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3 days ago | 
beachgrit.com | Chas Smith
“I swear to God, this thing’s body was so fat, Ithought it was somebody’s boat. I thought it was an orca..."It’s shark season, again, in California. Thattime of year when Great Whites big and small come and enjoy thetasty waves and cool buzz that only the Golden State can provide. Now surfers have long suspected that sharks may be near thoughconventional wisdom had them further north, patrolling Alcatraz forexample.
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4 days ago | 
beachgrit.com | Chas Smith
Ultra heart-warming surf candy. In a heart-warming story taking the globe bysurprise, surfers everywhere including Huntington Beach,California, Australia’s Gold Coast and Sao Paulo, Brazil haverallied around Miss England as she gets ready to compete in theMiss World beauty pageant. Milla Magee, 24, is currently inHyderabad, India training for the May 31st competition but herspirit, likely, bobbing in the tasty waves of her hometown ofNewquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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5 days ago | 
beachgrit.com | Chas Smith
Dancing for dollars. The World Surf League Championship Tour is atough place to scratch out a living. With the surf industrydowngraded to the surf sector, tariffs absolutely gutting the fincategory, uncertain economies, influencers vacuuming up advertisingdollars etc. there are more sticker-less boards in each competitionthan ever before. It might be understood, then, that professional surfers at thehighest level of the spart (sport + art) are rabidly celebratingever dirham earned.
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6 days ago | 
beachgrit.com | Chas Smith
"I'll tell you what, I do like your blonde friend here. Let me see your belly button..."
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6 days ago | 
beachgrit.com | Chas Smith
Surf rage with a twist. A proper surf rage has not made the news forquite some time but, thankfully, the seal has been broken and wehave a “surf etiquette dispute” in Santa Cruz involving a wantondisplay of ninja skills, a slow motion police chase, a belated tripto the hospital and a felony charge. But let us not tarry, let us hot-foot to the parking frontingThe Hook where the action went down.
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1 week ago | 
beachgrit.com | Chas Smith
Jimmy Slade stabs Hawaii in the back. A tough morning for surfers in California,Hawaii, Australia and Europe, with the news that the FoxBroadcasting Company has cancelled the North Shore Oahu dramaRescue: HI-Surf after its inaugural season. The network series wasone of the most expensive, each episode costing between $3 – $4million dollars, though popular and there was much hope, early,that it would be renewed. That began to fade around February.
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1 week ago | 
beachgrit.com | Chas Smith
"It was quite intimidating... they were prettyjacked up, both mentally and physically.”Nicolas Kim Coppola, born in Long Beach,California circa 1962 to a professor father anddancer/choreographer mother, was destined to be somethingdifferent. His paternal uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, had stampedhis name on filmmaking by the time young Nicolas was 10, with themasterpiece The Godfather and the li’l dreamer wanted to follow himinto a life of moving pictures.
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1 week ago | 
beachgrit.com | Chas Smith
"If you look back in the 50s and the 60s, surferswere the outcasts..."Odd what vacuums will do. But you are certainlyaware of Huntington Beach, California and its pivot from Surf City,USA to MAGA hotspot. The Orange County town of nearly 200,000 soulshas long shared the generally conservative outlook of its neighborsthough, according to a new feature in The Telegraph,went rabid for Trump and his brand of gilded populism afterGovernor Gavin Newsom went heavy-handed during the Covid-19pandemic.
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1 week ago | 
beachgrit.com | Chas Smith
"...a destination for surfers and those seeking asurf-themed lifestyle community in Texas."One of the earlier surf tubs in these not soUnited States was the NLand Surf Park very near increasinglypopular Austin, Texas. The Wavegarden-powered lagoon was founded bybeer baron Doug Coors and swung its gate wide in October 2016 aftersorting a lawsuit from pesky environmentalists. Success never came.
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1 week ago | 
beachgrit.com | Chas Smith
Julian Wilson's hometown the scene of muchsadness. But how good was it, just yesterday, to seeAustralia’s Julian Wilson return to vintage form at the Bonsoy GoldCoast Pro? Finding himself in the elimination round, theclean-shaven 36-year-old unleashed a torrent of air reverses todispatch title-favorite Jack Robinson. Very fine. You know, of course, that Wilson hails from Coolum Beach thereon the Sunshine Coast.
