"Their ticket to freedom in a world of special fun is to catch a wave."

I've been reading Waves and Beaches by Willard Bascom, which is an excellent study, in layman's terms, about just what you'd glean it would be about from the title: waves and beaches, and how each are formed and how they interact and effect each other and all that. It's been really good, with some of the stuff relevant to surfing and some not, but all interesting nonetheless. Yesterday I got to a small section about surfing and I particularly enjoyed the description here:

That pretty much sums me up as a surfer, anyway. Especially the part about "a covey of adoring surf bunnies."  But yeah, check out the book if you want to learn more about the main things we deal with in surfing.

Heavy Metal Kids, by the one and only Kraftwerk, from a 1971 performance on Bremen Radio. Heavy. There's that word again....