The folks over at Ruse Entertainment created this hilarious and savvy video introducing the newest way to roll: Tarp Surfing. Santa Cruz surfers Homer Henard and Nic Lamb, with special assistance from Omar Etcheverry, show the world how to Tarp Surf with style. The perfect way to get barreled during the summer doldrums, when surf is either too small, blown out, or just pure crap.

Former three-time ASP World Champion Andy Irons joined Cyrus & Steve on January 9th, 2004 and January 11th, 2005 following both his second and third ASP World Championships to talk about his rivalry with Kelly Slater, and the way he's portrayed in the media.

Note: This story is a special contribution from Nugable.  Go to his website for hilarious, insightful and honest surfing revelations.

The online surfing world has been stagnant lately. Well, that’s not completely true. Surfline posted its 47^th “How Good Was California This Week?” photo gallery this month. I did enjoy that. Kurungabaa posted the complete works of Dostoyevsky (in Russian). Transworld, (God bless them) ran a Vimeo video of something. And Boardistan (perhaps my personal favorite) kept a tidy tally on its Google news alert with the keywords “Surf, Skate and Snow.” Copy and paste carpel tunnel is no laughing matter gentlemen.

…and so it goes.

The best high school surf teams in the nation gathered this past weekend at Upper Trestles for the 5^th annual National Surf League (NSL) High School Cup National Championship featuring the “Game” format.  With a new south swell delivering 3-4 foot sets all day and glassy conditions, the Huntington Beach High Oilers took home their first ever NSL High School Cup national title by out dueling the San Dieguito Academy Mustangs in a display of some of the most progressive and innovative surfing ever seen in amateur competition as judged by a highly qualified judging crew of professional surfers.

Sooner or later, the massive amount of oil leaking from BP’s oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was going to cross paths with surfers. Two different video accounts show graphic descriptions and first-hand accounts of the tar balls hitting Florida’s Pensacola Beach area of the Gulf Coast.

The Moviestar Peru Classic, the fifth stop of the ASP Women’s World Tour, was postponed for a day when Head Judge Dave Shipley decided last week not that the waves were too small, but rather that the waves were too big. Shipley’s decision further eroded the professional credibility of the ASP Women’s World Tour.

The best high school surf teams in the country will meet at Upper Trestles, CA this weekend June 12-13 for the National Surf League (NSL) High School Cup Championships.

The Sunset Beach community, realizing how pathetic it is that Huntington Beach still calls itself Surf City even though it only sees a few good days of surf each year, has decided to make an attempt at denying being annexed by Huntington Beach, preferring to become its own city.

One of the pioneers of surfing, Greg Noll joined Cyrus & Steve in-person on July 16th, 2004 to talk about starring in Riding Giants, how surfing has changed over the years, and the rumored 100-foot wave Noll surfed in Hawaii.

U.S. Representative Bill Posey, a Republican whose district includes Kelly Slater’s hometown of Cocoa Beach, Florida, joined U.S. Representative Mazie Hirono of Hawaii to introduce a bipartisan resolution recognizing Kelly Slater as an official Surf Ambassador for his numerous lifetime accomplishments and contributions to the sport of surfing. The resolution passed the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously, thus making Slater the first official U.S. Surf Ambassador.