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Vernie Montagna
We're here to share and perpetuate the Stoke and Aloha of the Hawaiian surfing lifestyle. To consistently create the highest quality surfboards, to build a team representing the essence of Hawaiian values & an authentic selection of product supported by exceptional customer service. And have fun with it!
Since February 26, 2006, SurfGuitar101.com has been the premier home on the web for friends and fans of the world-wide phenomenon known as surf music! Created in Southern California in the early 1960's, surf music is very much alive today and has spread around the globe. Join us in our forums to discuss surf music, past and present. Meet new friends and discover new bands. Want to play surf music? We have lots of forums devoted to playing, performing, and writing surf music. We have lots of discussions on gear: guitars, amps, and drums. Check out our podcasts and hear some really great tunes! Finally, we feature news and articles on the surf scene, and you'll always know where you can catch some live surf music!
We are proud to announce that we just received our latest vinyl record, It Came from the Chum Bucket. We will have it at all upcoming shows including SurfxSurfwest in a few weeks time. For those of the digital persuasion, please visit our Bandcamp page to download! Those coming out to the Daikaiju show tonight, we will have it as well! You can contact us through any of our social media pages, Bandcamp or email:
"New" live CD from Susan & The SurfTones coming soon. Our show at Klupfel, Nuremberg, Germany, February 13, 2001 was recorded and will be available on July 9th as a digital CD. We'll post a preview soon.
"SURF provides visibility and control for the modern enterprise. With safe browsing, DLP, and anti-phishing capabilities you significantly reduce the attack surface, and eliminate the human factor in so many different attacks."
SURF brings Zero-Trust principles to the user via the browser, protecting everyone and everything in the enterprise regardless of role. By configuring only a few policies, IT and security teams can significantly reduce the attack surface. Discover the benefits of utilizing SURF from an Information Technology perspective.
Advance cyber security, technical, and enterprise infrastructure with Zero-Trust principles and policies. Maximize user productivity across all applications and data on-premise and/or cloud, no matter where the workforce sits, without compromising business data. Enforce international privacy laws and deliver safe browsing by eliminating the opportunity to engage with malicious content.
Reduce the threat landscape and secure the workforce regardless of ever-changing applications, device, data ownership, and location. Protect against internal and external threats as well as all known cybercriminal vectors. Enforce compliance and data governance requirements - and get control of shadow IT.
Reduce the complexity and multiplicity of tools with the unified SURF platform. Minimize the volume of support tickets, incident response, and security alerts. Speed onboarding for applications, data, and access. Lower the need for patching requests for Shadow-IT.
The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) maintains a Surface Water Database (SURF) containing data from a wide variety of environmental monitoring studies designed to test for the presence or absence of pesticides in California surface waters. As part of DPR's effort to provide public access to pesticide information, this site provides access to data from DPR's Surface Water Database.
The recent update of SURF database was released in May 2024. This annual update included DPR monitoring studies conducted during 2022 and 2023 as well as the recent versions of pesticide data from CEDEN (California Water Resources Control Board), NWIS (USGS) and WQX (US EPA). All qualified pesticide data from CEDEN, NWIS (California sites), and WQX (California sites) that were available for download between August and November 2023 have been incorporated into SURF.
DPR encourages submission of surface water monitoring data from any organization that conducts studies designed to monitor for the presence of pesticides in California surface water. DPR accepts data submissions that fulfill the minimum requirements shown below. Data in electronic format (i.e., spreadsheet, txt, or csv format) require:
Kelly Slater Wave Co provides the ultimate surf setting, providing the highest levels of service and experiences. Kelly Slater Wave Co technology comes alive in partnership with the World Surf League, delivering unparalleled surf programs, training and events that share the stoke of surfing.
This next level technology produces the longest, open barrel, high performance, human-made wave in the world. Founded on a formal scientific investigation to recreate the best ocean waves, Kelly Slater Wave Systems are designed, constructed and maintained to the highest industry standard delivering reliability, safety and performance. This is the only wave system to earn the WSL Certified designation, meaning the waves are fit for WSL elite competition.
