History of the surf leash repeats itself in river surfing. Jack O’Neill was born ironically in Denver, CO on March 27, 1923. Though as a youth, Jack O’Neill moved with his family to California to discover body surfing and stand up surfing. Jack O’Neill later in life created the first surf wetsuit company, known as O’Neill […]
Category: Style
River surfing has many different styles from ocean to SUP to bodyboarding to matsurfing to skimboarding to paipo to bodysurfing. None are the be-all end-all style; just do it with style!
RUGGED SURFER CREW 2023 List Query
“Gabba Gabba Hey!” With under two months to go of surfing at least one day each month for an entire year, who will earn a spot as part of the “Rugged Surfer Crew” for 2023? Looking for names of those who will pull it off. Send nominations via the “contact” drop down from the main […]
Your River Surfing Style?
Style (noun) a particular manner or technique by which something is done, created, or performed; a distinctive manner of expression; a distinctive manner or custom of behaving or conducting oneself. There is no one correct style of river surfing, all are cool. And there is no one distinctive style (or community) that one must conduct […]
Matsurfing In The River
Get hip, matsurfing has been around longer than your parents have been around. Google George Greenough, he is widely considered the father of modern matsurfing and much much more…
Dave’s Wave Is NOT Poop Water
People love to hate on Dave’s Wave because they think the water is straight-up sewer water. Guess they never have surfed SoCal after a rain event where actual untreated sewage is overwhelmed by stormwater and human crap/piss is dragged straight into the ocean. Denver, unlike SoCal, separates the waste treatment system from storm drain water […]
LANDLOCKED SURFERS
Denver metro area surfers are much like others surfers who somehow found themselves thousands of miles away from their passion of surfing the ocean. Might have been for work, for life events, for the mountains, or whatever. Though unlike landlocked surfers in most other parts of the country, Denver has river surfing. Sure it is […]
The Denver Surf Report 