Dylan Vargas is "obsessed with offshore mornings, hollow barrels, glassy evening sessions and monster swells"—but then again, so are we. Since becoming a "complete water dog" in high school, Dylan says the ocean is "the most magical and humbling thing in the world." Residing in San Diego, California, with many of SoCal's famous breaks nearby, Dylan keeps his finger on the shutter button,...
Scott Szegeski has a surf shop out in Asbury Park, NJ, but he also makes surf prints (that he presumably features in the shop). We've got an Exhibitionists feature in the works with him, but he had some news he wanted to share in the meantime. He's having his first solo art show at a gallery in Montauk, NY, called Outeast, running from June 15 until July 2. The show is called "etymology"...
We've always tossed around the idea of including comics on KTV. Back in the day, we did a brief series with artist Ryan Thomas and it was a lot of fun. While we kept thinking about whether or not to incorporate comics in some way, we came across Colin Giles' pencil drawings. There are no words or multi-frame story lines here, but this balding, zombie-like, pants-less, buck-toothed...
The surf industry is growing and the surf lifestyle is getting ever-more glamorized. For die-hards, it's frustrating to watch lineups get crowded with people who's heart is only half-way in it. But what are we to do? If surfing is so great, shouldn't we be excited that more people are doing it? Here, Sean Tully, a lifelong surf coach, points out that waves are a finite resource and since...
Isolated landscapes and empty lineups are a surfer's paradise. But this place, a barren desert that falls into the ocean faster than you can say "surf's up," does not bring about that feeling of peace and calm that surrounds many famed surf spots. This is Northern Chile as Matt Rott experienced it. He's traveling with his partner and their time in Chile prompted him to question the role surfing...
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HOW TO PICK OUT KAYAKING GEAR: DIRTBAGGING 101Johnie Gall of Dirtbag Darling pulled together a quick breakdown of the three types of kayaks and various accessories that you really should have fully dialed before heading out into an ocean, river or lake.
Check it out here: http://korduroy.tv/blog/2013/how-to-pick-out-kayaking-gear-dirtbagging-101
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Name: Chris Noell
Location: Venica, CA
Quiver: L to R
In today's roundup, we check in with John John's recovery process and get introduced to a 16-year old skater who's already doing things that pretty much no one has done before. We've also got some goofy bodyboarders, the standard surf trip stories, a shaping shorty from Hawaii's North Shore, and a surprisingly candid discussion about air reverses with some of today's biggest names in surfing....
While Cy is well into his latest journey through the shores of Mexico, we thought we'd take this Throwback Thursday opportunity to take you back to another of his Mexicellent adventures. This is a three-parter, so stay a while.
Cy recently posted an interview with Alana Blanchard that we thought you'd want to check out. Listen to the interview on Regressing Forward here. "I first met [Alana] a couple years ago during a Reef shoot in San Diego," Cy says. "I’ve always been impressed with her ability to handle the pressures and expectations of being not only a good surfer but a sex-symbol/model as...