Surf — Disrupt Surfing

Surfing art is refreshing, easy on the eye and a great past time. Here are three surfing artists who have made surfing art into a profession. Source: Scott Christensen Scott Christensen Surfing artist Scott Christensen started painting with oils on extended canvas in 1997 at 26 years old. After four years, Scott surrendered from his position driving a level penetrating truck to consider Visual Art full-time. Scott's significant other had quite recently brought forth their first kids, twins. As Scott reviews: "failure was not an option". From that point forward, he has sold more than 250 originals and more than 3,500...

There is something very special about surf photography and artwork. Here are three guys who are exceptional Surfboard Artists. Source: Lee Pegus  Lee Pegus Surfboard artists Lee Pegus is a surf photographer. Growing up and surfing at Sydney's Manly Beach, "Pego" got his first intravenous hit of saltwater at 10 years old, immaculately preparing him for the position of copyboy he took up a couple of years after in the sink-or-swim universe of publication at the Sydney Morning Herald. As anyone might expect, Lee swum. He brazenly wormed his way into the photographic office and learnt his exchange at the...

Surfboard Designer Known as the "Father of the Modern Longboard," and for his properly named "Magic" arrangement of surfboards, Steve Walden is a surfboard designer who eats, inhales and lives for surfing. Surfing benefits a lot of people, Walden is definitely one of them. In 1961, when Steve was 13 years of age, he moulded his first surfboard and never checked back. From that point forward, the California local has formed more than 25,000 surfboards and surfed in more than 200 challenges. By testing and outlining surfboards he cherishes to ride (surfboards that have additionally put him on the platform...

Phil Critchlow has been surfing for 50 years and has over 100 boards in his collection, but he still wants to find his first – an 11’ Balsa coated in barnacles, that washed up on a beach in Eden on the South Coast of NSW.   His dad came home with a Balsa from the early 50’s in the back of his ute, Critchlow was 11 at the time and he has been hooked ever since. According to Critchlow, his dad still says "it was the worse thing he ever did" By the mid 1960’s, board designs were undergoing major changes; they were getting lighter, shorter and wider. This period of innovative surfboard shapes and new experimental designs are a primary feat of his collection, “these were the ones I frothed on as...

The practice of proper surf etiquette is like an oath you take in court, you must also follow the law of the ocean. By not practicing proper surf etiquette beginners and even more experienced riders run the risk of injury and banishment from a local surf sports.   1. When one is on the inside give thy right of way. Simple, if someone is paddling onto the same wave as you and they are closest to the peak – it’s their wave, they have the priority. -But there is variations to this rule – if, at the last second, someone purposely paddles on the inside of you and scoops up the wave even though you are on the...

Here is a stat you may prefer to avoid – surfers are at the highest risk of shark attacks. Last year in Australia 63% of shark attack victims were surfers.With the Western Australian coastline facing the highest number of fatal shark attacks worldwide, eight in the past five years, new measures have been implemented to combat the rising fatalities. One controversial solution was the 2014 WA ‘shark cull’. From the beginning of summer 2014 to April 2014, a total of 172 sharks had reportedly been captured and shot. WA surfers and scientists have joined forces to explore a more humane solution. A collaboration between the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia and surfer-entrepreneurs Craig Anderson and Hamish Jolly from Shark Attack Mitigation Systems (SAMS), has led to a ‘shark friendly’ answer- a shark deterring wetsuit. They do not zap the sharks...