One Beach Cast profiles

as part of One Beach, a series of short films that dive deeper into the lives of each cast member will be released in the coming weeks.  the first 3 are live along with the feature film here:

www.youtube.com/barefootwine

check back to learn more about Tim Silverwood and Surfrider.org CEO, Jim Moriarity soon.

one beach premiere

thanks to all for coming out or logging online to support our new environmental documentary short, One Beach.  Presented by Barefoot Wine, you can view the film and the first "deeper dive" mini-doc. via youtube.

click here:  Watch ONE BEACH 

or via:  www.onebeachthefilm.com

"the best way to curb the issue of beach plastics is to help educate and inspire those around us.  please share the message of this film with your friends and slowly, we can all make a difference.  thank you for watching."  - jb

one beach premieres live on facebook 9/20

we are off to new york to celebrate the premiere of our new documentary short film, One Beach. Presented by Barefoot Wine, this film takes a look at five people who, through creativity and optimism, have dedicated themselves to keeping our world's beaches "barefoot friendly".

i'm truly proud of this film's message and all the hard work from our team. a special thanks to sean o'brien, curt o'brien, my tireless d.p. scott kassenoff, the entire crew at woodshed / farm league productions as well as all our friends at barefoot wine and the surfrider foundation.

on tues. sept. 20th -

you can watch the film all day via facebook and at 3:30PST - you can join us LIVE via facebook simulcast for the premiere - including the film screening and a Q&A with cast and crew.

join us here

www.onebeachthefilm.com

see the new trailer here

one beach, venice mural

a hand made collage of marine debris just went up in Venice Beach to announce the premiere of our new documentary film, "one beach." the film, about beach plastic and marine debris, directed by jason baffa, is presented by barefoot wine in conjunction with the surfrider foundation

live premiere on facebook, sept. 20th. for more info, click here

or go to: www.onebeachthefilm.com

pleasure and pain surfing bali

3 weeks in, we continue to be amazed by the warm spirit of the indonesian people. from taxi drivers, restaurant owners to guys in the line-up, there is a unique love of life here in indonesia.

we spent a few days near uluwatu. the swell was pumping and i did my best to take on "impossibles" with my 9'2" single fin. truly a leg-burning left, i got some of the longest and fastest backs-side waves of my life. the photos are from our perch at Rock N Reef hotel, check it out if you want a VIP view of this stretch of reef.

Backside on a traditional single fin in this kind of surf is pretty tricky, but nothing about Tyler Surfboards is truly traditional. The double concave vee and knifey rails really worked well on the speed sections - the board took a fast, high line. As surfing goes, right when i started feeling a bit confident, i got caught up with my board in the white water and re-arranged my schnozola via board smack.

I've been meaning to get in and fix my deviated septum and i think i may have accomplished it minus the costly US medical bills. we'll see how it heals up.

looking to find a right that offers up a nose-ride section, so my nose, can ride a little more safely!

the hills of ubud, bali

i guess i'm on a roll of staying high above see level. that said, this spiritual, ubud region is truly rejuvenating. i arrived with my wife for her yoga retreat (she is teaching) with a sinus/ear infection from my body-surf session in rio and a pretty flared up lower-back from all my travels- that said, i've enjoyed 5 relaxing days in the hills. running, stretching, connecting with the locals- the balinese are truly a warm and generous people. i can feel my body getting stronger each day.

the one thing i've noticed, in what is a tourist region, is that the craftsmanship of the locals is unreal; sculpters, woodworkers, artists -- i am so impressed. i've tried to snap a few portraits of local faces along the way.

o a surf note: i did sneak down to echo beach near canggu for a surf - the tide was too low on the reef and the swell had dropped, so the bali-bobby-dazzler did not get wet but i did find a corner dumping onto a shallow sand-bar; so i grabbed the fins and body-surfed into my first bali shacks. i look forward to finding some more views in the near future.

via the Drifter surf shop in seminyak- i got word that chris del moro is nearby and i look forward to hooking up with a friendly face to take on some unfamiliar reef breaks. chris rides for bing and my old friend and long time shaper matt calvani makes his boards - so it will be pretty classic to have two haoles rolling around on tylers and bings in bali high. hana hou.

tyler's bali-bob-dazzler

i've been talking to tyler hatzikian for a while about creating a pulled in longboard gun that would be a bit scaled down from what he charges hammerland on. this conversation has evolved ever since the el nino winter of 2009 and finally, we found the right inspiration to get this vehicle made.

after my non-stop run of work travel i've happily booked a month long trip to bali with my wife who will be there teaching a yoga training. this is my first trip to bali and i knew i would need some pretty tuned equipment for the quality and level of surf i'm going to find myself in.

i hooked up with tyler earlier this summer and discussed the possibility of crafting a longboard-gun for the trip. zeke, the good friend he is, put aside his 80 hour-a-week work load, smiled, and said, "yah, we'll figure out a way to get you on that board." in zeke we trust... the mustache rides again.

i just stopped by the factory for a day- my head somewhere between South Africa, Rio, El Porto and Bali -- tyler pulled a gorgeous, 9'2" 60's inspired gun off the laminate rack. i can't tell you how exciting it is to see such a well crafted piece of equipment, custom made for a surf trip. most of my surf trips entail renting camera lenses, packing bags of gear, listing expensive equipment with customs -- this is the first trip to begin with picking up a hot-rod.

zeke has coined the new ride, the Bali-Bob-Dazzler - an off beat reference to a tee-shirt he bought years ago on a tube-riding jaunt through the region. i will check in periodically with up-dates, so that my good friend burning the mid-night oil to finish boards for friends, can mind-surf along with me. thanks zeke - let the adventure begin.

note: the bali-bob is the middle board with pale-green color. waiting finish sand and a fin - about 20hrs pre-flight to kuta.