He's been kidnapped by the KGB, started Surfrider Foundation, National Surfing Reserves, and World Surfing Reserves too, but Brad Farmer's advocacy is based on more than mere love for the ocean.
In 2013 FCS released FCS II, a new and updated version of their removable fin system. Yet three years later they still don't have the patent secured and the imitators are ready to pounce.
The Olympics will divide surfing more than any other issue. What chance is there that surfers will get citius, altius, fortius - faster, higher, stronger - in summertime beachbreaks?
Never mind surfing in the Olympics, an inland CT event, or even the online backlash, last week's wavepool sale will have a side effect not yet considered – the potential to bankroll the whole WSL.
The network of ocean buoys are proving problematic for detecting tsunami but fortunately scientists have stumbled across better technology - big ships.
They're weather systems, but not as we know them. And to think about surfing in such an event - an event expressed in detail by James Hansen and outlined by blindboy - is "an almost obscene waste of effort."
