Matt Warshaw | The Inertia

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Warshaw on Losing Pipe: “WSL, You Blew It.”

3 min read Feb 16, 2018

Thomas Edison May Have Actually Been the World’s First Surf Filmmaker

3 min read Feb 27, 2017

Kelly Slater: Two Thoughts on his Volcom Pipe Pro Win

3 min read Feb 6, 2014

It was a three-year forced commando march to get this bastard of a project online. I loved it. Except when I hated it. Yet many parts of EOS, a surprisingly big number in fact, still sparkle, even to my jaded yellowing eyes. Here are eight of them.

The Encyclopedia of Surfing: 8 Parts That I’m Not Sick Of

6 min read Oct 2, 2013

Three years in web-time is like, what, 75 years in the real world? Thanks for waiting, everybody. Site is going up on Monday, September 30.

Business & Media

The Encyclopedia of Surfing Launches Online (Finally)

2 min read Sep 27, 2013

I’ve always had this fantasy that the Encyclopedia of Surfing would be on surfers’ desks and bookshelves everywhere, sort of like a REAL Bible. (Or Koran, or Torah, or whatever. Not making a religious point here, just saying.) So I’m putting it online to make that happen. Google search. Click. There it is: free to one and all. Photo: Encyclopedia of Surfing

Business & Media

Kickstart the (Online) Encyclopedia of Surfing

2 min read Nov 9, 2011

Matt Warshaw's The History of Surfing

Business & Media

We’re Hip, Right? Surfing’s Identity Crisis

3 min read Jan 13, 2011

Matt Warshaw's The History of Surfing

Pro Surfing on the Cheap

3 min read Oct 18, 2010

Matt Warshaw's The History of Surfing

Business & Media

Surf Literature: The New Yorker and Beyond

7 min read Sep 28, 2010