The Surf Blog Spot

Retired FDNY firefighter, Brennan Savage, commissioned a surfboard to commemorate the firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11. Check out the other pictures.

Brennan worked with Iron Cross Surfboards of Encinitas to create a surfboard honoring the 343 firefighters who gave their lives.

Photo By Eduardo Contreras

This truly is a nice rack. I was anxiously awaiting my Nice Rack surfboard rack while checking the surf report. The next thing I know there was a knock at the door and a package with The Nice Rack shipping label on it. I knew the surfboard racks had arrived and my wife was interested to see The Nice Rack. We opened it together and we were both stoked on The Nice Rack. It was almost as fun as opening a wooden crate marked “Fra-gi-le” and finding a leg lamp!

Order your Nice Rack

The Nice Rack definitely installs wherever you want it. Install this rack in your home, garage, bedroom, board shops, shaping rooms, or merchandising displays. These racks are a great addition to any board riding enthusiast! You can fit a surfboard, wakeboard and snowboard all on one rack. Where else would you store all those boards? I know I will get great use with this rack.

Store all 3 boards

I received the Surfboard Wall Rack Single 1 Set and I look forward to adding more of the racks (and new surfboards to those racks) haha. That’s the great thing with The Nice Rack. You can easily add extra surfboard racks to your existing rack. Rack expansion has endless possibilities. All you do is snap in the new rack. “It’s a snap!”

The Nice Rack in a snap

Watch a DEMO on how to install the surfboard rack.

The other cool thing about The Nice Rack is they are a green company. So you know you are going green when you ORDER!

• Nice Racks are made of 100% recycled ABS plastic

• All packaging and shipping waste are recycled

• Packaging Materials used for shipping are re-used materials

On Saturday, September 19, Surf City USA celebrates Huntington Beach’s Centennial with a tribute to the city’s surf heritage and coastal environment with the much-anticipated “Surfboards in the Sand.” Thousands of surfers and lovers of surf culture will gather with their surfboards on Huntington City Beach adjacent to the famed HB Pier to be a part of the world’s largest surf photo commemorating 50 years of professional surfing at the Huntington Beach Pier.

 Anyone with a surfboard (long boards or short boards acceptable – no boogie or skim boards, please); individuals, groups, families, surf clubs. So bring, beg or borrow a board to be part of this history-making photo event.

Surfboards in the Sand information

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Here is a pretty cool California surfboard shaper!

New Kreation Surf Products

You might be wondering…is “Powersliding” serious? Most definitely not. Is this a sport? It’s ridiculous, totally undefined and up for interpretation. What is the event about? Powersliding made us think…what’s next? It’s something we found these creative kids doing that kind of makes people think about what’s possible. So we built them a massive course, setting the stage to see what they can do.

Check this video for a teaser of some powersliding that will go down next week.

Don’t forget to bring your camera and your surfboard!!

Event Listing:

WHAT:       Levi’s 3rd Annual Powersliding Championships – The event includes a sizable street course that will test the competitors’ freestyle skills with 40-foot, four-story rails and boxes, and a cool ocean breeze. Other event highlights include a performance from Brooklyn rockers Matt & Kim, complimentary treats from Mountain Dewand Kogi Korean BBQ taco trucks, and free custom screen-printed apparel, all surrounding the massive Powersliding course.

WHERE:     Santa Monica Pier parking lot off HWY 1, Santa Monica, CA

WHEN:       April 15, 2009 – 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Celebrity judges including Olympic Gold Medalist skier Jonny Moseley, Jason Acuña (“Wee-Man” from Jackass), and Kendra Wilkinson (the too hot to handle star of The Girl’s Next Door), sliders, Brooklyn rockers Matt and Kim, KROQ’s Psycho Mike, Catfish, and the public.

Where in the world are the Cook Islands?  Visit www.findthecookislands.com to find out!

U.S. residents have the chance to enter a sweepstakes to win the grand prize of a week-long trip for two people. To enter, visit the Find The Cook Islands website.  The sweepstakes runs now through June 16, 2009

Grand Prize:  A week long trip for two with round-trip, non-stop airfare from Los Angeles on Air New Zealand, three nights accommodation at The Crown Beach Resort in Rarotonga and two nights at the Aitutaki Lagoon Resort & Spa, breakfast for two each morning, inter-island flight on Air Rarotonga, an introductory dive and a special flower lei greeting upon arrival.

Watch surfing highlights from the first day of the 2009 Quiksilver Pro – Gold Coast, Australia.

Check out Kelly Slater riding a 5′4″ rounded nose surfboard that he shaped→ Go to Round 1, Heat# 8. Slater is insane! I have a 5′6″ fish surfboard (about 3″ thick and lime green) from the 1980’s and I think that thing is hard to ride. But Slater is Slater for a reason. That’s why he has 9 world titles. What else does he have to prove?

The event was called off Sunday due to strong onshore winds and smaller swell. The contest directors will make a call Monday morning (Local Snapper Rocks time).

LIVE surfing contest webcast

Celebrity Surfboard giveaway!

This surfboard sweepstakes is ending very soon (January 29, 2009), so click and enter. This surfboard was signed by Matthew to help promote his new surfing movie, “Surfer, Dude.” The giveaway is valued at more than $400.

Enter and Win a surfboard signed by Matthew McConaughey

In case you forgot…there is only one day left until Christmas!  I hope everybody has been good this year and I hope you do not receive any coal.  Maybe a new surfboard??

Well, if surfing is not your thing on Christmas Eve and you are overwhelmed with the in-laws….then take a seat and find out exactly where Santa is making his next delivery.  He might be coming to your surfing town as we speak.  He might even have a new wetsuit or surfboard for you!!

 Track Santa

A Brazilian just broke the world record for surfing on the longest surfboard after riding a 30 ft. (9.16 meter) longboard for more than 10 seconds.

Rico de Souza, who broke his 2006 record, has done it again. He broke his 2006 record on a 26.4 ft. “shorter board.” I wonder what his next world record longboard will measure??

Watch Rico de Souza surf his world record longboard

A second world record surfboard (4:44min) video with more surfing and cooler music

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