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Please Take My Wax Poll

Look – Mick Fanning apparently likes Sex Wax.  What kind of wax do you use?  Click on the poll above and tell me!

P.S. This is research (and highly scientific).  Gracias.

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Mavericks Update: Congratulations Bertish

Congratulations Chris Bertish – 2010 Mavs Winner

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The 2010 Mavericks Surf Contest Finals are supposed to begin at 1:10 Pacific.  Here’s the list of finalists (from Ustream):

One of these guys is taking home $50,000.  Good luck!

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City Surf Fix: Saturdays Surf NYC & Mollusk

I’m writing a story on how to get your surf fix while living in the city, so as part of my research this week, I’ve been visiting New York’s surf shops…

Saturdays Surf NYC is a city-chic surf shop located at 31 Crosby Street (SoHo).  The selection of goods is smallish, but they do have beautiful JC and Lightning Bolt boards of all different colors, shapes, and sizes- along with cold water wax and leashes.  The back door opens onto a courtyard, which may or may not be occupied by a humongous brown dog.

Choosing to capitalize on surfers’ coffee dependence, Saturdays put a tiny café area in the front of the shop- okay, it’s really just a counter with fancy espresso machines.  The lattes are made with love by friendly, handsome guys- something that’ll cost you extra: $4 for a small, no special requests.  It’s good coffee, however, and walking away with your understated white cup will definitely make you feel “cool.”  Unless, that is, you’re fumbling to take covert photos of the place:

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Eddie Aikau 2009 Last Heat

The amount of time between set waves is, like, stunning.  This is nutty and awesome.

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11.15.09 Highlights: Wipeouts

 

Board without a rider.

Don't really need to say anything about this one.

Takin' a beating.

 

 

 

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ROCKAWAY November 15th, 2009

Here are some photos I took on a recent trip to Rockaway during that crazy swell:

To see the rest of the album, click HERE.

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PAST DEADLINE from Surfline.com

The guys over at Surfline.com put together this sick slideshow of “New York’s impossible run of surf.” Check it out.

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