The Longform Guide to Surfing: Great stories about big waves, unlikely champs, and “the dark prince of the beach.” Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images.
Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitter. Have an iPad? Download Longform’s app to read the latest picks, plus features from dozens of other magazines, including Slate. In honor of this crazy heat—summer will end, right? William Finnegan • The New Yorker • August 1992 On surfing, and surfing in San Francisco, and surfing with a San Francisco surfing fanatic. “Mark’s logbook also showed that the longest period of time he had gone without surfing since 1969 was three weeks. Susan Orlean • Outside • March 2009 On surfer girls in Maui: the story that led to the film Blue Crush.
“The Maui surfer girls love each other's hair. William Langewiesche • Vanity Fair • February 2011 A profile of Ken Bradshaw, who at 45 surfed the tallest wave in recorded history. Gilbert Rogin • Sports Illustrated • October 1965. How to Use a [BUSTED] Cell Phone to Meet 5 Basic Survival Needs. Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Creek Stewart.
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Here, surfer Michael Grendon rides a wave on his ladder board. World's Largest Surf Board Brazilian surfer Rico de Souza evidently broke the record for surfing the world's longest surfboard. He surfed for 11 seconds on the extra-long 8.5-meter (28-foot) board at Macumba beach in Rio de Janeiro, as part of the Petrobras Longboard Classic. De Souza had already entered the Guinness record book previously, when he had 50 surfers catch the same wave, with 42 succeeding in staying upright for five seconds. Dog Surfer In 2009, around 60 surfer dogs brought their dudes, dudettes and assorted groupies to compete in the 4th annual Loews Dog Surfing Competition held in San Diego.
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(Photo: Colourbox) Here’s some good news for students living on spaghetti and meat sauce and bad canteen food, and for fathers who struggle to find the energy to cook up a proper meal for the family. If you exercise every day and get your heart rate up just a few times a week, giving it a bit extra when you run, bike or swim, your body will get healthier than if you change your diet in the hope that you’ll lose weight. If you can’t improve your diet, just exercise This is the simple message from a team of Danish researchers who have made the first thoroughly controlled study of how diet and exercise affects overweight men aged between 20 and 40. ”Scarily” little exercise enough to keep you healthy.
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Zierath and colleagues recently found that healthy, but inactive young adults experienced an immediate change to their muscle cells' genetic material when they engaged in just a few moments of exercise on a stationary bicycle. Specifically, samples of thigh muscle from the study participants had fewer markers of methyl-group chemicals after exercise than they did before it. Those methyl groups, in turn, are used to moderate genetic expression. The changes were seen specifically in areas that affect genes responsible for energy metabolism -- by contrast, areas that were unrelated to metabolism had steady levels of methyl group chemicals. What's more, the harder the brief workout, the more demethylized the metabolism-related regions became.
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