Category: Surfers
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Professional Surfer Kai Lenny on Routine, Fear and Big Waves – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Unlike any other professional sport, surf competitions, especially big-wave surf competitions, require a literal perfect storm of conditions. Swell height and intervals, wind speed and direction, tidal shifts and weather—they all must align for a contest to be greenlit. Once the call goes out, the cadre of invitees and alternates from all over the […]
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] A pioneering surf photographer, renewable building materials, surreal nail art and more Transforming Renewable Grass Into Building Materials To innovate in the fight against climate change, the startup Plantd devised a method of turning a fast-growing perennial grass into a building material that is stronger, lighter and more moisture-resistant than traditional panels—while maintaining the […]
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1914 Book “The Surf Riders of Hawaii” Pioneered Sport Magazines + Photography – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Wildly influential though mostly unknown, A.R. Gurrey Jr was born in Kansas in 1874. By 1900, as a trained civil engineer, he relocated to Hawaii. There, he surfed, declined a role within his father’s insurance business, and began working to open and operate an art gallery. In 1914, he published at least one edition […]