Eco Warrior

Obama Surfs

15 / 01 / 2009

Back in August, Barack Obama flew to Hawaii to visit his 85-year-old maternal grandmother at her apartment (where Obama lived throughout the 1970s) near the Punahou School, about a mile and a half mauka (towards the mountains) from the surf at Ala Moana harbor. Any number of great surfers cut their teeth on the hollow, [...]

Sanur Beach Clean Up

1 / 01 / 2009

The Role Foundation participated in the Sanur Beach Clean-up in collaboration with volunteers from the Art of Living.
The millions of tons of debris that finds its way into the world’s oceans each year has devastating affects on marine wildlife. Sea birds, turtles and marine mammals are tangled in discarded fishing line and thousands more ingest [...]

Surfing For Peace

9 / 12 / 2008

How the brotherhood of wave-riders is searching for a solution to one of the world’s most intractable confrontations – the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Words: Matthew Olsen
Surfing 4 Peace isn’t so much a state of being as a state of mind. Are we really going to solve the problems of the Middle East through surfing? No, maybe [...]

Busua Beach Surf Classic 2008

21 / 11 / 2008

Saturday 2nd November 2008 made history in Ghana with the first ever surfing contest held at Busua Beach in the Western Region of Ghana.
Words: Brett Davies
Photos: Kristin Menzel

This was my second trip to Ghana. After my first trip last Christmas I had fallen in love with this country for a number of reasons: surfing [...]

Surfing the Nations: Bangladesh 2008

10 / 11 / 2008

Words: Lisa Yamada
“Hello bondu,” I say, extending my hand for a handshake. Hello, friend. The man staring up at me sits cross-legged, his eyes are dark and beady, confused it seems and full of hurt. The skin on his face and body is bumpy and bulbs of skin dangle from his chest. He looks like [...]

Surfing From A Sinking Ship

4 / 11 / 2008

SHAPE-SHIFTING IN MAURITANIA
Words:Sam Bleakley
Photos: John Callahan/Tropicalpix.com
Surfing from a sinking ship

Mauritania is not the comfort zone that Morocco has become, but this is what brings us here.
Herman Melville said that no true place is ever on the map. I take this to mean that the soul of a place cannot be contained by the political boundary [...]

Junaidi: SurfAid’s Mascot in Katiet

28 / 10 / 2008

Words by: Kirk Willcox
Photos by: Kirk Willcox and Bob Barker/RovingEye.com

I can clearly remember the first time I met Junaidi; it was April 2007. He was a cheeky little unit, trying to hit my camera lens and basically jumping around as little kids do. I’d just taken some shots of him with Dr Dave Jenkins, [...]

Why Mess with Perfection?

4 / 08 / 2008

Words and photos by: Will Henry

My first trip to New Zealand, in 1987, was on the way back from an extended, debaucheryladen trip through Australia. I had been in West Oz, in Fremantle during the America’s Cup, and was witness to a victoriously chubby Dennis Conner becoming an American hero, bringing the cup back to [...]

Eco-Warriors in New Zealand

1 / 08 / 2008

The Surfer’s Path’s favorite eco-warrior team heads to New Zealand to drop in on a few waves… and Parliament.
Words by: James Pribram
Photgraphy by: Will Henry

Every surfer has a dream. At first it’s just being able to catch a wave and ride it competently. Later, it may lead to other dreams – like becoming a professional [...]

One Battle Is Won

12 / 07 / 2008

By Nicolas Recordon

Our pristine Chilean ocean is in danger due to an archaic, egotistical, and underdeveloped environmental norm forced on its citizens by an entrenched political machine. The government bureaucrats of Chile see the ocean as a bottomless receptor of industrial waste, and the local mining, forestry, and manufacturing industries take advantage of this national [...]