Dakine Pancho Pro Traction Pad keeps your foot planted on your tail during hot moves and can actually say a lot about your personal steeze. For example, if you have a Rasta colored pad, well, chances are you are in to kind reggae beats or a super irie life style mon. This Dakine pad will tell everyone in the line up that you are super into Legos, or something….

Surf boards are like eggs. they are super strong in one direction and fragile in another. Luckily for everyone with an eps or any type of epoxy board, there is a portable solution other than duck tape or stickers. It’s easy to use, dries quickly and protects any boo boos from letting water into your blade. Remember, do not use any polyurethane ding repair kits with epoxy boards. Picture acid dumped on a styrofoam cooler.

Ok, this thing is friggen awesome.  A little fan forces air into the wet suit from the top down -  cutting your drying time in half. However, if you are one of those people that pee in your wetsuit every time you get in the water, this little fan will not only dry your wetsuit in record time – but will also make a room smell like like a truck stop restroom in August lickety split

Spring into summer means warmer air temps, but sometimes old Neptune doesn’t quite get the memo and warm up the bath! Here is your answer – the Cypher 2mil full suit. Call it your in-between season suit. Less rubber means more mobility. Besides, its always good to wear less rubber, that is, unless your night job is a dominatrix!

What can I say about GoPro that isn’t awesomely obvious? Pretty much nothing. Anyhow, for those that don’t know: GoPro cameras are tough little HD cameras that can be mounted to a whole cornucopia of surfaces. From cars to surfboards, your head, your friend’s head, helmets, torsos, basically everyplace. The footage is HD quality and you can make unreal POV movies with the thing.  What I do fear is that someone is going to take these into the adult film business…and then it gets really awkward.

When I first started skating, the Santa Cruz logo and the art of Jim Phillips went hand in hand.  SC Surfboards is keeping the 80s alive with a collection of boards that feature such classics as the Robroskopp Mini Face, the Speedwheels Screaming Hand and Jason Jesse’s Sea God Graphic. Now I’m sure that these boards drive down the line and punt with the best of them, but I would buy one of these and hang it like art.

It’s like a sweater for your surfboard! Keep wax off the interior of your car and the sun from turning your brand new board into a yellowing cigarette butt.  Bonus application: you can get inside it like a ghetto sleeping bag while on trips.

It’s hard to be green in the surfboard industry. All that foam & fiberglass, even with all the efforts the companies make, it just kind of turns out light brown. However, I totally back any and all efforts to keep the planet from becoming a pile of garbage for our kids. FCS has created a fin that is 50% recycled material that maintains the flex and performance of a normal fiberglass fin. I’m getting some for sure. Hope they don’t scratch the inside of my Hummer though.

You get the call: “Dude, Gary just flaked on us and we need one more head on our Tavarua trip – can you make it?”  So you scramble like a beheaded yard bird, get the money together, stuff 4 boards into a 2 board bag & make it to the airport only to have your zipper blow out on your shaka bra brand POS board bag – spilling leashes, boards, wax and that pair of speedos that you wear to keep your boys free of sea lice onto the floor at the crowded international terminal at LAX. LAME !

This was easily avoidable.

Look, if you’re spending the cash to go on the ultimate surf trip, then make the investemnt in a trustworthy tough board bag with wheels. The World Traveler is just that. Extra padding, carries up to 4 boards (you can stretch that) and tough as nails. Nothing worse than making it to your surf destination to find out your boards have airline love bruises all over them.