JS: The Big Wave World Tour consists of 12 locals from each event location and 9 - 12 invitation - only top big
wave surfers in the world.
An avid snowboarder, you can find Laurent carving it up on the mountain during the winter or catching
waves surfing in the summer.
At key moments in his career, «I thought back to
that wave I surfed in Copacabana far more than I thought about the things I learned in college.
This beloved beach is popular with locals and visitors alike, and was an influential surf spot during the dawn of big
wave surfing in the 1950s.
Not exact matches
Within a year of launching Slack
in 2013, Butterfield was
surfing a frothy tidal
wave of interest, with the user base growing by a stunning 5.5 % per month.
Only a very small fraction, if any, of the source term will remain
in the air and / or «
surf» on the
wave that eventually strikes the shoreline.»
The lofty valuation comes
in part because companies like HootSuite,
surfing the social media
wave, have been getting acquired ravenously of late.
According to Gabriel's father, Fernando, his son became interested
in UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles, a few months ago after seeing YouTube postings of personal drone footage — everything from drones flying through fireworks displays and capturing aerial views of killer whales
in British Columbia's Johnson Strait to police activity on the streets of California and kids
surfing monster
waves in Newport Beach.
But while its now 41 stores
in 10 states will remain open through the restructuring, the trend
wave that made motocross and
surfing cool among the mainstream has long since ebbed.
During the 1960s, a semi-pro
surfer who spent endless summers chasing
waves picked up a hobby collecting cannabis seeds
in every country he visited.
I've always used the analogy that being
in business is like
surfing; you are never on solid ground, you have to move with agility, and be highly flexible and alert to catch the next
waves.
«
Surfers came from the states every winter
in the early»70s, bought an old car for $ 200 to $ 300, put their boards on top of it and traveled around for
waves,» Perez explains.
Surfing is an extreme water sport
in which the
wave rider, referred to as a «
surfer», rides on the forward face of a moving
wave which is usually carrying the
surfer towards the shore.
Anthony Tashnick was
surfing Pipeline
in Hawaii when the call went out to the world's best big -
wave surfers that the swells were up at Mavericks, and the contest was on.
He won Hawaii's international
surfing title three years ago at Makaha, Oahu's leeward beach, where a series of 20 - foot
waves may suddenly rise and thunder
in and as suddenly subside, so that a good rider on the last
wave can sometimes catch the rebounding back swell and ride back out to sea.
Keki occasionally may be found riding on his chest
in the steep, dumping
waves at Makapuu, the small windward beach where body
surfers must know how to angle left or right on the shoulder of the
wave to keep from gutting themselves on the rocks.
Through his years of teaching and experience as a professional
surfer, Richard developed the «Schmidt Guarantee», which guarantees that one will stand up and ride down the face of a
wave in their first lesson.
The record inevitably will include pictures of
surf,
waving palms, Diamond Head and dancing girls, and perhaps pictures of Mr. Tourist standing coyly among the girls, and inevitably pictures of Mrs. Tourist standing, stiff as a brandy decanter,
in front of Diamond Head.
Imagine a
surfer who
surfing in an 80 foot
wave there's such intensity
in that moment that if they're not present, if they're not grounded, if they're not connected to their surfboard, the
wave, the environment, how their mind is working
in that moment.
Cooper made made tracks
in the sand with his Monster Trucks and brought them a little too close to the water (RIP to the the two trucks who were washed out to sea), Kate never left the water where she jumped the incoming
waves and Lauren split her time between hunting for shells and and playing
in the
surf.
I'm just stand
in the middle of the
surf like a mother hen, counting her chicks every few moments to make sure they are all
in reach lest they get knocked over by a
wave or get distracted and chase a sea gull too far down the beach.
That wonderful smell was like a spell cast over me, it almost made me tell my husband that we should go for number three, well for a good five minutes until that feeling of being knocked over by a
wave and tossed around
in the
surf made me realize that I can't possibly have another baby.
New York (CNN)- New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, who began his campaign as a long - shot but
surfed a late
wave of momentum by tapping into liberal anxiety over the three - term administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, overwhelmed his opponents on Tuesday to finish first
in the city's Democratic mayoral primary.
Hermine twisted hundreds of miles offshore
in the Atlantic Ocean today, creating large
waves in some southern New England beach waters that lured
in surfers despite the rough
surf and rip currents that kept most beachgoers away on the last day of the long holiday weekend.
