CJ Hobgood Ripping & Relaxing in Panama

After a grueling year on the World Tour in 2014, the Smith Optics International team rider CJ Hobgood wanted to get away and press the reset button before another big year in 2015.  The team made a mid-winter strike mission to the Caribbean side of Panama for some of...

The Inertia: Samoan Snapshots

Surf resort boatmen are the antithesis of a nine-to-fiver. It’s not the most lucrative gig, but it’s one of the most soul-satisfying occupations a surfer could ever have. On a recent trip to Salani Surf Resort in Samoa, Sean Murphy of Waterways Travel invited...