The Nosedrip Blogs

This may or may not go well
An entry from the Nosedrip Visual Archive documenting surf culture, locations, and artifacts. Either way it’s going to…
Laird Hamilton’s iconic ride
An entry from the Nosedrip Visual Archive documenting surf culture, locations, and artifacts. Chicama, from our Name That…
Name That Wave game
An entry from the Nosedrip Visual Archive documenting surf culture, locations, and artifacts. Nazare, from our Name That…
Best of Surf Awards Center
An entry from the Nosedrip Visual Archive documenting surf culture, locations, and artifacts. Gimmicks are so cool sometimes…
Ego is everything in surfing
More fun here: Science
If you were king
You could outlaw SUP.... survey
Who is the world’s most well known surfer?
Well, she pretty much owned movies and TV before everything splintered a thousand different ways, didn’t she? To…
Who is the world’s best surfer?
JJF, AI, KS, you can make that case too easily. Not sure why Slater never got a cool…
Was Point Break based on anything even logical?
Moments after this brilliant dialog was uttered by these award-eligible actors, they got in a fight and John…
Your surfing IQ is higher than your real IQ
As the inventors of the Surfing IQ Test, we were very, very, very generous in the scoring. Most…
John John Florence ripping J Bay
John John Florence ripping J Bay To see more of these and maybe find a hint, check out…
Eli Olson ripping Teahupo’o
Eli Olson ripping Teahupo’o To see more of these and maybe find a hint, check out our painfully…
Don’t Splash, Don’t Run, Don’t Look Delicious
Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth.…
Swell of the Amazons
Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth.…
Lineup Dispatches from the Storm Queen’s Reef
Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth.…
The Break Where Treasure Hunters and Surfers Both Die Empty-Handed
Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth.…
The Osprey, the Snake and the Surf Buddy
Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth.…
Barrels at the Edge of Forever
Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth.…
The Weirdest Surf Thing on the Internet
Junior Scientist Program Project: A study of surf related oddities (Vista Del Mar Elementary School, Grade 6) So…
The Use of Surfing to Subjugate Humanity
The Use of Surfing To Subjugate Humanity Steelcover — Full SitRep Edition 890 pages. First edition 1950 Publisher:…
The Surf Siren Attacks!
The Surf Siren Attacks! Paperback — 1957. Limited run. No retail distribution records found. No publishing numbers or…
This is how GPT pictures our monstrosity
This time around it missed the marketplace, and crossed signals on feature homes. But it did recall or…
And none say friendly or welcoming or surfy
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Surfing Earth’s Mythic Islands
   Surfing Earth’s Mythic Islands Hardcover — Full-color coffee table edition220 pages. First edition 1978. Rev edition 2019.…