![]() ![]() And there’s Josh, mid-hora, happily chair-raised above friends and family and spinning around the SHACC museum floor with beatified surfboards made by Quigg, Hobie, Lopez, and Anderson propped against the walls in the background. Josh was still new to surfing at the time, but crazy for it, in that obsessive memory-stamping 13-year-old way, and his parents made a fledging dream come true by booking the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center for the party. The bar mitzvahs I’ve attended were all an absolute joy, spiritual and earthy, solemn and playful, with a vice-free raging good time at the party afterward.Ī short trailer for the new documentary Waves Apart shows filmmaker Josh Greene, ten years ago, having what looks like an absolute banger of a bar mitzvah party. ![]() I act the Jew now and then by mentioning my brother played volleyball in the Maccabi Games, and that Irv Zeiger, our family’s beloved showboating uncle, cofounded the Mulholland Tennis Club because Jews were barred from other Los Angeles-area clubs.īut I never attended synagogue or fasted for Yom Kippur or celebrated Hannukah. I am three-quarters Jewish and 100% non-practicing. But any Jew Boy stuff? Fifty-plus years in surfing and nothing. "I have had my car windows waxed for being a non-local, I've been blasted as a surfing feminist. But which name would you select if you were surfing the MEO Rip Curl Portugal Pro? If true, it seems lightly wild that the World Surf League would be so… passive aggressively vindictive and small. Rumor has it, from a well-placed source, that Hamilton’s name has been outlawed even though a fair number of surfers requested it. Chief of Executives Erik Logan even declared that he “respected her views” in a recent interview telegraphing “seismic changes.” The World Surf League, as a body, remained mum on the outcry, which received mainstream coverage. Bethany Hamilton joined a chorus of frustrated voices and in a to-camera piece, declared that she would be boycotting the WSL until the policy was undone. You certainly recall, last month, when the World Surf League quietly announced a change allowing for transgender athletes to compete at the highest level of the sport. and is celebrated by the World Surf League with the men wearing a jersey imprinted with the name of an inspirational woman.Īnd, last year, the most inspirational Bethany Hamilton was chosen by Owen Wright, Conner Coffin and Griffin Colapinto. The March 8th extravaganza is celebrated the world over in various and sundry ways. His family was later sent to the camp at Tule Lake in Northern California.The MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal will open its curtains in exactly seven days which also just so happens to coincide with International Women’s Day. Released from the facility after undergoing extensive spinal surgery and learning how to walk, the 11-year-old Morita found himself in the relocation camp at Gila River, Ariz., joining his family and thousands of other Japanese Americans rounded up after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. He contracted spinal tuberculosis when he was 2 and spent the next nine years in a sanitarium run by Catholic priests and nuns near Sacramento. The younger of two children of migrant fruit pickers, Noriyuki Morita was born in Isleton, Calif. And his early life was anything but athletic. But unlike Lee, Morita knew little about martial arts before he took up the Miyagi role. Children flocked to instruction studios, and competitions sprouted up quickly around the country. ![]() The “Karate Kid” films sparked a renewed interest in the martial arts, which had first surfaced with the Bruce Lee film craze in the early 1970s.
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