Beach Trading Blog

Some of our staff members here at Beach Trading had a fun surf session this morning here in sunny Southern California but were complaining about the chilly 56 degree water – Well, that WAS until we came across this incredible blog chronicling a group of surfers who live and surf in Alaska!! You gotta check [...]

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Feel like you’re surfing barefoot in these awesome soft bottom surf booties! These neoprene booties fit like a sock because they don’t have hard soles or velcro straps. Our surfing booties are made out of 3mm Ultrastretch neoprene, Supratex (toe caps), and Tufftex (outter soles). These booties also have a solid toe so there’s no [...]

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Happy Holidays to all of our Beach Trading customers! We thought we’d take a moment to let you know that you still have plenty of time to shop for holiday gifts for those surfers and beach lovers in your lives.  We’ve got a great selection of fun and unique gifts that are also very affordable… [...]

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Yesterday 16 year old Carissa Moore, of Honolulu HI, became the youngest ever winner, (male or female), of a Vans Triple Crown Event in surfing winning the women’s division of the Reef Hawaiian Pro. Moore outsurfed an impressive field of female pros in clean 4-5′ surf at Haleiwa’s Ali’i Beach Park to grab the crown. [...]

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Just a reminder that tonight the Long Beach, CA Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation will host a special evening with Surfline Forecasters who will discuss the basics of wave formation, what swells and wind conditions are best for the surrounding area and can also certainly throw in some info on what the surf would be [...]

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With the buzz of a climatic final from the Boost Mobile Pro , (congrats Kelly Slater!), still fresh in the air, Rip Curl teamed up with the Surfrider Foundation to host a ‘Save Trestles’ Benefit that attracted hundreds to the Rip Curl San Clemente Surf Center this past Friday, September 19. With a major product-packed [...]

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Body Glove founder Bob Meistrell stepped forward last Friday to offer a $5,000 reward for information leading to the safe return of the George Freeth bust and the arrest and conviction of those responsible for stealing the icon from the Redondo Beach pier in Southern California. The bronze sculpture of Freeth, who is credited with [...]

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From the Surfrider Foundation: “Like Frankenstein, Upham Beach has been a bad experiment gone wrong. Armoring project after armoring project has failed, and now the state of Florida is seeking to undertake a beach fill effort along with the construction of a new rock jetty. The exposed Geotextile tubes are a danger to the public, [...]

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Ever needed a legitimate excuse to go surfing? Today you finally have it: International Surfing Day. Created by SURFING Magazine, this unofficial, official surfers’ holiday gives you a chance to promote and celebrate the sport while bringing awareness to the state of our oceans and beaches. The goal is simple: take the day, or at [...]

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Hawaii’s Cynthia Derosier is changing lives for troubled teens on the shores of Oahu one wave at a time. The freelance art director—with help from Hawaii Girls Court and in conjunction with her local Surfrider chapter—has started the Surfrider Spirit Sessions, a six-week program that is run by surfers and is, “aimed at showing troubled [...]

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