Portugal’s Best Kept Secret: Land of the Serpents
Surfer/Photographer
A Worldwide Surf Trip: From Sri Lanka to Scotland
Surfer/Photographer
Portfolio: Robert Siliato
Photographer/Surfer
The French Washing Machine
Surfer/Writer
As I peer inside a curly-haired grubby-looking Frenchman (well, I assume he’s French) is squatting over the hole giving it What-For. We make eye contact, and as I mutter “désolé” his expression changes from “You asshole” to “Please, no!”
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Surf
First Love
Surfer/WriterWho we fall in love with is often inexplicable, and similarly, why I choose surfing defies explanation – but it has something to do with the dynamic environment, the way the sea feels alive. If you can ride the arching back of the salty precambrian creature, you know you have earned it.
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Surf
The Final Say: Billabong Rio Pro
Critic/Artist/WankerThe first time I crossed swords with Jordy Smith, he was drunk at a bar on the Gold Coast and demanding I buy him a drink. Let me take you from that bar all the way to Rio. Here, have a seat.
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Business & Media, Surf
A Deleted Article and the Harmful Misrepresentation of Brazilian Surfers
The Inertia Surf EditorEvery time a Brazilian is criticized for some arbitrary breach of hoary rules of conduct like being too demonstrative or competing too hard, I hear a single phrase: “You are playing our sport, and you will play it by our rules.” That has to change.
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Health
Full Body Surf Training
Surfer/Fitness & Health CoachWith these exercises, you will be able to react to turns, turn your head, spin your shoulders, and swing your lower body around to smash the lip and throw some gnar-spray, brah.
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Call of the Wild
5 Tips: A (Very) Amateur Guide to Spearfishing
The Inertia Associate EditorThere are certain things in life that one must do. Fall in love. Sleep in the sand. Sit in silence. Create things. There are many more, but one prominently perched near the very top of this list is spearfishing. You must catch your own food. Here are five tips on how to do it.
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