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Registration is now open We are so excited to get the “They Will Surf Again” season started Saturday June 1, in Santa Monica. Please come join us for this very inspiring event. Bring your family and friends to come cheer on people with various disabilities as they surf the waves.

Life Rolls On Athete and Volunteer Sign Up
Yo Venice got the update on the Surfer Found Dead At Topanga story from last December.

According to the autopsy report by the Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner , while the cause of death was drowning, a cardiac event precipitated the pulmonary edema. Specifically, Damon Michael Geller had three major arteries of his heart that were blocked, 50, 75 and 80 percent respectively
Surfer Damon Michael Geller


Yo Venice got the update on the Surfer Found Dead At Topanga story from last December.

According to the autopsy report by the Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner , while the cause of death was drowning, a cardiac event precipitated the pulmonary edema. Specifically, Damon Michael Geller had three major arteries of his heart that were blocked, 50, 75 and 80 percent respectively.

You can read the full story here: Death of Local Surfer Wake-Up Call - Yo Venice
WNW Swell and SSW Swell Combo


New SSW swell trends up through middle/late week, modest NW swell continues.

The recent storm system passes by mostly to the north of us on Tuesday; bringing a slight chance for showers followed by breezy onshore W winds in the afternoon. Light+ onshore S/SW winds prevail in the early morning (strongest through OC/SD). Winds trend onshore from the SW/W by the late morning.

Wednesday, April 17th: 3-4'+ at Southern Hemi standouts in OC, otherwise 2-3'. Light S/SE wind in AM hours, WSW wind in PM. Modest to fun-zone new SSW swell (200-180) will build further Wednesday as mid-period NW swell-mix holds. That provides surf around waist high at the well exposed breaks (Ventura, North LA, select parts of South Bay, parts of OC and SD), while standouts get up to chest high on sets. Southern Hemi focal points will pull in shoulder high sets during favorable tides.

Winds slowly improve for many spots with a light S/SE wind in the morning. SB/Ven/LA should be fairly clean. Winds trend SW-West through the day, topping out at light+/moderate levels.

On May 1st, Pizzanista! celebrating the re-launching of the new updated and expanded edition of The DogTown Book - The Legend of The Z-Boys. Special guests will include Jeff Ho, Tony Alva, Jim Miur, and more... Special limited edition Dogtown artwork pizza boxes will be available as well.


The Pizzanista!
DOWNTOWN LA
2019 E. 7th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021
TEL: (213) 627-1430


Such a fun day - bring all your girlfriends because the girls are taking over Venice Skatepark on April 27th! It's the 4th annual Venice Ladies Jam. Tons of prizes and medals. Divisions for all ages.

Just learning to skateboard? Come on out - the "Pup Cup" is just right for you if you are 8 yrs and under!

It will be a full day of fun on the beach in Venice - we hope to see you there!!

SATURDAY, APRIL 27th
VENICE
REGISTRATION STARTS AT 9:30 AM

PUP CUP at 10:30 AM
9-14 yrs old - 11:15 AM
15-24 yrs old - 12:00 PM
25-34 yrs old - 1:00 PM
35+ MASTERS - 2:00 PM


And the GRAND PRIZE is 1 week at the beautiful Sequoia Skate Camp!!! Some age restrictions apply, winner will be decided by 2016 Skateboard Hall of Fame inductee, Cindy Whitehead, and new 2019 inductee, Skateboard Hall of Fame ICON Gale Webb!
Mark your calendars for some serious 80’s action! Free Boardriders Malibu
Swag, complimentary pizza and beer, and an epic film..? Who wants to party?

Boardriders Malibu
18820 Pacific Coast Hwy
Malibu, Ca 80265
310 - 359 - 8274


The Bay Street Boards shop video premiere is finally here 4/20 🔥🏁 Come thru Saturday afternoon for the premiere party 🎈🎉 There will be food drinks and all types of fun!!!

