Written By Jamie Moran on January 10th, 2011
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…
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Written By Trevor Moran on January 1st, 2011
First off, it’s pronounced “Bay-Shun”.
People tend to get sentimental around the holidays. We look back on the past year and reflect on both the good and bad. Its human nature to remember the good times as being better than they really were, but in reality there are plenty instances where the good times really were that good. This was the case with a quick trip I took down to Barbados last month.
My brothers, Chris Kelly, and Zack Humphreys and myself all jumped on a flight to go catch a NW shot of swell, hoping we’d score the…
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Written By Brad Moran on December 30th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I realized I needed a tropical trip to prepare me for the long, brutal winter that approached rapidly. I finished all my finals, so I have a nice month long vacation. Although I prefer an uncrowned destination, some friends including Chris Kelly, Andrew Gesler, and Alex DePhillipo had rented a house in Hawaii, so I figured I’d head that way. Also, Jamie was out there, so it seemed like the only choice to avoid a solo mission somewhere. For those that don’t know, Hawaii in December is a mad scene in the surfing world. Pipe…
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Written By Jamie Moran on December 23rd, 2010
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,…
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Written By Jamie Moran on December 18th, 2010
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…
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Written By Rob Kelly on December 14th, 2010
My friends are back in town from college and I can’t surf with them this year. Swell was solid and I didn’t want to sit inside all day so I cruised up and worked the camera. Check out some footage of my crazy friends charging closeouts and getting hurt.
**Brian Liess had to get 4 staples in his head after that wipeout at the end.
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Written By Rob Kelly on December 2nd, 2010
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Written By Brad Moran on November 23rd, 2010
Sorry for the span of no posts, but start of school = less traveling and less time to post, so I’m also backlogged. Some of the surfers candy crew ventured down to the always interesting Virginia Beach this past August. See http://surferscandy.com/jamiemoran/2010/08/27/the-biggest-surf-party-ever-virginia-beach/
Whether it’s the awful surf (although it was surprisingly good this year), the 14 year olds running around, or the crazy amount of crap promotions (sometimes just spray painting kids) being handed out from the sponsors, Virginia Beach always creates memories for me. This year was no different.
Other than the surfing contest, the thing that stuck out…
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Written By Rob Kelly on November 23rd, 2010
not really..but im sure they looked something like this. Actually these can be considered the outtakes for Jordy’s new movie which comes out next year. He’s a super freak and pulled some crazy stuff out there, but for every rodeo there are a few donuts.
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Written By Jamie Moran on November 19th, 2010
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,…
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