Chris Ahrens
The gift of kneeboarding
That board will certainly offer me more joy than any gift I am likely to get this holiday season....
Fun boards
When someone calls a particular type of wave “fun,” I don’t quite get it. I mean, really, shouldn’t all waves be fun?...
The Spacewalk lives
Skateboarding's past and present connected at a Hall of Fame ceremony last week in Orange County....
My buddy Mike
I recently had breakfast with a group of surfers, most of whom I have known for over half a century...
The endless ride of Jay Adams
For all his success, he had some critical failures. He was deeply sorry for them and realized they all had their roots in drugs and...
Rolling on wheels of future past
Olympic skateboarder Bryce Wettstein, 18, is the latest “Making Waves” inductee at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside....
Surfing frozen water
We who live in Southern California are so blessed. We live in one of the few regions of the world where we can surf and...
Enjoy the ride
Grauer School's Surf PE instructor puts a high premium on the main reason any of us started surfing in the first place....
Stoked to work with young surfers again
Even if I can't teach anyone much about riding waves, maybe I can illustrate something about a timeless thing called stoke....
