Much Respect from Cali

To everyone at FREESURF Magazine,
Congratulations on a beautiful publication. It’s challenging to put together something organic for the public that is also profitable and good for its community as well as its advertisers. The cover with Shane Dorian and the story about Sion (Milosky) are impressive and of course very heartbreaking (see volume 8, number 4).
I’m looking forward to reading more of your future publications. I picked this one up just blocks away from the skateboard spot we called the funnel, an embankment that coupled with the LA River at a great place called Bob’s Ooka Zuya. Please stop in and say hello to those folks when you’re in LA. Much respect.

Eric Baeseman

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Summertime blues and some downtime on the North Shore. I was just freaking out with no waves, so I went and shot some six-inch 
little nuggets on the sandbars. —Eric Baeseman

An Eclectic Crew Leaves behind Perfect Surf at Home to See What Lies Beyond the Horizon in the Marshall Islands

Photos and Words by Ben Thouard

Amid Hawaii’s peak season, with the islands’ northern shores ablaze with the ripest conditions of the year, an eclectic crew of surfers left the comforts of home behind to descend upon an unbridled touch of islands and atolls in the Pacific in hopes of finding a bit of solitude and discovery. The mission was simple: Travel south to the Marshall Islands, fill a boat with surfers riding every type of craft under the sun, and document it all for Oxbow’s upcoming film, Walls of Perception. Between uncovering hidden atolls, battling mahi mahi in the open ocean, and unmasking a handful of mouth-watering right-hand points, the crew succeeded in their mission and came away with the goods.

Ambassadors of Aloha

On an unusually overcast morning in June, Team Hawaii’s Head Coach Rainos Hayes wanders into the FREESURF Magazine office. He’s wearing his characteristic room-illuminating grin and is abuzz with energy. Having recently returned from the the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Games in Peru with a very respectable copper-medal finish, his team has once again made Hawaii proud. Although they may not have claimed a gold medal, they accomplished their mission in spades and Rainos is beaming 
with pride.