Bay Street Boards
🌴☀️Santa Monica ☀️🌴
Surf & Skate Shop
3216 Santa Monica Blvd
310.310.2485
Mon-Fri 10a-8p Sat 10a-7p Sun 10a-5p


Peter Ruiz and his Venice Pier Project have hooked up with Heal The Bay to host a beach clean up at the Venice Pier on Sunday from 9AM till Noon. There will be snacks and refreshments. You can CLICK HERE for more info.

If you're at the Venice Pier when this is going on, head over to the clean up tent and spend at least a few minutes giving them a hand. Show Peter and his crew that the work they do trying to keep the pier clean is appreciated. And it's his birthday on Sunday, wish him a Happy Birthday. If you don't know who he is, he's the dude in the bright yellow VPP safety vest that's always smiling.




Conditions fall apart along Northern and Southern California through the middle of the week as strong high pressure camps off the coast. Fresh NW windswell and fun rounds of SSW swells show at many exposures but pesky NW winds will result in mostly low quality surf (albeit a few good windows around select regions). The good news: Improving conditions look likely for the upcoming weekend with more Southern Hemi swell on deck.


"My friend Will Milner got sliced by a surfboard out at 1st point." Jim Brown describing what happened, "The woman that cut him was surfing recklessly, dropping in on people and had no surf educate. Due to her lack of ability she should of had a leash on her board but didn’t. She never even offered an apology to Will. He is healing up after getting 20 staples at the emergency room."
Will Milner's story on how he got sliced up at Malibu:

"I was enjoying a small early south swell pulse two Sundays ago at the Bu. The lineup was kind of jammed, first sign of summer… the surf was inconsequential, waist maybe chest, good but no big deal. Anyway, I had been noticing this girl burning people most of the morning… not to mention incessantly running to the nose… I had avoided her pretty much until she lost her board. This all happened really quickly… The girl once again burning a dude on a a set wave, she ran to the nose, arched her back, her board got hung up and tossed with the momentum of the breaking wave, tail first.

I attempted to roll to avoid it hitting my head, but the tail/fin slammed and snagged my whole right side… her board, the dude’s board and my board to the beach… I knew I had been basically stabbed, I could feel cold water in the wound… Swimming in I told the girl her board slammed me and it’s not good… she started crying… on the beach, more of the same.
Holding her stomach and crying. I didn’t see her get hit, but I don't know. I kind of scolded her for a minute and she yelled to me and her boyfriend sitting next to her, “Fuck that guy, I hate him” and ran away to the parking lot crying.

So I asked the boyfriend where they were from, didn’t get too much info… needing to take care of my wound, the lifeguard, Carter, super cool and nice, helped me out, I couldn’t see the gash, he looked surprised maybe shocked, , so I knew it was probably bad… he offered to call an ambulance.

Fortunately my girlfriend was with me… and drove me to the emerge(sic) care in Malibu… they wouldn’t see me because my insurance company website was down, drove to the one in Calabasas, two-hour wait. I insisted that the nurse at least check it out… she obliged and said it was bad and maybe the muscle is torn and sent us to the ER in West Hills… 20 staples.

I don’t know the protocol on this, but if I had lost my board and wounded someone, I definitely would offer to help etc.. the girl was a brat.

Maybe her ego was bruised, embarrassed? And didn’t want to admit she was wrong?"



Photos by Jim Brown .

Want to work at the Surf Ranch? Lifeguards, servers, hosts, and more jobs are opening up for the upcoming season at the Kelly Slater Surf Ranch. Here's links to the jobs the WSL has listed, you can apply using the form in the links.

Director of Surf - Full Time
The Director of Surf is responsible for the guest experience related to surf and wave basin operations at Surf Ranch. This includes management of the Surf Team and Lifeguard staff. The Director of Surf will report directly the General Manager.

Hospitality Servers - Seasonal
Hospitality Servers ensure guests are comfortable and provide food and beverage service. They ensure the ranch house service is at a quality at all times while preserving a level of guest privacy. Hospitality Servers complete all cleaning and preparation to ensure a smooth service at all times.

