http://postsurf.com Unfiltered Thoughts on Surf Culture Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:24:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'll be honest here.  My limited wit is otherwise engaged today, trying to finish up the Power Rankings.  Writing for PostSurf doesn't pay the Vodka bills -  therefore it's rather low on my list of priorities.  So I'm posting an interview I did with Roy Powers way back during the ... http://postsurf.com/2009/03/16/powers-that-be/ I interviewed Bobby Martinez last fall in Mundaka, at one of the least-attended events in ASP history (not counting every Brazilian event, of course.)  I already posted the first part of this unused interview - here's the second part of our discussion, which centered on the apathy that swept through ... http://postsurf.com/2009/03/02/bobby-revisited/ The ASP season kicks off Saturday, so I thought I'd turn the hype-volume up a bit further by sharing a few words from our top contenders: Slater and Fanning.  The following quotes didn't make the QuikPro Peview I did for Surfline last week. [caption id="attachment_371" align="alignnone" width="477" caption="Kelly at Duranbah, 2006. ... http://postsurf.com/2009/02/26/a-word-from-our-contenders/ When I first started writing about surfing, I received this earnest advice from an editor: "Dumb down your prose - remember your readers are mostly 15-year-old boys, or they're as stupid as 15-year-old boys." Take a look at Transworld's new "10 Hottest Girls in Pro Surfing" feature.  The crew at TW ... http://postsurf.com/2009/02/24/datelines-tpredator/ It's a widely-acknowledged fact that Jews control the media. (Hey, don't worry, I can acknowledge this because I am half-Jewish. (Perhaps this is why I am only half-way to having control in the surf media. (And I hope I didn't just alienate my Meshugina Skinhead fan base by confirming ... http://postsurf.com/2009/02/23/do-jews-control-surfing/ Just finished a preview for Surfline of the QuikPro.  As usual, plenty of quotes don't make it into the final text. [caption id="attachment_322" align="alignnone" width="477" caption="Taj Burrow, Uluwatu. Photo: Chris Burkard /BurkardPhoto.com"][/caption] More than a couple guys in the 45 told me that Taj will be the one to challenge Kelly ... http://postsurf.com/2009/02/21/taj-has-a-plan/ A few days before Kelly won his 9th title, I interviewed Bobby Martinez.  I was hoping to put together an article on "Is Kelly's Dominance Good For Surfing?"  The article never came together - partly because most guys dodged the question.  But Bobby is his own man; he did not ... http://postsurf.com/2009/02/19/bobby-on-kelly/ Every now and then I'll try to post something vaguely journalistic from the cutting room floor. In 2008 I interviewed Kelly Slater for Water Magazine. Suffice to say, the year proved to be more successful for Slater than Water. The following conversation didn't make the final edit. Lewis Samuels: Style is one of ... http://postsurf.com/2009/02/17/slater-on-style/