Mr. de Blasio, who
surfed through the primaries on a
wave of admiring press coverage, can seem rattled and resentful when he is attacked
in debates.
Right now Republicans are
in danger of being shut out of that general election thanks to Cox and state legislator Travis Allen splitting the GOP vote, even as Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom steadily leads the field and fellow Democrat and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
surfs a
wave of TV ads paid for by wealthy charter school supporters.
I know that it is
in the nature of journalism to always
surf whatever passing
wave comes along.And I know that lots of readers, like lots of writers, also prefer the warm bath of the familiar to the cold shock of the difficult and new.
Tempest Maguire loves living
in California and
surfing the killer
waves that the ocean provides.
Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent
waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to
surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean
waves, the researchers report today
in Nature.
A family camping
in Yosemite, a hunter tracking deer
in Michigan, a
surfer catching
waves in Rosarito — all of them have something
in common.
Professors Brymer and Schweitzer said extreme sports were leisure activities
in which a mismanaged mistake or accident could result
in death, such as BASE jumping, big
wave surfing and solo rope free climbing.
The grainy footage showed
surfers throwing dynamite
in a river and
surfing on the resulting
waves.
The trick is to use a high - powered laser pulse to create
waves in a plasma, which electrons can ride like
surfers.
But because it's difficult to set up measuring devices
in the
surf zone, as they did at Duck, the pair is now working on a way to measure
wave properties using a single offshore buoy.
And even if you don't have dark energy, there are regions of the universe that are moving away from us now faster than the speed of light and what happens when that's the case is they carry objects with them like a
surfer on a
wave and the light from those objects can not reach [us] so eventually the universe will disappear [from] before our eyes
in that sense.
Globs of decomposed fish flesh recently rose from deep
in the Salton Sea, coagulated into spheres on the lake surface and
surfed the
waves to shore, leaving the high - water line littered with thousands of sticky balls of fish
In inventing special relativity, Einstein imagined
surfing a light
wave; for general relativity, he envisioned walking off a roof.
In 1992, a retired NASA test pilot, Einar Enevoldson, founded the Perlan Project with the aim of creating a glider that could
surf these
waves up to the stratosphere.
I packed up and headed back to wintry Montreal — I still ask myself why I didn't wait until the snows had melted — with enough experience
in the IT field to prepare me to
surf the dot - com
wave.
Writer and
surfer Andy Martin visits the Keck Observatory
in Hawaii, the LIGO gravitational
wave observatory
in Washington, and Mount Wilson
in California
in his quest to understand the origin of the universe.
The Perlan 2 craft made its maiden flight last year
in Oregon, and
in March
surfed its first mountain
waves above the Sierra Nevada range
in California.
In his article on forecasting oceanic waves, Rick Lovett says that surfers don't know why waves come in groups of different sizes (27 June, p 46
In his article on forecasting oceanic
waves, Rick Lovett says that
surfers don't know why
waves come
in groups of different sizes (27 June, p 46
in groups of different sizes (27 June, p 46).
The 7,000
surfers hitting the
waves in 1950 became 872,000 by 2013.
BELLA has made progress
in demonstrating the rapid acceleration of electrons using separate stages of laser - based acceleration by forming and heating plasmas
in which a powerful
wave is created for electrons to «
surf» on.
Physicists still hope to
surf a passing gravitational
wave, which would amount to the first direct detection of these entities,
in contrast to the indirect effects seen by BICEP2 and Hulse and Taylor.
I've had dolphins
surf the
wave right beside me, sea lions surface near me, and pelicans dive for fish
in front of my board.
Surfers would be out
in the
waves all day, writers would be
in an inspiring space with pen and paper
in hand, and people into astrology would spend their nights and days gazing at far off locations
in the sky.
You wouldn't jump into 5 - foot
waves if you were too exhausted to swim, and you wouldn't float around with swimmies on,
in still water, if your body was craving the adventure and power of
surfing.
Kingsford calls this urge
surfing: «Urges come and go, like
waves coming to shore, and if you don't give
in to them, they will go back out just as easily,» she explains.
CR: I've heard you mentioned that tow -
in is fading and traditional paddle
surfing is now the popular means to riding big
waves.