Volume 4 Issue 5
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a. Belinda Bodysurfer b. Dirty Old Wedge with Tim Burnham c. The Art of Logo Design d. Wake Me Up if it’s a Dream e. 2016 NSLA Pipeline Bodysurfing Contest
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All Photos by Adam Kobayashi. Belinda Baggs or Bindy, as friends call her is a cerebral waverider. She studies swell charts and knows the channels and rip currents around her local surf spots. She takes pleasure in learning about the Ocean, how the energy moves and the water reacts. Belinda speaks of swimming along a…
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Dirty Old Wedge is a 62 minute documentary about Southern California’s own bodysurfing magnet wave. We sat down with Director/Producer, Tim Burnham to learn more about his film and his process in making it. How long have you been working on this project? It has been about four years. After I saw Come Hell or…
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By John Brodie Tire by tire, the truck spat dust at the sea as my dog and I whittle to a slow roll. I yank the handbrake. Bathtub lines stripe the side of the bluff above a creek shallow enough for a shin wash. I place my wetsuit on the driver side mirror while my…
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The North Shore Lifeguard Association ran the Pipeline Bodysurfing Contest in average surf this year. As always, the competitors were stoked to get the wave to themselves if only for a little while. This year’s champion is Kalani Brown. Kalani defeated a final full of guys who have multiple final appearances including Todd Sells, Chris…
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By Swell Lines Art Director, Skye Walker. Creating the original Swell Lines logo took some time. I came at it with a very literal sense of the name, corduroy rolling over the ocean, marching it’s way to the shores of our coast lines to give us the gift of riding waves. And after many revisions,…
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