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THE WORLD’S RICHEST BUSBOY: A story that’ll make you want to call in sick to work… for a couple years.

THE WORLD’S RICHEST BUSBOY: A story that’ll make you want to call in sick to work… for a couple years.

Huntington Beach surfer, J.J. Brito, officially launched his literary career at the International Surfing Museum in H.B., on Saturday December 18, with the release of His book, The World’s Richest Busboy

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Surf Photos: Pilgrimage Northward…sometimes you just need to surf a point

Surf Photos: Pilgrimage Northward…sometimes you just need to surf a point

A couple of times a year, when the swell is working just right, I head north, to the places where the beer flows like wine, women flock like the salmon of Capistrano, and there is right-point after right-point.

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Surf Photos: Jeff Yusa showcases the South Bay

Surf Photos: Jeff Yusa showcases the South Bay

Already tired of seeing all of those peaky, hollow Orange County A-frames? Sick of hearing about how good it was in OC earlier this week? Well so are we (not really)…and so we got one of our favorite South Bay Photographers, Jeff Yusa, (who also runs the Liquidplayground Blog and yusaphoto.com), to send over some of his latest shots.

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To Eddie or not to Eddie?

To Eddie or not to Eddie?

The big-ass storm is still sitting off to the NW of Hawaii…but there are a lot of people chewing some fingernails tonight. It sounds like Quik is going to pull the trigger, but they are worried about a couple of things…the biggest of which is that while the NW Hawaii Buoy is showing 18-20 feet but the much closer to shore Waimea buoy is considerably smaller.

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Swell Anyone?

Swell Anyone?

The latest round of WNW-NW is hitting Southern California nicely…definitely a step up in size from the last couple of days. Check out the latest analysis chart from CDIP.

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TUESDAY SURF SHOTS: Some of the best 54th street I’ve ever seen

TUESDAY SURF SHOTS: Some of the best 54th street I’ve ever seen

The weather feels like summer, the typical onshore winds are taking a vacation from menacing us, and the swell is firing.  It was really tough to stand there, patiently photographing, while wave after wave filled in and shacked one surfer after another  (It was as if Mother Ocean was having a liquidation sale on barrels!). Surfers didn’t even [...]

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Watch and Wait Continues for Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, Big Waves Expected to Peak Thursday

Watch and Wait Continues for Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, Big Waves Expected to Peak Thursday

WAIMEA BAY, Oahu/HAWAII (Monday, January 17, 2011) – An extra large swell is forecast to batter Oahu’s North Shore this week, but uncertainty still surrounds the actual height of the waves that will materialize and whether this latest episode will give the green light to The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau, Fueled by Monster Energy.

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The Solspot family welcomes Simple Shoes.

The Solspot family welcomes Simple Shoes.

We are proud to announce Simple Shoes has become an advertiser on Solspot.

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Training Day: Robert Snow Photo Shoot at Typhoon Lagoon in Orlando, FL

Training Day: Robert Snow Photo Shoot at Typhoon Lagoon in Orlando, FL

With perfect weather, yet midget sized surf, any surfer may begin to get a little peeved. With unlimited resources, however, even during the longest of lulls surfers can score somethin’ to shred to pieces. Recently, Evan Geiselman, Kolohe Andino, and Cristobal De Col found a fine loop-hole in the fabric of the all-too-familiar “skunked week”… in an unlikely place.

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Swell Alert for Hawaii – Back to back storms look to light up the Islands with WNW swell

Swell Alert for Hawaii – Back to back storms look to light up the Islands with WNW swell

Soooooo if you have been looking at any of the long range charts or swell models you probably noticed the evil looking storm forming over the next week. Yeah the one that is about the size of the entire NW Pacific and is aiming a large, very intense portion of fetch right at Hawaii…that is the one I am talking about.

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