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Tetsuhiko Endo

Tetsuhiko Endo

The Inertia Senior Contributor

I went to the Surfer Poll awards last night with a small camera and took pictures of things that I found interesting. I am not a photographer. For those who don’t know, the Surfer Poll is a popularity contest.

My Evening at the Surfer Poll Awards

5 min read Dec 8, 2013

John John Florence: no stranger to Pipeline. That's for sure. Photo: ASP

John John Florence Will Win Pipe Masters

2 min read Dec 7, 2013

Pristine lineups are certainly being “discovered” by more people and crowded out, but this is just as much a function of extreme demographic pressures in well-known surfing areas as it is any effect of spots being revealed in the media through photos or the odd contest.

Business & Media

My Spot? Your Photos? The Ethics of Exposing Secret Waves

6 min read Nov 27, 2013

Dropping In: Get Yours, F*ck the Haters, and Let the Devil Take the Hindmost

7 min read Nov 5, 2013

We are reaching a critical moment in extreme sports in which the meaning of life, and the meaning of sport itself is cannibalized by the search for the torrid spectacle of tempting death. It will be a hell of a show, but when it comes, let us never say that the blood of the young and reckless isn’t buried deep under our fingernails. Photo: Mark Wegner

Business & Media

Blood on Our Hands: Maya Gabeira, Mortality, and the Perversity of Big Wave Surfing

7 min read Oct 29, 2013

Business & Media

The Definitive Treatise on Performance Enhancing Drugs in Big Wave Surfing

6 min read Oct 22, 2013

Steph Gilmore Spirit of Akasha by Andrew Kidman

Who’s Tops Now: Stephanie Gilmore > Mick Fanning?

7 min read Oct 1, 2013

Joel Parkinson 2012 ASP World Champion.

Business & Media

The Truth About Billabong: Reading Between the Zeros

7 min read Sep 10, 2013

Teahupoo, Bullfighting, and the Art of the Closeout

5 min read Aug 16, 2013

Business & Media

Dane Reynolds and Craig Anderson’s Slow Dance: Monumental Surfing Meets Ambivalence

6 min read Aug 8, 2013

Business & Media

Of Diamond Theft and Facebook Photo Crimes: You May Be Guilty

7 min read Jul 24, 2013

Steph Gilmore's Ass, Roxy

Ass and the Roxy Pro Biarritz

5 min read Jul 6, 2013

laird hamilton, peahi, jaws, tow-in surfing, big wave surfing, mt everest

Business & Media

Laird Hamilton, Corpses, and Crap: Exploiting Surfing’s Everest

6 min read Jun 27, 2013

Surffilmfestibal

Unmediated Thoughts on Upcoming San Sebastian Surf Film Festibal

5 min read Jun 11, 2013

Every time a Brazilian is criticized for some arbitrary breach of hoary rules of conduct like being too demonstrative or competing too hard, I hear a single phrase: “You are playing our sport, and you will play it by our rules.” That has to change.

Business & Media

A Deleted Article and the Harmful Misrepresentation of Brazilian Surfers

6 min read May 21, 2013

Fergal Smith and the art of the webclip

Fergal Smith and the Art of the Haiku

7 min read May 14, 2013

The Murder of Captain Cook at O-Why-ee. O-Em-Gee.

Survival of the Fittest: Five Stories of Living through the Unlivable

7 min read Apr 30, 2013

A short film featuring one of the most stylish female longboarders around, "Worm" features Erin Ashley (aka Worm) sliding on some perfect California points.

Business & Media

Joel Tudor and Reflections on the State of Longboarding

5 min read Apr 9, 2013

The Road To Ghost Cabins by Fred Pawle should be required reading for anyone who takes surfing as a culture seriously.

Business & Media

Review: The Road to Ghost Cabins by Fred Pawle

6 min read Mar 30, 2013