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Surfing is not just a sport, it’s a perspective. It’s a way of life. Yes, that sounds dramatic... Surfing can teach you life lessons you won’t learn anywhere else - Elana Miller MD
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10 Reasons Surfing Improves Humanity
I’ve met enough dedicated surfers who are absolute jerks to know that surfing alone cannot save humanity. However, after spending nearly fifteen years immersed in the sport, I believe elements of surfing have the potential to ground human beings in a uniquely meaningful way... Don’t take it from me, though. Get out there. If not for you, then for the rest of us...
1. You will care about our planet, because you’ll understand it better. When is the last time your life revolved around the weather? When could you recite, down to the minute, the time of the sunrise, sunset, high tide, or low tide? My guess is not recently. As mindless as one might consider the stereotypical surfer, there…
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Surfers are riding a wave of new technologies to their Olympic debut
As the sport takes its place in the Olympic lineup, biometrics and other types of data tracking help carve its future.
The Rise, and Hard-Won Joys, of Freshwater Surfing
No longer confined to Hawaii, Southern California and Australia, the sport’s landlocked version is a testament to the art of making do.
What Surfing Can Teach Us About Risk
Surfing and financial markets are more similar than they may seem. Both have their rewards: the rush of surfing a big wave, or the financial gains from a stock price jolt. But they can also be risky: the investor who is wrong-footed by a sudden move in the market can lose a fortune; the surfer who wipes out on a rogue wave can lose his or her life.
A Brief History of the Surfboard
These days anyone can grab a surfboard and hang 10. From its humble wooden beginnings, we explore the surfboard's past—and look to its future.
A Surfer’s Guide to Avoiding Ankle Injuries
Just as trail runners and football players worry about coming down on an ankle wrong, so do surfers. “When you’re doing airs on a surfboard you come down on your board and the water pressure from the wave against your ankle can lead to some serious tweaks,” Mr. Florence says.
Doc Paskowitz Speaks About Surfwise, Surfing & Health
Doc Paskowitz has made a reputation for himself as one of surfing’s most outspoken thinkers – a modern frontiersman, if you will. Packing his nine children into a camper and educating them through surfing, health, travel, and family...
Is Surfing More Sport or Religion?
Even hardcore devotees disagree, though many acknowledge there’s something profoundly spiritual about catching waves—a feeling scientists attribute to the power of being in the water.
More Than A Sport: How Surfing Can Help Mental Health Recovery
Surfing as a form of therapy is gaining traction around the world, and has been used to help ex-soldiers cope with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the UK and the US.
Surf's Up Inside the Gym
The latest fitness craze contender is a workout that promises all the usual exercises combined with the fun of surfing—sound of crashing waves included. Fitness seekers use a machine called the RipSurfer X, an actual surfboard affixed atop inflatable medicine balls. Participants do surf moves—paddling, pushing up, grinding—indoors, to rock and surf music and projected images of surfers.
Surfers: The Secret Weapon in Monitoring Coastline Health
Collecting sea-surface temperature data while hanging ten.
Surfing for Science: Ocean Enthusiasts Could Help Gauge Coastal Warming
Researchers want to enlist surfers, scuba divers and anglers to monitor hard-to-reach areas vulnerable to climate change.
Want to develop ‘grit’? Take up surfing
Surfers’ passion for their sport is well known – it may even be described as an addiction. One of the properties that makes surfing so addictive is its unpredictability. The ocean is a constantly changing environment, making it difficult to know exactly when and where the next wave is about to break.
What It Takes to Stay in Shape for Surfing
Spin class, yoga and boxing with a trainer help real-estate agent Louise Phillips Forbes keep her focus, which also helps her dyslexia, she says.
What Surfing With My Niece Taught Me About Life
Turns out that in surfing, as in life, fear of falling can lead to more falls.
Why Are Surfers So Chill? How Surfing Impacts Mental Health
Surfers and the science on depression, anxiety and wave-catching.
Why the founders of Surfing With Smiles believe that the ocean is for everyone
Three friends decided to make the ocean inclusive to all, by teaching kids with special needs how to surf.
10 Reasons Surfing Improves Humanity
I’ve met enough dedicated surfers who are absolute jerks to know that surfing alone cannot save humanity. However, after spending nearly fifteen years immersed in the sport, I believe elements of surfing have the potential to ground human beings in a uniquely meaningful way.
6 Life Lessons You Can Learn From Surfing
Surfing is not just a sport, it’s a perspective. It’s a way of life. Yes, that sounds dramatic, but hear me out. Surfing can teach you life lessons you won’t learn anywhere else. Let me share a few with you.
Operation Amped
Operation Amped’s mission is to share the “stoke” of the surfing community and the healing potential of surfing with seriously ill, injured, or disabled U.S. military veterans and their families.
Operation Surf
Operation Surf channels the healing powers of the ocean to restore hope, renew purpose, and revitalize community. Through programs like Operation Surf and OS6, we use the power of the ocean and compassionate mentorship to instill hope, helping wounded military heroes overcome everyday challenges and utterly transform their outlook and life. One wave at a time.
Save The Waves
Save The Waves is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting coastal resources through a unique combination of protected areas, economics and direct action.
City Surf Project
City Surf Project is a non-profit that connects underrepresented youth to the ocean and themselves through surfing
FreeSurf Magazine
FreeSurf Magazine is Hawaii's premiere surf publication, keeping you up to date with the latest in beach lifestyle and board sports.
Surf Bus Foundation
The Surf Bus Foundation's mission is to empower people to have a healing connection to the sea. We do this by engaging in ocean sports like surfing, swimming and beach games while exploring the wonder and beauty of the sea.
