Kirk Battles did it.. If you build it, they will come! Only, it’s not a corn field baseball diamond in his back yard, it’s a bar. Kirk built an addition around his infamous Monkey Bar, and threw a party to stock it. The “stock the bar party” was a perfect opportunity to show Lost Enterprises teaser for [...]
Last weekend Alex DePhillipo’s New Jersey surf Documentary, “Dark Fall” played a trailer at the largly hyped “pre”-premiere of poor specimens latest production “Modern Collective.” Showing right in the middle of a block of films including “Gum for My Boat” which takes an intimate look into the growth of the Bangladesh surf club, Red Bulls [...]
I came to Tahiti for one reason, Teahupoo. The slab left has beckoned to me ever since I first saw images of her in the early 1990’s. As a grom I saw shot after shot of my favorite surfers tame the wave of consequence, putting themselves in potentially life threatening situations for the love of [...]
Last week, I had a conversation with a woman about the surf lessons her daughter had taken with Ocean City local professional surfer, Matt Keenan, and how much her overall approach on each wave had improved. I started thinking about the summer ahead, and summers past, and how important it is to our surf scene [...]
Last week the National Surfing League (NSL) got together with Red Bull, for the third straight year, and ran their high school qualifying event for The Red Bull Riders Cup. Brad Gerlach and Shaun Burrell, two well known and accomplished professional surfers from southern CA, are the minds behind the NSL, and responsible for bringing [...]
Im Home! I just spent the last week in a mental whirlwind, of solitude, diners, truck-stops, energy drink, and 15 hours a day at 80+ mph. I took interstate 15, made a bet in Vegas, lost, and made my way north to the 70. Interstate 70 took me through Utah and Colorado where the drive amongst the mountainside and through canyons was [...]
Dark Fall is a project I’ve been working on with fim maker Alex DePhillipo. The film is a proper documentary of surf culture in NJ. Eastern Surf Magazine’s editor, Matt Pruit, has graced the project with words that portay the heart and soul behind all the hard work everyone involved has put fourth into this [...]
California has been home for a good part of my winter, I’ve been spending time with family out here. I’ve been between NJ and CA for a few years now, since I had my daughter, Rory Jaye. I love it out here for more reasons than one, obviously my family is at the top of [...]
Today we welcome aboard Andrew Gesler to the Surfers Candy family!
Andrew Gesler
