Chas Smith’s pick for the Billabong XXL Ride of the Year.
Would you believe his decision is color-based?
XXL Awards: Baby, Take it Off!
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs / May 1, 2012
The Life of Bobby Vaughn, Part III
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs / March 23, 2012
You know those three letters on the nose of Bobby Martinez’s board? FTW? This is the man behind those letters. Story by Chas Smith.
Part three of three: Jail, freedom and New York City
The Life of Bobby Vaughn, Part II
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs / March 22, 2012
You know those three letters on the nose of Bobby Martinez’s board? FTW? This is the man behind those letters. Story by Chas Smith.
Part two of three: Belly up, Navy SEALs and murder # 2
The Life of Bobby Vaughn, Part I
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs / March 21, 2012
You know those three letters on the nose of Bobby Martinez’s board? FTW? This is the man behind those letters. Story by Chas Smith.
Part one of three: An orphan, murder # 1 and Tommy Lee
Travis Logie Hates Getting Barreled
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs / March 6, 2012
And so do Joel Parkinson, Owen Wright, Adriano de Souza, Bede Durbidge, Brett Simpson, Taylor Knox, Jadsen Andre, Kai Otton and Raoni Monteiro
The rest of the ASP though…huge fans of the tube
F–ken Heavy?
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs / January 31, 2012
Chas Smith: Is Jaws the oceanic version of Ronald Reagan?
A discussion of style and of substance
That WaveJet
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs / January 18, 2012
Chas Smith recalls a jet-propelled North Shore winter.
Headshakes, laughter and applause
Breaking Tents
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs / December 15, 2011
Chas Smith reflects on the Pipe Masters and his favorite competitors
“The whole of the Triple Crown was, in fact, amazing,” he says
Richie Vas, Surfing Warrior
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs / November 11, 2011
Richie kicked Chas Smith’s ass a few years back, living out the fantasy of so many Internet haters.
But Chas swears revenge
CEO of People’s Hearts
posted by Chas Smith / News / November 9, 2011
After a six year reign over professional surfing, Brodie Carr resigns.
The Greatest Surfer?
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs, Editorial / October 3, 2011
I spent the best part of Thursday evening chatting with Kelly Slater, and I couldn’t help but wonder
Is he the greatest sportsman of all time?
Expect the Best, Prepare For the Best
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs, Editorial / August 30, 2011
As Irene came and went in NYC, another sort of storm was brewing
Something Quik Pro this way comes
To The Parochial Outsiders
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs, Editorial / August 18, 2011
Reflecting Upon the Open
posted by Chas Smith / News / August 12, 2011
Feeling recovered and sitting in Portland, Oregon, where Peter Pans ride about on bicycles in the throes of perpetual youth, I can astutely assert that surf is it
Surf is the only thing that matters
Globe’s 0000 Premiere in Costa Mesa: Art!
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs, Editorial / August 4, 2011
Volcom Back to Fiji
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs, Editorial / July 25, 2011
The ASP: What’s Not to Love?
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs, Editorial / July 23, 2011
They do an amazing job wrangling many and varied un-wrangleable elements — like that flippant slut, Nature
And Kelly Slater
Another World Tour
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs, Editorial / July 18, 2011
Returning from a globe-trot, back to the warm waters of Cardiff by the Sea
In the Hamptons, Surfing
posted by Chas Smith / Blogs, Editorial / July 7, 2011
Summer and trendy Montauk surf aesthetes are totally in season
The cultural anthropologist’s dream
