Back on December 5th, a 7-page fax was sent to folks within the surfboard manufacturing industry that sent shockwaves throughout the entire sport of surfing. The fax was sent by Gordon Clark, owner of Clark Foam and supplier of roughly 90% of the world’s foam blanks. In the fax, Gordon announced that Clark Foam was […]
Yesterday, South Africa’s Grant “Twiggy” Baker won the 2006 Mavericks Surf Contest.
“My strategy was to catch the biggest wave and stick ‘em…”
More info, videos and photos can be found at Surfline (the official contest site is not up to date, poorly built, hard to explore and not worth linking to).
Update: Here’s a photo of […]
After being postponed this past weekend, the invitation-only 2006 Mavericks Surf Contest is underway today. Links to all kinds of coverage can be found here.
Also, via the San Francisco Chronicle Podcasts, here is an audio interview with Grant Washburn.
Update: Matt Haughey has a brief video capture of the live webcast. If you want to […]
The Whole Ball of Wax | Jason Landry
The cold water wax has come off the surfboard and, in a few days, the warm water wax will go on. I can’t wait.