Stoked Mentoring at the beach

The Stoked mission is all about empowering youth from the inner city and under served communities using action sports. What better place to experience action sports when Stoked brought the kids to the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach. With everything happening in one place the kids got an opportunity to try their hand at surfing as well as learn the art of taking action sports pictures from one of the more respected photographers in the industry Bo Bridges. The smiles coming from the kids were larger than the actual festival. Seeing that really helps you understand what this program is all about.

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"Record" for Largest Wave Ever Ridden Trivializes Big-Wave Surfing

A return to old-school measuring techniques is in order

Consider two representations of two very big waves, below. The first is a photograph of Mike Parsons at Cortes Bank. The second is a video of Garrett McNamara near Nazare, Portugal. Now take out some measuring tape and make the distance of one foot between your hands. That's the amount, according to the Billabong XXL committee, that McNamara's wave is bigger than Parsons's wave.