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In this age of social media saturation, I often find myself pondering a question again and again: If you don’t post about a surf session on Instagram or Facebook, did it even happen?
Most long-time surfers understand the virtues of having a local craftsman shape a board that will work well in our conditions here on the Gulf Coast.
The Southern Spears Surf Shop team continued its dominating season and won the coveted Wes Ellsworth Team Ratings Champion Award during the TGSA’s state championships at Bob Hall Pier in Corpus Christi.
This interminable summer flat spell is stretching into another week, and for once, I’m not complaining about the lack of rideable waves.
With our summer flat spell hitting its fourth week, a surfer’s thought naturally turns to travel.
There’s nothing quite like a surfer’s first wave.
This is turning into a banner year for women’s surfing.
Hurricane Barry, which inundated much of Louisiana with rainfall last weekend, wasn’t much of a swell maker here in Galveston.
Contrary to what some might think, surfers don’t long for tropical weather to come our way.
Through the years, I’ve come to realize that there’s a clear line of thinking that separates the world’s most successful people from everyone else.
If you’ve surfed the upper Texas coast for any length of time, you’ve likely come to realize the online surf forecasting tools aren’t that much of a help when predicting the best times to surf in Galveston and Surfside.
Yesterday was the official first day of summer, but I think all upper coast surfers would be remiss if we didn’t pause for just a second to thank our lucky stars for the decent run of springtime surf that graced our shores this year.
If you’re reading this right now, there’s a good chance you bought or perused surfing-related print magazines at one point or another in your lifetime.
The last few weeks notwithstanding, surfing along the upper Texas coast is about to enter its dormant season.
Thanks to an early 1980s grassroots organization called Surf Galveston, city leaders and local surfers were able to convince the powers-that-be to establish one of the most liberal surfing ordinances of any of the developed beach cities in the United States, says longtime local waterman Peter Davis, who is also chief of the Galveston Island Beach Patrol.
Island surfers have been spoiled the last few weekends as decent-sized surf has been pulsing up and down Galveston beaches.
Last weekend was a great one for surfers all up and down the Texas coast.
It seems that some days you got it and other days you don’t. At least that’s true for me when it comes to catching waves and surfing well.
Surfing has always offered a time of reflection for me.
By all accounts, last year’s inaugural La Izquierda Surf and Music Festival was a raging success.
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