Last Dazzling Blue we heard from the good Dr. Tim Brown about Alignment. This Dazzling Blue he edifies us about Breath, or more specifically, why it is good to breathe...

“Alignment is about body posture and breath,” says Dr. Tim Brown, “And good alignment is created when your muscles and fascia are balanced, when the front to back and inside...

It’s hard to overstate Bruce Brown’s influence on the surf universe. The Endless Summer is one of the most successful documentaries of all time. It turned the non-surfing masses onto...

“The Bonzer is without doubt surfing’s greatest example of a surfboard design slipping through the cracks,” said longtime surf scribe Nick Carroll. “It was a decade or two ahead of...

86-year-old Walter Hoffman’s eyes gleam with stoke and levity—he’s been surfing since 1945. A big wave pioneer, a beachwear industrialist, the president of Hoffman California Fabrics, I met with him...

“There are so many components to surfing—there’s the boards, the music, the art, the fashion, the photography, the film, the lifestyle. People say soccer’s bigger than surfing and I say,...

I first fell in love with the photographs of Ron Stoner through that iconic image of the balloons and surfer. Then there was the shot of the boards on roof,...

There’s the man behind the move, and then there’s the move itself. Paul Strauch learned to surf at Waikiki Beach in the late ‘40s. His grace, flow, and epic style...

I know Toots from his Instagram feed, @mr._t00ts, a chronicle of stylish, playful longboarding and gorgeous, hand-shaped surfboards. The wonderful thing about Instagram is you get to project; you the...

The history of surfing is the history of design. Look at the surf spots of the last 100 years, look at the boards that rode them—there’s a correlation. The 12-foot...

Rich and varied and full of high achievers. And because of the density and fast pace of city life, the need to wash it all off in the ocean is...

It was a confluence of events, an aligning of stars. Pro surfing hit a high-water mark in the ‘80s. The industry flourished. Tom Curren featured in Rolling Stone. Tom Carroll...

To leash or not to leash, that is the question. Albeit a relatively new question—for much of surfing’s history there was no option. You blundered, you swam. In 1970, Santa...

In the ‘50s and ‘60s skateboarding—aka “sidewalk surfing”—was severely limited due to the rough roll of metal and clay wheels. Sure, you could tic-tac down the sidewalk. But you couldn’t...

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