Surf Guides - Seasonal
Surf Guides play an integral role in guest safety and guest experience both in and out of the water at Surf Ranch. Under the direct supervision of the Surf Ranch Client Service Manager, Surf Guides perform various duties at the Surf Ranch facility. This includes, but is not limited to, facilitating guest surfing, enforcing rules, and providing quality guest service. The Surf Guide will work directly with guests to provide them with the best possible surfing experience during their time at Surf Ranch. The Surf Guide must have a thorough understanding of all ‘wave system’ operations including a working knowledge of the Surf Ranch Wave, as well as lifeguard duties as they pertain to emergency communication and response.

Lifeguards - Seasonal
Lifeguards plays a strong role in keeping Surf Ranch guests safe. Under the direct supervision of the Surf Ranch General Manager, Lifeguards will be responsible for Surf Ranch water safety and medical aid when incidents occur. Lifeguards will make water related decisions with the utmost regard for Surf Ranch employees and its guests. Lifeguards must have and expert level understanding of all wave system operations as well as the ability to direct others and manage others in a team and group setting. Lifeguards will direct all Surf Coaches and guests when any medical or water related emergency occurs.

Facilities Technicians (Grounds Crew) - Seasonal
We are currently seeking Seasonal Facilities Technicians to work at our Leemore, CA, Surf Ranch location during the 2019 Season, April through to October, 2019. The Facilities at Surf Ranch must be maintained and kept in flawless order at all times. Under the direct supervision of the Surf Ranch Facilities Manager, the Facilities Technicians will be responsible for the overall upkeep and maintenance of Surf Ranch facilities. These positions will keep the facilities clean, stocked and sanitized at all locations of Surf Ranch. This position must have a thorough understanding of all facilities which require maintenance and an understanding of the Surf Ranch guest schedule is required so that facilities are maintained with minimal guest disturbance.

Facilities Technician (Grounds Crew) - Full Time
The Facilities at Surf Ranch must be maintained and kept in flawless order at all times. Under the direct supervision of the Surf Ranch Site Operations Manager and the Facilities Supervisor, the Full Time Facilities Technician will be responsible for the overall upkeep and maintenance of Surf Ranch facilities. This position will keep the facilities clean, stocked and sanitized at all locations of Surf Ranch. This position must have a thorough understanding of all facilities which require maintenance and an understanding of the Surf Ranch guest schedule is required so that facilities are maintained with minimal guest disturbance.


By Sam Catanzaro .

From San Diego and Los Angeles to Santa Barbara and San Francisco, major cities are commonplace along much of California’s coast. Amid the hustle and bustle of these metropolises, it is easy to forget the nature that exists in many residents’ backyards. Last week in Malibu, however, residents and beach goers got a visual and olfactory reminder of their proximity to wildlife when a young dead gray whale washed ashore at County Line Beach, greeting beach goers with the smell of decaying flesh.

“It smelled foul,” Cole Miller, a local actor who was surfing nearby, told the Santa Monica Mirror. “I had never seen a whale that close before, so I was in awe of how large it was compared to me. Other people poked at it, but I didn’t want to. There was dried, dirty blood oozing from its eyes and mouth. It was pretty gross, but amazing to see a creature like that right in front of me.”

Authorities believe the carcass washed ashore around 3 a.m. Sunday, March 24. According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP), the whale is about 40-feet long, the size of a semi-truck. There are several gashes on the whale’s side, though it is still unclear how the whale died. More details will become available after Diane Alps, President of the Channel Island Marine and Wildlife Institute and her colleagues release information from a necropsy performed March 25. According to the CHP, authorities do not plan on removing the carcass of the whale and will instead let nature take its course and carry the body out to sea.

While experts were performing the necropsy on the 40-foot long mammal, rescue crews just up the coast in Oxnard spent Monday attempting to rescue another gray whale trapped in a buoy net near Channel Island Harbour. Spotted by passengers on a boat Sunday, responders Monday and Tuesday had a difficult time untangling the whale, which is around 20-feet long, due to the animal’s skittishness.

