By admin on February 2, 2012
February 11, Saturday, 10am-12pm
Location TBD. Looking to get involved in the Surfrider activities? This is a perfect place to learn about the chapter’s programs so that you can start helping us with public outreach! You can earn your community service hours too. Please RSVP to Robert at volunteer@lbsurfrider.org if you would like to attend. Light refreshments are provided.
Our focus this year is:
- to receive federal funding for the Long Beach Breakwater Feasibility Study (“Sink the Breakwater, Bring Back the Waves” campaign)
- to support the State Senate Bill 568, banning styrofoam carry-out containers from restaurants (“Rise Above Plastics”)
- to expand the Ocean Friendly Gardens program
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By admin on January 27, 2012
27 January, 2012 : – The race for the ASP Women’s World Junior Surfing Title has narrowed to just three contenders as the deciding event moves into the Quarter Final stage. In flood-effected but contestable 1.5 metre waves, Reunion Island’s Joanne Defay, Hawaiian Leila Hurst and Australian Philippa Anderson kept their hopes alive, each advancing…
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By rashie on January 23, 2012
If you stumbled across our online store or this blog and have no idea what a rash guard is you may be thinking, “how weird”, or “that’s disgusting!”.
Don’t worry… we’ll explain what a rash guard is and after reading what we have to say you just may even want one! 
Rash guards, (also known as surf shirts, swim shirts, rashies and other names I probably haven’t heard of), are thin, tight-fitting shirts made of a lycra/nylon blend.
They’re designed to provide rash, abrasion and UV protection in and around the water. They can vary in SPF rating but our rash guards are some of the highest rated shirts, providing SPF 150+, (UPF 50+), protection wet or dry – that’s higher than any sunscreen on the market today.
Rash guard shirts fit skin tight so they stay put in the water and surfers have been wearing them for decades to protect their skin from the harmful UV rays of the sun as well as from painful rashes that can develop from laying and rubbing on their surfboards.
With all the dangers of skin cancer that have been discovered over the years, rashguards are no longer only being worn only by surfers but they are becoming a staple in many families arsenal of UV protection.
Cheaper, easier to use and longer lasting than any sunscreen, they’re perfect for the entire family and are especially great for kids who hate sitting still for their sunscreen application or getting out of the water for their re-application.
More recently and with the popularity of MMA and grappling, rashguards are now worn for skin protection in almost all forms of martial arts.
So… now you know rash guards are not something weird or disgusting but something helpful and protective that you and your family may actually want to use.
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By admin on January 21, 2012
Currently, California legislators are addressing another prevalent form of plastic pollution – Polystyrene Food Containers – with a bill introduced by Senator Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach. This bill would prohibit a food vendor or restaurant, on or after January 1, 2013, from dispensing prepared food to a customer in a polystyrene foam container (aka Styrofoam™).
More information on SB 568 and progress
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By admin on January 21, 2012
21 January, 2012 : – Volcom team riders William Aliotti and Andy Criere scored great surf recently in the wintertime superbanks around Hossegor. While this stretch of coast is known as Autumn heaven, the surf does get epic during the cold months. In between raw storms coming in off the Atlantic, days like these will pop up. It’s enough to make you love winter…
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By admin on January 17, 2012
General Meeting
7-8:30 PM, Monday, February 6th, Long Beach Pizza Company, 3430 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA.
This meeting is free to the public.
The Long Beach Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation will hold a presentation about what Surfrider is and the ongoing efforts to Sink the Breakwater. This will be followed by a screening of the new movie “Know Your H2O,” about our water cycle.
For more information call 562-252-6173 or check out the Surfrider web page at www.lbsurfrider.org. For more on the location see http://longbeachpizza.com/
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By admin on January 15, 2012
14 January, 2012 : – Despite smaller conditions today at the Hainan Classic, the Final was an action-packed, wave-for-wave affair. Glenn ‘Micro’ Hall took control early with a long, excellent-scoring wave mid-way through the heat and held off Royden Bryson to be crowned the first-ever champion of the Hainan Classic.
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By admin on January 10, 2012
Recycle your packing foam from the holidays at the Aquarium of the Pacific on Jan. 14 from 9:30am — 4:00pm.
Check out Waste to Waves for more information on the event. We hope to see you there!
