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Showing posts with label ocean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ocean. Show all posts
Friday, May 1, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
5-Year Old Surfing/Skating
I searched "Grom" and "surfing" on Youtube and got this. There's another cool video of a 3-year-old surfing here, but imbedding is disabled on that one... I can't wait for Levi to be old enough for me to take him out! Its kinda funny I get just as stoked off of the prospect of teaching my son to surf as I do about surfing myself!
Friday, March 27, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Sense of Smell
In light of how busy I've been at work and working on another project to be announced soon, I've been neglecting (sorry) this blog a bit. Some of you may have read this post on my pre-fatherhood blog, but I thought it was worthy content for DDD. Enjoy!
My senior year in high school I had a job at Holiday Inn working in the banquet service. I'd be there from right after school until sometimes three to four in the morning, watching drunk people do the macarena at weddings, corporate Christmas parties etc. I remember when I first started I was excited at the prospect of free food (loved food, still do!) from the surprisingly good kitchen. I commented on it my first day, and I've never forgotten what my supervisor said. Apparently, when you've worked in food service for a while, you actually get to the point where just the smell will satisfy you. Of course you still have to eat, but the additional temptation to eat more than needed just goes away after a short time. I found this to be true, and even there I didn't last long at that job, that always stuck with me for some reason.
Being a new father, moving, and working a sales job in the current economy, time to get out in the water has been more than scarce for the last several months. I was on the road to work early one morning this last week and decided to take the scenic route up PCH from Newport to Huntington Beach, for the sole purpose of seeing if the smell of the ocean would help me through this long dry spell. I have to preface this with the fact that I didn't spend much time actually looking at the surf, not so much because I was driving, but that when I'm out of the water for a long period of time I just get frustrated seeing waves I can't ride.
Back to the experiment. I drove, windows down, several miles up, PCH, breathing in the fresh ocean air. For a moment I thought it would actually help, and really in a way it did. Part of the meditative benefit of surfing I believe is the the smell and sense off the ocean, and I got that. The only problem is that it still made me want more. Some surfers want more than just their local break, which has driven surf travel and exploration for decades. Part of being a "surfer" was the search for the next great wave, almost a constant limbo of being satisfied yet still yearning for more, knowing there was something more out there to experience. That's how I felt only in a sad, almost pathetic lesser degree. I am actually at the point where just being able to see the ocean, sense it and breathe in its aroma, makes me feel like I've reached that much more of a connection. I'm far from content with being out of the water for so long, but that's the thing about surfing, no other past-time (I don't' like to call it a sport) is so holistic in its experience. Maybe I'll write on that later.
Photo by Ryan Tatar
Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Beach Day
Went to the beach with the family today to have a surf. They played on the beach while I played in the water. Its been a long while due to work and the new baby; felt great to be back in the water. I did find out the Levi does NOT like 55 degree water, dipped his toes in and he just about exploded! Maybe the Hawaiian part in his blood longs for the warm tropical waters of his native homeland...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
On Surfari - Mauritius
Shayne and Shannon travel to the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean to not only surf whats rumored to be the best point wave on the planet, but also to follow in the footsteps of Shayne's parents who traveled/lived there for a time while Shayne was a toddler.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
VW and Surfrider...
My day job is in sales at a Southern California VW store, so when I was browsing the Surfrider website I was surprised to see that they use the same ad agency as VW! I guess they can mesh, VW has the "Green car of the year" (Jetta clean diesel) and Surfrider is an environmental organization... I think I might be stretching it. Really I just thought the ads were great. Visit Surfrider.org, learn what you're swimming in and what you can do to help fix it.
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