by Robert August | May 1, 2021 | August Odysseys
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Surf Expo has always been one of my favorite events of the year, to meet people and check out the newest products in the surf industry. Everyone is either a buyer or a seller, and you make an appointment to...
by Robert August | Mar 2, 2018 | August Odysseys
Living on the beach in Southern California as a little kid, I would paddle out to surf just about every day from the age of 5 or 6. I had my half-shaped piece of wood to surf on, and I simply thought of catching waves as a really fun activity. I never thought about a...
by Robert August | Jan 31, 2018 | August Odysseys
[vc_row full_width=”full_width”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Even when we were youngsters, Bruce Brown was one of my best friends in the neighborhood, always hanging around my parents’ house in Seal Beach, California. Everyone seemed to gravitate there...
by Robert August | Jan 5, 2018 | August Odysseys
I recently accepted an invitation back to the place where my formative years were spent, Huntington Beach, California, for a very special reason. The18th annual induction ceremony of the Surfboard Builders Hall of Fame took place Oct. 21, 2017 at the International...