Kook, noun. Pronunciation: kük : An individual with no understanding of the social and sartorial norms of surfing. In the water, a kook’s cluelessness can aggravate or endanger other surfers; on ...

Some things are inevitable when surfing in Southern California: It can feel like an exclusive club, you may have to battle traffic to get to the good waves, and overhearing a very specific, and ...

Is there any other sport in the world, in which the established participants, are as critical and intolerant towards the beginners of said sport than surfing? Surfers – at least those who have been ...

No matter how long you've been surfing, someone dropping in on you still sucks. And a word to the wise: it's totally unacceptable. But there's more to that rule. Always respect your elders in the ...

The Register Book Club is reading surf memoir “Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life and Catching the Perfect Wave” by Peter Heller. Heller, an aventure and outdoors writer, tells how he dealt ...

Oct 27 (Reuters) - Residents of the tiny Tahitian village of Teahupo'o say they are considering more protests to stop Olympic organisers building a three-story aluminium tower on a reef where the ...

“Kook” is a book that will certainly leave readers who are looking for a captivating story satisfied and glad that they decided to give this book a try. But, “Kook” does have a few hiccups that are ...

Author Peter Heller spent two months with anti-whaling activists aboard a beat-up boat in Antarctica for one book. A kayaking expedition down a legendarily remote river gorge in Tibet provided the ...

I haven’t run into any surfers with iPhones, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t out there. Today, Oakley (the guys that make those hideous Thump sunglasses) and Surfline announced their free app: Surf ...