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...LONGBOARD...
...straight ride back to shore on a stable longboard makes pop-ups easy to practice Fins go on the feet, not on the board Advanced surfers look for responsive, lightweight boards to ride everyday surf TIME Graphic by Ed Gabel; text by Coco Masters Sources: Eric Arakawa; Chris Mauro; Salomon S-Core; Firewire Surfboards; Aviso; Fins Unlimited (Curtis Hesselgrave...
...tuition and practice have paid off. Michael Burling, now 21 and a medical student at Auckland University, is a four-time Oceania junior men's surfing champion, twice the Oceania open men's champion, and the current Oceania longboard champion. Steve and Sesika's 19-year-old daughter, 'Anau, has claimed similar honors, and the Tongan surfing team were overall winners at the 2003 South Pacific Games, stunning favorites Tahiti. "These victories raise the profile of Tonga," says tasanoc's Puloka, "especially in aquatic sports, which we're trying to get our kids into. Once they see Tongans...
Before the weather in Cambridge took its recent turn for the worse, sunburst twenty-somethings wearing seashell necklaces and Cali caps were a regular sight gliding down the sidewalk on enormous, wooden longboards. The bulky, awkward looking mode of transportation seems to have experienced a renaissance this summer comparable to the 2001 scooter boom. “A lot of people between age 18 and their late twenties longboard,” says Jay Neuwinger, employee at Blades, an all-purpose skate shop on JFK Street. “It’s mostly people who did skateboarding when they...
McLoskey himself oozes style, looking unexpectedly natural towing a longboard through the corridors of the Paine Music Building. Still, says McLoskey, “I stick out like an anomaly in academics.” It’s certainly true that not too many Harvard faculty members are known to use the phrase “Ollie away, bro!” Perhaps this is why McLoskey limits his talk of skateboarding when he is around colleagues. In fact, many of his fellow academics don’t even know about his three-year business venture...