Chas Smith

5 days ago | beachgrit.com | Chas Smith

Cool business in the desert. It is Coachella week, in Southern California. The time of year when an assortment of celebrities and super musicfans flock to the desert in wide-brimmed hats to celebratethemselves. This is weekend twoand Lady Gaga, Missy Elliott, Three 6 Mafia, The Prodigy, LolaYoung and many more will be performing on multiple stages. As fate would have it, surf legend Bruce Irons will beperforming too and very nearby.

6 days ago | beachgrit.com | Chas Smith

"It is exceptionally tone deaf to approve anenormous surf park in Washington City."Trouble is brewing, again between surfers andeveryday folk who like to drink water. But who could forget thelast major conflict betwixt the two when it reared its head ingreater Palm Springs after residents became enraged at a plannedwave tank in the desert town. Coral Mountain was supposed to be anice community with a hotel, wellness spa and million dollar homesall around a Kelly Slater tank.

1 week ago | beachgrit.com | Chas Smith

"Teahupo’o is very intimidating where Trestles isnot."The Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee’sdecision to host the surfing portion of the ’28 Games at LowerTrestles is still reverberating across the surfing world. Tears inHuntington Beach, inward-looking angst in Lemoore and subtle shadebeing thrown all the way from Australia.

1 week ago | beachgrit.com | Chas Smith

Oops, they did it again. The World Surf League is in the midst of anironman streak of linguistic embarrassment, one that has stunnedeven the creative agencies responsible for some of the worstadvertising blunders ever.

1 week ago | beachgrit.com | Chas Smith

War of the Broses. Surfers found themselves sharply divided,yesterday, after the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committeeannounced that Lower Trestles would host the surfing portion of the2028 Games. Initial relief that we would all be spared ItaloFerreira performing the Huntington Hop was quickly replaced bypitched camps of those shrugging and those kinda mad. Adding to the bitter cacophony, San Diego and Orange Countiesre-ignited the bitter paternity feud over Lowers, both claimingownership.