
[Link: News24]
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