BREAKING WAVES
Every surfer is born in a breaking wave of amniotic fluid,
precisely the composition of this liquid ocean beauty.
The Surfers Party News
THESURFERSPARTY.COM
The Surfersparty is a new website created by surfers for surfers, worldwide. Our mission is to connect surfers to surfers; to support surfers in their quest to make a living; to empower surfers who promote clean water, clear access and a healthy ocean full of fish, wildlife and waves; to keep the beach party alive.
The vibe of the party will be a mind-enhancing cocktail of human invention: the Polynesian spirit of aloha, California stoke, Japanese zen, Aussie tribalism and mateship, Mexican and native American respect for manana, French joie de vivre, Brazilian carnaval, British humor, Swiss banking, African soul, the perfection of Indonesia, and the magic of all islands floating in mystery on liquid heaving majesty – that cool saltwater wonderland we call the sea.
We will bring the beauty of surfing, the oceans and surf culture to the internet through the visual arts, music and storytelling. We will gather the party for pleasure and profit. We will remind ourselves to shut down the computer, turn off the phone, and immerse in ocean wilderness.
Where do we go from here? Shaun Tomson flying.
Thesurfersparty is dedicated to the men and women responsible for the resurrection of surfing in the early 20th century, Waikiki beachboys like the Kahanamoku brothers; visitors they turned on to the thrills of surfing, like Jack London, Tom Blake and John Kelly; the next wave of hot pono’i surfers like George Downing, Rabbit Kekai, Conrad Cunha and Buffalo Kealana; the California surge at Windansea, San Onofre, Malibu, and Santa Cruz; the inspired Aussie chargers; design innovators like Blake, Simmons, Quigg, Curren, Brewer, Cabell, Greenough, Lis, Morey, Lopez, and Anderson; the great surfers who drove those innovations into the modern era, 21st century acrobatic test pilots, extreme athletes and every man woman and child who ever rode their first wave with an earsplitting grin and chose the surfing life.
Aloha Princess and Queen of Makaha, Rell Sunn
The surfers party honors those Hawai’ian women whose surfing first captivated the European imagination; the brave surfer girls who helped lift the muumuu curse in the mid twentieth century, like Janet Macpherson, the Calhoun sisters, Linda Benson, Gidget, Joyce Hoffman, Joey Hamasaki, Linda Merrill, Margo Godfrey, Jerico Poppler, Mary Ryan, Diane Brummett, the Leinhardts; Makaha surf Queen Rell Sunn – and the entire modern procession of women who surf. There is no surfers party without women!
The surfersparty salutes those marine biologists, ecologists, geologists, oceanographers, fishermen filmmakers, photographers, writers, musicians, artists, surfers, beach lovers, lawyers and businessmen who have taken upon their mighty shoulders the Herculean task of understanding, protecting, preserving and healing the oceans; keeping them clean and healthy with a full complement of surf spots, fish and other wild creatures. Men and women who educate and fight the thankless daily public battles and clandestine warparties against those clueless billions of humans who see and exploit the oceans and beachfront as one big ATM, sushi bar, garbage dump, sewer outfall, test-target, mine and superhighway.
The surfers party shall be a thin but unbroken line of local surfers, haunting every surf caressed shore, observing, reporting, enjoying and demanding a healthy, wave-wealthy ocean.
The Surfers Party will be a permanent registry of surfers worldwide, a surf culture library, a mailbox for surf contacts, a link to surfers by profession, and a place to express yourself in a network of surfers.