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By admin on January 9, 2012
9 January, 2012 : – The 2012 Championship Moves Surfing Festival was treated to epic 4 foot surf at Bells Beach today for the crowing of event champions across the Men’s Open and Pro Junior divisions. In stark contrast to the conditions at Jan Juc beach for the earlier rounds of the competition, today saw competitors doing battle at the world renowned Bells…
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By admin on January 3, 2012
2 January, 2012 : – There three more weeks to go until the 2012 Yallingup Surfilm Festival. A new film added to the Festival program – Thirty Thousand. Thirty Thousand is a surf film shot in and around the African continent. Directed by Richard James, the film documents the journey of two surfers who traveled 30,000km down the west coast of…
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By admin on December 28, 2011
27 December, 2011 : – Sean Collins, legendary surf forecaster and founder of surfline.com has died at the age of 59. The Orange County Coroner’s office confirmed Collins died of a heart attack Monday at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach. An announcement on surfline.com says Collins was playing tennis when he suffered the heart attack…
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By admin on December 22, 2011
21 December, 2011 : – - The slide show says it all… four fleeting minutes to condense a hell of a lot of heaven into something legal you could all swallow…and feel what it was like to run with the Panamaniacs back in the day. Most of us finally joined the human herd, which meant no more borrowing cop cars, or going to jail twice in one evening…..
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By admin on December 20, 2011
Not the kind of CPR you were expecting though. In an effort to reduce harmful runoff from the land, into the ocean The Surfrider Foundation designed a global program called Ocean Friendly Gardens. The Long Beach Chapter, with the assistance of Paul Herzog, OFG Program Coordinator, has transformed several gardens in the city based on the principals of CPR, Conservation, Permeability and Retention and here’s the latest evidence of what happened when volunteers, city officials and Surfrider worked together on Josh and Chelseas garden .
Did you know that urban runoff is often the primary source of ocean pollution? Did you know there are ways to combat this runoff and make our oceans healthy again? It’s one way you can make a difference so grab your friends and neighbors and start transforming YOUR neighborhood.
Breathing life back into our oceans and waves, one garden at a time!
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By admin on December 15, 2011
16 December, 2011 : – Epic Pipe event went down with Kieren Perrow taking the crown. How beautifully scripted was this event? Great surf and clutch performances at the world’s most famous wave. Everyone is still glowing long after the event is done because most of us are genuinely stoked for Kieren Perrow…
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By admin on December 10, 2011
On December 4th over thirty
Long Beach Surfrider volunteers gathered to celebrate their efforts to make their community a better place. Emiko Innes, Chairperson of the Chapter welcomed everyone with a slide show of the years activities and an inspirational clip from the recent TED conference which puncuated the importance of ‘movements’. Nancy Hastings, Southern California Field Organizer for the Surfrider Global said a few words of thanks after which awards were given, stories were shared and great food was enjoyed.
Huge thanks to
The Local Spot at Pacific Coast Highway and Loynes for hosting the event. They are a local family with a local eatery and it was a perfect example of the community coming together for a common cause….through local efforts great global movements are born. Please consider The Local Spot as your first stop for great food and don’t forget to tell them that Surfrider sent ya!
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By admin on December 9, 2011
9 December, 2011 : – In 1992, at the age of 20, Kelly Slater raised his first Pipe Masters trophy overhead in Hawaii and ended the year with his first ASP world surfing title. It came less than a month after the birth of John John Florence. Today, after being trounced in non-elimination round four by the 19-year-old, Slater tagged Florence…
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By admin on December 3, 2011
3 December, 2011 : – Isabela Souza in Open Women, Eduardo Rodríguez in Junior and Ardiel Jiménez in Drop-Knee today won the Gold Medals in the 2011 Sportzone ISA World Bodyboard Championship. The event is taking place in Galdar, Gran Canaria, Spain, and will come to an end tomorrow with the crowning of the Open Men and Team Champions…
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By admin on November 27, 2011
26 November, 2011 : – Axi Muniain and Pablo Garcia of the Basque Country have won North Canyon Tow In Trials and the $4000.00 first prize. The victory secures them a spot in the 2012 international big wave competition in Nazaré, the first competition of its kind in Portugal. The sponsors proudly awarded the surfers with a $10,000 purse…
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By admin on November 21, 2011
21 November, 2011 : – Trigg Point Boardriders have become the first Perth based team to win the WA Jim Beam Surftag Title in ten years. In chunky 1.5m wind swept waves the Trigg team (88.89) came from behind in the one hour final to finish ahead of Margaret River A (72.29), Margaret River B (62.35) and Geraldton (51.5).
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By admin on November 15, 2011
15 November, 2011 : – ASP International has released its 2012 World Tour schedule today, outlining the respective ASP World Title, ASP World Junior, ASP World Longboard, ASP Masters, ASP Prime and ASP Star tours for the year ahead…
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