We customize our lives and the environment that surrounds us every day — from things as big as shaping our own boards to the smallest ones, like adding that little...

In the Burleigh Heads carpark, amid board-topped station wagons and zinc-covered noses, I met Derek Hynd. Derek was a renowned Aussie surf journalist whose profiles, essays, and tour dispatches I...

  Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. The reputation of surf...

Chas Smith is the author of “Welcome To Paradise, Now Go To Hell” and “Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing’s Greatest Love Affair.” He and Derek Rielly entertain...

Jack McCoy taught me things. His early films—“Stormriders,” “Kong’s Island”—gave me a glimpse into the Neverland that is the Australian surf scene. “The Performers” romanticized the pro surfer. Rabbit was...

We customize our lives and the environment that surrounds us every day — from things as big as shaping our own boards to the smallest ones, like adding that little...

Birdwell Beach Britches presents Jamie Brisick, author of newly published "Dazzling Blue", and William Finnegan, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, in a discussion about surfing, writing,...

A friend passed along a copy of “In Waves” by AJ Dungo and I ingested it in a single sitting, crying more than once. It’s a graphic novel, or more...

Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. This time around the sun,...

A lot happens on the Instagram feed @surfcore2001. Shane Herring banging the lip. Luke Egan heaving a rail sandwich. Tom Curren, circa The Search, gliding through a giant barrel. It...

Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. In this edition we’re spending...

By leaving…he must have thought he could get rid of his past, that with no past, no history, and thus no shame, he could try on all the styles and...

We customize our lives and the environment that surrounds us every day — from things as big as shaping our own boards to the smallest ones, like adding that little...

There’s the Kyle Field I know from the surf, the post-surf coffee, the banter about waves, music, art, books, the curse/blessing of life in Los Angeles. And then there is...