Author Archives: Tetsuhiko Endo

About: Tetsuhiko Endo

The Inertia Surf Editor

Tetsuhiko Endo is The Inertia's Surf Editor. Ted has never been to Hawai’i, surfs with a hunch, and can count the number of times he has pulled out of barrels. The only thing that qualifies him to write about surfing is that he grew up right next to the world headquarters of Hollister, in Columbus, Ohio. And his mind is slightly askew. That helps things along. He also writes for National Geographic, the New York Times, Popular Science, SURFER Magazine, The Surfer’s Path, Huck, and 3sesenta.

Every 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.

A Deleted Article and the Harmful Misrepresentation of Brazilian Surfers

Monday, May 20th, 2013

Every 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.

Fergal Smith and the Art of the Haiku

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

When we look back in ten or twenty years on this epoch of the 3-minute internet clip, Fergal Smith and his faithful will be remembered as the darkly poignant masters of the lot.

The Murder of Captain Cook at O-Why-ee. O-Em-Gee.

Survival of the Fittest: Five Stories of Living through the Unlivable

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

There is an illustrious list of surfers who have experienced some very bleak moments in the open ocean and lived to tell the tale. The following is a list of five of most harrowing in no particular order and judged only by me.

If, as Joel Tudor and his devotees proclaim, longboarding is returning to its stylistic roots, I applaud the efforts of all who made it possible. But it also got me thinking: Is it possible for a living and vibrant culture’s state of the art to be the emulation of two men who shone most brightly in the '70s? Isn't that kind of sad?

Joel Tudor and Reflections on the State of Longboarding

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Is it possible for a living and vibrant culture’s state of the art to be the emulation of two men who shone most brightly in the ’70s? Isn’t that kind of sad?

The Road To Ghost Cabins by Fred Pawle should be required reading for anyone who takes surfing as a culture seriously.

Review: The Road to Ghost Cabins by Fred Pawle

Saturday, March 30th, 2013

This book should be required reading for anyone who takes surfing as a culture seriously. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, it’s not meant to be.

Regulating the Mentawais

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

A working tourism industry in the area can be beneficial to all involved. There is a compromise that will benefit everyone. But it will be derailed if we, as a surfing community allow consumer apathy and/or industry greed to dictate our decisions.

Surfing’s “Rampant Drug Use” and Accountability

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

When Kelly Slater was quoted in an Australian newspaper yesterday saying that professional surfing has a recreational drug problem, you could almost hear the industry collectively catch its breath. But surfing does not have a drug problem; it has an accountability problem.