Surf Ranch is the first of its kind, an immersive surf lifestyle experience in the middle of farm fields in Central California (over 100 miles from the ocean). Surf Ranch is a bucket-list surf destination resort, offering epic waves, overnight lodging and farm to table cuisine, delivering lifelong memories for those who visit.
The first images of Kelly surfing the wave at Surf Ranch were shot on December 5, 2015. The video sent shock waves through the surfing community. The story began more than a decade earlier with Kelly Slater pulling together some of the brightest minds in fluid dynamics and committing to a formal scientific exploration into recreating the best ocean waves.
Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable for surfing are primarily found on ocean shores, but can also be found as standing waves in the open ocean, in lakes, in rivers in the form of a tidal bore, or in wave pools.
The term surfing refers to a person riding a wave using a board, regardless of the stance. There are several types of boards. The Moche of Peru would often surf on reed craft, while the native peoples of the Pacific surfed waves on alaia, paipo, and other such water craft. Ancient cultures often surfed on their belly and knees, while the modern-day definition of surfing most often refers to a surfer riding a wave standing on a surfboard; this is also referred to as stand-up surfing.
Another prominent form of surfing is body boarding, where a surfer rides the wave on a bodyboard, either lying on their belly, drop knee (one foot and one knee on the board), or sometimes even standing up on a body board. Other types of surfing include knee boarding, surf matting (riding inflatable mats) and using foils. Body surfing, in which the wave is caught and ridden using the surfer's own body rather than a board, is very common and is considered by some surfers to be the purest form of surfing. The closest form of body surfing using a board is a handboard which normally has one strap over it to fit on one hand. Surfers who body board, body surf, or handboard feel more drag as they move through the water than stand up surfers do. This holds body surfers into a more turbulent part of the wave (often completely submerged by whitewater). In contrast, surfers who instead ride a hydrofoil feel substantially less drag and may ride unbroken waves in the open ocean.
Three major subdivisions within stand-up surfing are stand-up paddling, long boarding and short boarding with several major differences including the board design and length, the riding style and the kind of wave that is ridden.
In tow-in surfing (most often, but not exclusively, associated with big wave surfing), a motorized water vehicle such as a personal watercraft, tows the surfer into the wave front, helping the surfer match a large wave's speed, which is generally a higher speed than a self-propelled surfer can produce. Surfing-related sports such as paddle boarding and sea kayaking that are self-propelled by hand paddles do not require waves, and other derivative sports such as kite surfing and windsurfing rely primarily on wind for power, yet all of these platforms may also be used to ride waves. Recently with the use of V-drive boats,[clarification needed] Wakesurfing, in which one surfs on the wake of a boat, has emerged.[citation needed] As of 2023, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized a 26.2 m (86 ft) wave ride by Sebastian Steudtner at Nazar, Portugal as the largest wave ever surfed.[1]
During the winter season in the northern hemisphere, the North Shore of Oahu, the third-largest island of Hawaii, is known for having some of the best waves in the world. Surfers from around the world flock to breaks like Backdoor, Waimea Bay, and Pipeline. However, there are still many popular surf spots around the world: Teahupo'o, located off the coast of Tahiti; Mavericks, California, United States; Cloudbreak, Tavarua Island, Fiji; Superbank, Gold Coast, Australia.[2]
In 2016 surfing was added by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as an Olympic sport to begin at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan.[3]The first gold medalists of the Tokyo 2020 surfing men and women's competitions were, respectively, the Brazilian talo Ferreira and the American from Hawaii, Carissa Moore.[4][5]
About three to five thousand years ago, cultures in ancient Peru fished in kayak-like watercraft (mochica) made of reeds that the fishermen surfed back to shore.[6][7] The Moche culture used the caballito de totora (little horse of totora), with archaeological evidence showing its use around 200 CE.[8] An early description of the Inca surfing in Callao was documented by Jesuit missionary Jos de Acosta in his 1590 publication Historia natural y moral de las Indias, writing:[9].mw-parser-output .templatequoteoverflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequoteciteline-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0
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