Hobie Shop :: Blogger Vacation : Top Ten Favorite Blog Posts Part 2

No Big Deal… I’ll be Here While You Read This!!

AhhhHhhhOoooOooooOoooo…. SPRING BREAK!!!! Yes, as you are reading this, I am traversing my way around one of the Seven Wonders of The World… a glorious, magnificent, wondrous, massive hole in the ground known as THE GRAND CANYON. I feel very Clark Griswold. Anyway… on Tuesday we shared five of our ten favorite blog posts. So today, even though I’m busy touching the Earth, through the magic of the internets, I bring you, in no particular order,  the other five! Enjoy and your all invited to my place when I get back for fondu and a slideshow of my trip… just kidding, there won’t be any fondu…. and since my place is realllllly small, you’ll have to come in shifts…. actually, maybe when you come over, you could bring the fondu?? …Enjoy!!!

Sixth ::  Hobie Alter’s 79th Birthday, Surfboard Auction, and Trip Through Hobie History in a SlideShow!!!  

Seventh :: Mickey Munoz on Buzzy Trent and Commitment.

Eighth :: Photo Essay of Our Dory Team. 

Ninth ::  Cure For Salt Water Dry Lips…. Laugh if you will, I swear it works! 

Tenth :: Mark Johnson recreates Hobie Alters First Board.

And, because it makes me laugh every time I watch it… Bucky Barry sweeper skateboards the parking lot for International Surfing Day. Enjoy, and I’ll see you on Tuesday!!!

-Tracey Engelking

Hobie History: Mickey Munoz on Buzzy Trent and Commitment

The following is an excerpt from the book “No Bad Waves: Talking Story with Mickey Munoz“. It is a bit about Buzzy Trent, but the last two paragraphs are great pieces of life advice from Mickey on commitment.

No Bad Waves Talking Story with Mickey Munoz

Buzzy Trent’s Commitment

Another one of my gurus was Buzzy Trent. Buzzy was a local Santa Monica guy, who went to Santa Monica High and was a football player there. He was physically endowed and a gutsy surfer; he rode as big a waves as anybody and as far back.

We went up to Rincon a lot in the winter at that time and also surfed Overhead. Overhead was the closest thing that we had to the hard-breaking outside waves in Hawaii. Buzzy loved Overhead. He would take me there and paddle out with me and encourage me into waves. Buzzy would never take off in front of anybody. He was always farther inside closer to the curl . That was just Buzzy’s ethic, and he tried to instill that in me. He knew it was better to commit completely to the ride.

When you’re surfing Pipeline, you need to commit totally. You’re better off going for it than trying to pull back at the last second because the wipeouts when you pull back at the last second are way worse. You have to want it, and even though you’ve made a mistake and you know you’ve taken off too late or you can’t do it, you still need to go for it because it’s worse if you don’t.

You can apply that one to life in general. Don’t be dumb. Don’t think you can stand in front of a train or jump out of an airplane without a parachute and flap your wings and fly. Don’t be totally stupid, but if you do commit to something, go for it. You’ll learn from the wipeouts. So you take off deeper in the pocket and you might not make a lot of waves, but the ones you do will be the real rewards.

-Micky Munoz

Go out there, get out into the world and go for it. Commit to something and be ok if you fail. You tried, and most people spend the bulk of their lives never trying. Chances are, if you try hard enough and long enough you will succeed! But, remember what Mickey said.. Don’t be dumb… that could be best piece of advice I have ever heard.

-Tracey Engelking