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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Nicklas Balboa
The Black Cali Girl Who Went Missing For a Year was Finally Found But The Details are Disturbing... The Sacramento teen who vanished in May of 2024 was finally found but she wasn't alone. Back in May 2024, the family of a 14-year-old Sacramento girl …
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1 week ago | 
theinertia.com | Nicklas Balboa
See you at the Farallons! Photo: Matt O’Brien. One night over beers, an old friend named John told me about the time that he almost got sucked out to sea towards the Farallon Islands — the fabled feeding grounds for great white sharks — in San Francisco, California. The year was 2015, and San Francisco was overtaken by two things common to the Bay Area: fog and swell.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Nicklas Balboa
One night over beers, an old friend named John told me about the time that he almost got sucked out to sea towards the Farallon Islands — the fabled feeding grounds for great white sharks — in San Francisco, California. The year was 2015, and San Francisco was overtaken by two things common to the Bay Area: fog and swell. Karl, which is what locals call the far and wide reaching fog, draped low to the ground and enveloped everything in its path.
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2 weeks ago | 
theinertia.com | Nicklas Balboa
Your patience will be rewarded. Photo: John Cameron “If you can learn to surf here, you can learn to surf anywhere.” It’s the same words I heard when my surf guru Bob first took me to paddle out at sizable Ocean Beach, and it’s what I told my friends the first time they took a look over the dunes of the Great Highway. When two of my best friends moved from Massachusetts to San Francisco, they asked me to teach them how to surf. Teaching people to surf in SF is not an easy task.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Nicklas Balboa
“If you can learn to surf here, you can learn to surf anywhere.” It’s the same words I heard when my surf guru Bob first took me to paddle out at sizable Ocean Beach, and it’s what I told my friends the first time they took a look over the dunes of the Great Highway. When two of my best friends moved from Massachusetts to San Francisco, they asked me to teach them how to surf. Teaching people to surf in SF is not an easy task. The water is cold, the waves are jacked up, and the ocean is powerful.
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1 month ago | 
theinertia.com | Nicklas Balboa
These are t If a fellow surfer needs help in the water, would you be able to rescue them? Most surfers who’ve been around the ocean long enough have seen someone in distress. There’s plenty of dangerous scenarios: shark attack, drowning, sucked out in a rip, caught inside, damage from a surfboard, or hitting the bottom. And there’s not always a lifeguard around to save the day. Some researchers found that surfers are likely to conduct some form of rescue throughout their lives.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Nicklas Balboa
If a fellow surfer needs help in the water, would you be able to rescue them? Most surfers who’ve been around the ocean long enough have seen someone in distress. There’s plenty of dangerous scenarios: shark attack, drowning, sucked out in a rip, caught inside, damage from a surfboard, or hitting the bottom. And there’s not always a lifeguard around to save the day. Some researchers found that surfers are likely to conduct some form of rescue throughout their lives.
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1 month ago | 
theinertia.com | Nicklas Balboa
Just appreciate what you got. If you’re surfing, you’ve got it good. Photo: Matthew Hume//Unsplash I am in the midst of every surfer’s bad dream: six months without surfing. But I’m not physically injured, the ailment is geographical. My job takes me all over the world. Sometimes we score a Pacific island chain. Other times we end up in the middle of nowhere, like I am now… stranded without any swell. Towards the end of this dry spell I’ve realized that … like you… I am addicted to surfing.
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2 months ago | 
theinertia.com | Nicklas Balboa
Waikiki. The primordial soup of modern surfing. Photo: AussieActive//Unsplash My friends and I are seasoned layover day trippers. Whether it’s eight hours in London, or a day in the islands, we tend to schedule flights so that we can break up the long travel schedule, and enjoy a day somewhere along the way. A few months ago on a work trip to the Pacific island chain we had a day layover in Waikiki. What ensued was an unlikely, epic day that saw us nearly miss the connecting flight.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Nicklas Balboa
Waikiki. The primordial soup of modern surfing. Photo: AussieActive//UnsplashGenerate Key TakeawaysMy friends and I are seasoned layover day trippers. Whether it’s eight hours in London, or a day in the islands, we tend to schedule flights so that we can break up the long travel schedule, and enjoy a day somewhere along the way. A few months ago on a work trip to the Pacific island chain we had a day layover in Waikiki.