“Every time we tried to get close to it, the whale would get scared and dive underwater, taking the buoy with it,” Mark Barney, a spokesperson for the United States Coast Guard (USCG), told the Los Angeles Times.

According to Barney, because the whale kept swimming away, authorities have been unable to tell if the whale is injured, distressed or to what degree the animal is entangled. To help with the rescue, the USCG called in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for assistance.

Read more of this story at The Santa Monica Mirror

A Walk On Water (“AWOW”) will be having thier Surf Therapy event at Surfrider Beach on April 20th. For more info and to volunteer: Click Here

More info at Mightyunderdogs.org.


Join THERAsurf on Saturday April 27th at 1st Point, Malibu to kick off 2019 the only way we know...some surfing, relaxing, and hanging with friends. Visit THERAsurf.org to sign up for an amazing surf day.

This Saturday there will be a beach clean at the Venice Pier from 10:00am - 1:00pm on the north side. Then there's a post clean up Happy Hour at Arbor Venice from 1:30pm - 4:00pm.

Arbor Venice
102 Washington Blvd
Venice, CA 90292

For more details: Click Here

Beginning on March 28th Relik will begin accepting video clips from around the globe from which 16 surfers will be chosen as potential competitors. These lucky longboarders will then have their video clips posted online and voted on by the wider surf world, with the even luckier (and talented) top eight place-getters slotted into Round 1 of both the Malibu and Lowers events.

You read that right. Anyone who wants to can submit a clip. Anyone who wants to can vote on their favorite surfer. And that surfer is going to get a shot not only at competing for a slice of the Relik Tour’s record $200,000 purse (first-place prize money upped to $15,000 this year) but a chance to surf Malibu and Lowers with only three other surfers out. Which means that for the first time ever…it could be you.

And two of last season’s winners, Chad Marshall at Malibu and Lindsay Steinriede at Lowers, were both unseeded competitors who came up through an open qualifier round to eventually heft that hefty first-place check at the top of the podium. After surfing round after round of perfect, empty waves. A dream on top of a dream.

To submit your Open Qualifier video clip go to surfrelik.com for easy to follow submission guidelines. And do it now: entries close on April 14.
SurfAid has added Kelly Slater's Surf Ranch to their line -up of events this year. And you are invited to surf in it.

Here's their press release:



There’s been many amazing firsts at SurfAid - from being founded by the first doctor to set foot in the Mentawai, to the first organization in Indonesia to introduce solar powered drip irrigation to combat malnutrition, to the first time SurfAid reported zero lives lost in our program in Nias.

Now SurfAid is partnering with the Kelly Slater Wave Co. for an entirely different kind of first. On Friday, June 21, the Surf Ranch will be opening its doors for the first ever SurfAid Cup to be held in a wave pool in Lemoore, California.

Yes, we’re talking about that ranch, where miles away from the nearest ocean sits “The Wave.” A 6-foot barreling wave that travels over 2300 feet yielding up to 50 second rides that can be controlled to allow a wave riding experience for surfers of all skill levels. Join us and be among one of the select few given the chance to surf the first wave of its kind, the best man-made wave in the world.

In partnership with WSL and Firewire Surfboards, this surf for SurfAid charity day gives you exclusive access to the world-famous Surf Ranch and the chance to turn your day of surfing into a day of saving lives. 100% of event proceeds will support SurfAid’s Mother and Child Health Programs.


As with all SurfAid Cup events, competitors will be encouraged to fundraise as part of the event efforts. The last surf session of the day will be a bonus session only accessible to the top 6 fundraisers.

Limited space is available, registration will be secured on a first come, first serve basis. Contact Erin@SurfAid.org to be added to the guest list.

Kevin Jansen's new movie “Please Have Fun” will be premiering this Friday at Mollusk Venice Surf Shop . Film and tunes happening from 7-10! Come on by and enjoy some epic surfing along the coast of California and Portugal

Mollusk Venice Surf Shop
1600 Pacific Avenue
Venice Beach, CA 90291-9998
(310) 396-1969
Store Hours:
Mon to Sun 10am to 6:30pm