Written By Jamie Moran on February 21st, 2012 with
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Excuse me while I dust off my blog here. I’ve been neglectful to her and I know it, but like any good neglecting person I will promise to make it up to her. Instead of promising 3 scoops of ice cream or the most radical christmas gift of the year, I will make it up to you followers (are there any left?) by doing a “Photo a Day” feature, highlighting some things that inspire me during my month abroad in Australia and New Zealand. I hope this gets our reader/writer relationship back on track and I promise I won’t…
Written By Jamie Moran on August 14th, 2011 with
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This past Friday I participated in an epic 26.5 mile paddle around New York City to help raise money and awareness for the SEA (Surfer’s Environmental Alliance) and autism. The task of paddling a marathon around the world’s most populated city was a little daunting but I was pretty confident my arms could handle the trek so I signed up, raised over $1200 and gave it a go. The views were spectacular, the water quality was what you would expect seeing as how we would be paddling up the Hudson River then down the Harlem River and finally into…
Written By Jamie Moran on June 1st, 2011 with
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Recently I was reminded of the importance of patience and the role it plays in our lives. I’ve learned a lot about patience in my ordinary life and the values it has taught me hold true in my surfing life as well. Patience for swell. Patience for seasons. Patience for that wave that can turn your session around in an instant. And patience for the best set of the day. In the long run patience can be one of the greatest virtues around and has the potential to be amazingly rewarding. Unfortunately it also comes with a price –…
Written By Jamie Moran on April 12th, 2011 with
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Well, yesterday seemed like the official end of winter seeing as how the mercury almost hit 90 degrees in Philadelphia. It was certainly an interesting winter with tons of snow and fortunately tons of waves. Here’s a sequence from on my last “winter” session. Until next time, Old Man Winter!
Written By Jamie Moran on January 10th, 2011 with
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Damn, I love taking risks. My parents hate hearing about the risks my brothers and I sometimes take and have more or less looked the other way for the past couple of years knowing well and good there isn’t much they can do to stop us. While I’m no Travis Pastrana on a complete mission to kill myself, I’ll go on the record and admit I’m an adrenaline junky and will take any opportunity to “push it” whenever I can. Just yesterday I went paddle boarding for exercise and found myself scaling a pier and jumping off the end…
Written By Jamie Moran on December 23rd, 2010 with
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Well, I almost made it. Thirteen days into my fourteen day stay on the North Shore and I was still looking pretty for an “injury free” trip – well at least injuries that didn’t send me to a hospital or have me booking another visit with my good man, Dr. Chew. But that lucky thirteenth day had other plans. It was a gloomy, rainy day but Log Cabins was producing some serious barrels spitting so hard that they had us running for our boards and completely ignoring the hazardous reef just below the surface. Normally, it’s the ridiculously shallow,…
Written By Jamie Moran on December 18th, 2010 with
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December got too cold too quick for me. When I got an invite to come hang out at the Matix house on the North Shore of Hawaii it didn’t take me long to get online and book a ticket to escape the freezing weather in New Jersey. I arrived just as a two week long flat spell was ending and jumped right into firing surf. Fortunately and unfortunately, I also arrived the day the Pipe Masters holding period was starting. That meant the best days at Pipe and Backdoor would be off limits with the contest running. Luckily, I…
Written By Jamie Moran on November 19th, 2010 with
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Damn, I love the fall season. I love every cliche about this time of year – leaves changing colors, pumpkins, thanksgiving, and everything in between. And don’t forget the semi-cliches – shoobies back in Pennsylvania, no beach taggers, people resuming the normal speed limits in our beach towns, and of course the fall swell season. The past two weeks of storms and swell left most surfers glowing like Rudolph’s nose on Christmas Eve. Myself included.
I had the fortune and liberty of pulling several marathon sessions at home in Jersey, doing a couple road trips up to New England,…
Written By Jamie Moran on October 8th, 2010 with
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Some of our Surfers Candy crew has signed up with former Kansas City Chiefs player Dave Klemic for a tailor made boot camp designed for surfers. Andrew Gesler, Zack Humphreys, Ian Bloch, and myself have been going for the last two weeks and are definitely getting our sweat on. Dave has developed a program specifically for surfers that emphasizes explosive, fast, powerful motions that have your legs feeling like jelly when you walk out the door. Gesler admitted last week that he,”almost blacked out!” after our final drill of the day.
The program is on Tuesdays and Thursdays at…
Written By Jamie Moran on September 24th, 2010 with
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Back in the spring Heritage Surf and Sport took home the gold at the Regional Surf Shop Challenge with a talented team made up of myself, Zack Humphreys, Andrew Gesler, and Ian Bloch. Winning the event earned us an all expenses paid trip, which went down this week, to Huntington Beach, California to compete for the national title and $10,000. We went into the event very confident that we could take out the stacked field of competitors but mother nature had other plans for us, unfortunately. Long story short when it was our team’s turn to take to the…
