BREAKING SURF BARRIERS

Surfers in Santa Monica offer prayers of thanks to the spirits of surfers past and present. Photo: Karen Grigsby Bates/NPR

From NPR’s Morning Edition comes an interesting story about the Black Surfer’s Collective in Santa Monica, which “recently gathered to honor pioneer Nick Gabaldon, a legendary surfer who is remembered as the area’s first documented board man of African-American and Mexican heritag.” Gabaldon, they note, went to great lengths to surf Malibu in the ’40s and ’50’s—paddling twelve miles up coast to get to Surf Rider—and serves as an inspiration for many. Read the full story here.

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