Posted on December 4, 2009 by Srinivas Rao
Saltwater Buddha chronicles the spiritual/surfing journey of Jaimal Yogis. After my initial read of the book, I felt like selling everything I owned, leaving a note for my parents, and just getting on a plane to some developing country with good waves. Jaimal’s journey, which started in high school was a similar path, except he [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2009 by Srinivas Rao
Last night I met up with an old friend who has been going through a somewhat spiritual transformation. He went to burning man and that seems to have started him on a whole new set of adventures. He thought the 20’s were an adventure, and now at the age of 30 he has a whole [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2009 by Srinivas Rao
First off I should let you know that the guys at Greco get an A+ in customer service because my friend bought this board and on the first day out with it, he snapped it in half. We’re not really sure how that happened, but when my friend took it back to Greco, they gave [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2009 by Srinivas Rao
In part I and part II of my review of the Wavestorm, I shared some of my own experiences with riding this board. I surfed with this board at Southern California surf spots: San Onofre, Santa Monica Bay St, and El Porto. I jokingly claim to the be the unofficial spokesperson for the Costco Wavestorm.
The [...]
Posted on November 28, 2009 by Srinivas Rao
As I mentioned in part I of this review, I had what some surfers would call the misfortune of riding the Costco Wavestorm for more than 6 months, which is an unusually long time for somebody who is an avid surfer to spend on a foam board.
While some may see it as misfortune, I think [...]
Posted on November 27, 2009 by Srinivas Rao
Earlier this year Costco decided to enter the market of making surfboards. If you don’t know a thing about surfing, then this is probably the perfect board for you. If you are an experienced surfer, it’s a fun board to have in the quiver to teach friends how to surf. If you have been surfing [...]
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Posted on November 26, 2009 by Srinivas Rao
It all started 6 years ago at the French Atlantic coast, where I stayed in a surf camp to recover from way too many hours working sitting on my butt and not caring about my body and soul. I thought surfing would be a perfect way to balance this out, but I just didn’t get [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2009 by Srinivas Rao
This post has been brewing in my head for quite some time and I even used the title as a point in another post that I submitted for publication elsewhere. Then I realized this one line is a blog post in and of itself. For the first several months of my surfing experience, I [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2009 by Srinivas Rao
Somebody recently asked me what it felt like to ride a wave. While I’ve thrown probably a dozen posts at you about the subject, today I received a really interesting description from somebody. I was back at Pepperdine talking to my old marketing professor about life and the fact that surfing has become such a [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2009 by Srinivas Rao
People say to find something you are tremendously passionate about and put your heart and soul into it, and what you’ll get out of it will be extremely rewarding. At least that’s what I make of all the things that have been said about finding and doing things you are passionate about. They don’t need [...]
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