Know Your Rights: Surfer-shaper-punk-military vet, Sean Piper
“Know Your Rights” is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with local surfers whose love for the ocean fuels their passion, in…
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Nor’easter Alert: Hurricane season winding down; Wetsuit Season looms
All of the prognostications about the Atlantic Hurricane Season 2018 have been pretty spot on, to date. We've had 14 named storms, a few of theme sever…
Amelia Island Shaper Makes Board Fit for a King
Amelia Island based shaper and surfer, Justin Laird, was given the opportunity of a lifetime when he was granted the privilege to shape a surfboard for…
Interview: Joel Tudor, Florida Man
This morning, as Joel Tudor, Justin Quintal and I sat floating and attempting to psychically actualize one ridable set wave from the gutless northeast …
Promoting Women in the Water for Two Decades, Sisters of the Sea Returns this Weekend!
One of the most hotly anticipated local surf events of the year, The Sisters Sea Surf Classic kicks off at the Jacksonville Beach Pier on Saturday, Sep…
HURRICANE WATCH: Florence to make landfall with other systems behind it
Fun building swell from Ol' Flo all week with the "Main Event" on tap for Thursday, Florence strengthened, then weakened, then intensified to what may …
Surf Shacks Author on his Beautiful New St. Augustine Project
It’s hard to know what to call the 92-page St. Augustine issue. Tabloid size and chalked full of high quality color imagery, it’s perhaps too substanti…
Know Your Rights Shaper Gallery: Sean Cusick
St. Augustine surfer-shaper Sean Cusick is part of talented crop of young craftsman mowing foam in the Oldest City. A shredding surfer on all manner of…
Interview: Duct Tape Festival Brings Musician and Pro Surfer, Lee-Ann Curren to Town
Since its inception a decade ago, Joel Tudor’s traveling longboard road show, the Van’s Duct Tape Invitational, has been about a lot more than logging …
Watch: Garage Trio The Mother Gooses Answer the Tough Questions
The best garage rock has enough greasy swagger to step out of the garage. How punk are The Mother Gooses? They don’t even have a damn garage but they s…
Watch: EC’s Best Longboarders in J. Quinny’s Loggerhead Classic
Local boy Justin Quintal is, by many measures, the best longboarder in the world, winning more Duct Tape Invitational contests (the world's premier log…
Know Your Rights: T-U Features Writer, Matt Soergel
“Know Your Rights” is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with local surfers whose love for the ocean fuels his or her passio…
Dragon Factory’s Dev Model Honors Local Surfer/Trainer Devan Kennedy
In September of 2016, local surfer, fitness trainer and owner/operator of Jax rehab and performance training studio Endless Training, Devan Kennedy die…
GALLERY: Void Pro/Am Photo Bonanza!
What a weekend! We're still recovering from what was one of the mostest funnest surf contests of which any of us here at Void have ever been a part. Wi…
We Picked up a Drifter: Rob Machado is in town
For surfers of different generations, San Diego’s Rob Machado brings to mind different visions. Surfers of Gen X likely remember Machado as a standout …
How to Longboard: Just Stand There?
As both someone who appreciates surf craft of the heavy, nine-foot-plus variety and someone who has made a "living" as a surf journalist (debatable whe…
We Love Everything about this Video of J. Quinny and Friends
We are gushing over this new longboard clip featuring North Florida log-maestro Justin Quintal and friends. And what's not to love? Pristine and gre…
A Beschen Session: Pipeline charger, Mauli Ola crew at SURFER tonight!
North Shore-based pro surfer Gavin Beschen doesn't remember if he's been to Northeast Florida before. Which is surprising, given that judging by the wa…
WATCH: We can finally stand to look at this edit
Do you find it intolerable to watch videos of people surfing when there are no waves and you yourself have been unable to shred? Samesies. Which is why…
Kenny Richards, Ginger Beer, and the Root of Curiosity
Kenny Richards is a searcher. That interrogative spirit has led the Atlantic Beach native and Episcopal School graduate down a rabbit hole (or ten). Th…
Know Your Rights: Step into Liquid with Brewmaster Eric Luman
"Know Your Rights" is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with local surfers whose love for the ocean fuels his or her passio…
Old City Style: 2018 Log Jam Recap
How great is surfing in Northeast Florida in the summer? I mean besides the crowds, lack of beach-adjacent parking, tourists, lack of quality surf... d…
FINANCIAL ADVICE: From the Green Room to a One, Two, or Three Bedroom
Those old enough to remember the pre-recession economy, circa 2007, will certainly recall how utterly bananas the housing market was in Northeast Flori…
Tonight: Meet Very Funny, Very Good Surf Journalist Chas Smith at SURFER the Bar
Author, and now documentarian, Chas Smith has earned infamy in the world of surf journalism, spinning mostly first-person documentations of surfdom acr…
Go: Florida Surf Film Festival at Surfer the Bar
Though Florida’s vibrant surf communities are collectively known more for the ridiculous number of surf stars the state’s produced—Frieda Zamba, Lisa A…