I’ve had my Ice Nine Bonzer for a couple months now but we had a stretch of terrible waves. And then we got one of the best swells we’ve had all year and the night before my shaper dropped off a new stringerless EPS board that I’ve been waiting on for quite a while. So […]
The more we explore the essence of surfing and try and simplify it down to the bare necessities, the more we realize that the list is amazingly short. A board, some baggies or wetsuit (depending on where you live), and some wax and you’re set. Luckily all three of these areas are seeing growing options […]
I was at my local surf shop recently talking about this and that, when the owner, knowing my penchant for green surf products, put a 9” longboard fin in my hand and informed me that it was a fully recyclable plant based fin manufactured right here in my hometown of San Luis Obispo, California. With […]
So I went to SurfExpo in Orlando this past Friday. I was actually looking forward to catching a glimpse of some new companies or products out there doing things a different way. I was sadly let down. Here’s a snippet of an email I sent to Ricardo after I got home from SurfExpo on Friday: […]
Phoresia staffers attended the 2007 Orlando Surf Expo to check out what’s going on in the sustainability movement within the surf industry. I was fortunate to catch up with Ned MacMahon from HomeBlown Foam and put my hands on some of their new Biofoam. HomeBlown also had a really nice fish there that Ned shaped […]