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Zack Johnson: Robert August What I Ride Wow, this is a wide range of surfers reading this article! Beginner and never-evers, all the way geographic transplants, diehard longboarders and aging shortboarders. Over the past several seasons, the surfing world has...

If you’ve recently added a …Lost RV, LayZboy, Couch Potato or Bottom Feeder to your quiver and are looking for a new board to fill in “above it” when the surf gets better, the …Lost V3 Rocket is definitely a...

Summer is HERE and we’re surfing in trunks every day. If you forgot to order your custom summer shred stick last January who cares?! Stock is the new Custom! What does this mean? For the same price as a custom...

We’ve all heard the conversation, “Kite X is the fastest kite I’ve ever flown!” Before you switch out your current quiver in search of the fastest kite available, it’s important to understand what we mean by “fast”… So what makes...

10 years ago, kite brands, shops and local riders claimed that carbon control bars were stronger, stiffer and lighter than aluminum. Fast forward to 2014 and you will struggle to find anyone even considering a carbon control bar. So what...

Reviewing the Core Riot Light Wind Edition: What we like: While rigging up to test out the light wind version of the Core Riot XR3 we were reliably informed that some of our team had been using the 19m to...

Ruben Lenten testing c-shape turning in Cape Hatteras, NC. Many kites on the market today blend “C-Shape Turning” with the safety and control of an SLE (bridled kite). In the early days of kiteboarding everyone knew how to define c-shape...

…Lost surfboards have recent starting shipping new surfboards with white tail patches instead of the carbon patches we are all used to. The big question is: why? Here is Matt Biolos’ reasoning behind the new non-carbon white tail patches on...

Earlier this year we met up with Ryan Carlson at Surf Expo. If you’re not sure who Ryan is – he’s one of California’s biggest rippers. Among other awards he won the “video contest” at the recent US Open Of...