Jack Mccoy and Isaiah Walker were featured in an article today in The New York Times. Photo: Tim McKenna
We’re always proud of our contributors. Unless they commit heinous crimes. At that point we re-evaluate, but luckily that hasn’t been an issue (yet). Instead, many of The Inertia’s contributors are doing fantastic work in their respective fields, and, better yet, they’re being recognized for it. In fact, Isaiah Walker (who just shared a piece this week about women in ancient Hawaiian surf lore) and Jack McCoy, were cited today in The New York Times in an article by Lawrence Downes entitled “Big Boards, Banana Stalks and Everyone in the Waves.” Downes writes:
Forget, for a moment, what you know about surfing: the professional sport, the multipurpose verb and online metaphor. Put aside the Beach Boys, the baggies, the huarache sandals, too. Surfing’s all that. But those bushy bushy blond hairdos have dark brown roots.
Two new books and a documentary film, all out this year, are reclaiming the story of surfing as Hawaiians once knew it. They are telling the neglected tale of one little world, on eight little islands — surfing before outsiders took it to California and far beyond.
Read the full piece on NYTimes.com, check out their work (Waves of Resistance and A Deeper Shade of Blue) and high-five Isaiah and Jack if you ever see ’em on the beach.