Surf Holidays
Whether your learning to surf or looking for the barrel of your life - visit the destination that you have always wanted to surf.
Surf Simply
urf Simply is all about technical surfing, taught simply at our boutique resort in Nosara, Costa Rica.
Surf with Amigas
An all-inclusive surf and yoga retreat for adventurous women to support and inspire each other in surfing and in life. At Surf with Amigas we are surfing addicts, but even we know that life and travel are not simply about catching waves
SurfAid
We’re a non-profit humanitarian organisation whose aim is to improve the health, wellbeing and self-reliance of people living in isolated regions connected to us through surfing.
Surfd
Surfd is a place for people who love surfing and the ocean lifestyle. We started out in 2003 as a simple web page featuring surf reports and news.
Surfer
We founded SURFER Magazine with a mission: to bring our readers a slice of the entire surfing world with each issue. And for over five decades, we've made good on that promise. Every issue of SURFER is packed with spectacular award-winning photos, provocative interviews with the leading pros, and journeys to the coolest undiscovered surf spots.
Surfers Healing
We take kids with autism surfing. We paddle out together on tandem boards to catch the waves that come our way. That's what we do; that's what we love.
SurfGirl
We're loving surfing, beachlife, surf culture and art, travel, adventure, music and the environment.
Surfing Life
We know the internet has an endless supply of free surf content, so why would you buy a magazine? Because in Surfing Life you get surf content you can’t find on the internet; content that will make a real and immediate difference to your surfing life.
Surfing The Nations
We are Surfing The Nations, a non-profit, humanitarian organization, run entirely by volunteers. We are based in Wahiawa, Hawaii, living by the motto of “Surfers Giving Back.” Our desire is to see lives changed inside and outside of our organization, locally and internationally
Surfing with Smiles
Our mission is to enhance the lives of our surfers and volunteers–if only for one day–by creating a positive and fun environment that builds confidence, gives a sense of reward to all participants, and creates life-long friendships.
Surfrider Foundation
The Surfrider Foundation is a community of everyday people who passionately protect our playground - the ocean, waves, and beaches -that provide us so much enjoyment.
Sustainable Surf
Be the catalyst that transforms surf culture into a powerful force for protecting the ocean playground.
The Surfer’s Journal
A reader-supported surf publication founded in 1992, The Surfer’s Journal is vivid, authoritative, and independent.
Tracks
The Surfer's Bible. The next best thing to being there yesterday.
USA Surfing
The Mission of USA Surfing is to promote the growth, competitive success, and positive image of surfing in the USA and to provide the best possible experience for all participants by encouraging, developing, advancing, and administrating the sport-while producing champions.
Warrior Surf Foundation
Through the Warrior Surf Foundation’s surf therapy program, we strive to enhance the psychological and physical wellbeing of Veterans, active duty service members, and their families through the experience of surfing.
Wavelength
Clean design and in-depth features, Wavelength are less about girls in bikinis and more about real surf adventure - Surfd.com
Waves International
WAVES for Development believes that surf travel should benefit the people and the communities where it happens. We connect the dots between volunteering, traveling to surf, community-based tourism and grassroots initiatives. Our mission is to inspire world travel and cultural exchange through surf experiences.
Carve
CARVE Magazine is the UK's best selling, biggest and brightest surf title. Featuring bleeding edge surf photography, top notch features and all the best bits we can find in the surfing world.
Catch Surf
Catch surf carries this same avant-garde attitude towards fashion with its premium line of men’s clothing in a timeless and classic surf-prep style all its own.
Coalition of Surfing Clubs
The Coalition of Surfing Clubs (CSC) is an international organization that represents the interests of surfing clubs throughout California and the world. It acts as a united voice to address issues related to coastal water quality, beach access, development, and legislative policy.
Drift
Drift is a coming together of the things we love. It is about ‘surfing everything’. Longboards, single fins, old-school, twinnies, quads, bonzers, brand spanking new or a plank of wood – whatever floats your board. If it brings a smile to your face then you are doing it right.
Encyclopedia of Surfing
Matt Warshaw wrote a book called Encyclopedia of Surfing. It was huge and informative, sold well, and got excellent reviews. Then he did a book called History of Surfing, and ditto. Way before that, he wrote Above the Roar, which was all Q&A pieces with surfers. It was self-published and cute and vanished without a trace. Warshaw turned the Encyclopedia of Surfing into a website and lo, it was good. History of Surfing followed, then Above the Roar. Three websites, linked up, a digital power trio, heavy and awesome, like Cream but without all the inter-band fighting.
International Surfing Association
The International Surfing Association (ISA) is the World Governing Authority for Surfing and all Surfriding activities, including Short Board, Longboard, Bodyboard, Kneeboard, Tandem, Skimboard, Tow In and Stand Up Paddle surfing. The ISA is dedicated to the development of these sports worldwide.
John John Florence
This is a fan page of professional surfer John John Florence.
Laird Hamilton
Over the last decade, Laird has transcended from surfing becoming an international fitness icon and nutrition expert. Many of today’s top professional athletes and celebrities look to Laird for training guidance, including instruction in his unique underwater resistance workouts.
Life Rolls On
Dedicated to improving the quality of life for young people affected by spinal cord injury.
NZ Surfing Magazine
A trusty Kiwi surf mag that covers life in Aotearoa and beyond - Surfd
Over the Dune
Over The Dune is about the in-between. The veiled stuff in surfing that nobody seems to talk about. The cool kids don't have time for it, the new kids pretend they already know.
Stab
A sophisticated mens interest magazine with an emphasis on high performance surfing.
Zigzag
Surf, travel, good times.
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