Winter in San Diego… not a bad place to be. Photos by Patrick Trefz.

Ever wondered what it looks like to get burned by a sponger while you’re stuck in the barrel? Mark Mathews posted this sequence up on his website Chasing Chalk. He has the full play-by-play and …

It’s rubber month over at mesurf’s online mag. The have a couple good articles up already with more to come. Mid month they’re dropping a large independent wetsuit guide, looking at 11 of the top wetsuits in the market for 2010.

I got a chance to talk with Ryan Moss about the clip he put together with Nat Young for Innersection.

RYOBI has partnered with the ad agency BMF Sydney to come up with this clever set of advertisements for their power tools. Someone over there gets it.

-JY- over at Liquid Playground has been on fire, getting some gorgeous photos in Socal.

Yeah, you want to surf perfect Pipe? Nic Muscroft over at MOBORUSH shows what that wonderful reef will do to your board alone, just on the paddle out. Watch those fingers on the duck dives.

The Daily Bread blog out of Newport Beach posts up epic images from every little bump of a swell to come through.

Aaron Lieber’s first film, The Pursuit, was the sickest movie I saw last year, and he’s hard at work on The Pursuit II.

Here’s a sneak peak at some of the footage, Torrey Meister going big.

Surf photographer Kyle Sparks has a couple new shots from some surf sessions he’s been scoring. Check out his work at kylesparks.com