Surf’s up with contributing editor Larry Pynn
Larry Pynn was in Tofino last weekend, testing out the waves at Long Beach, British Columbia’s best-known surf spot. And while it may not appear from this photo that our contributing editor was hard at work, the trip was all in the name of research. Pynn will write about hanging-ten and the like for a future Outdoor Advisor column in British Columbia Magazine.
This was only the second time the Tsawwassen-based writer has tested himself on a longboard. In 2001, a high-school friend living in Hawaii introduced him to Maui’s breakers. Pynn clenched his teeth so hard at the sight of each oncoming wave that he threw his jaw out.
This time, he benefited from the guidance of Sepp Bruhwiler of Tofino’s Westside Surf School and even managed a few times to stand on the board and travel several metres before “bailing out” in the shallows.
(You may not have been riding the big kahuna, Larry, but we’re proud of you just the same.)
“I had a great time” says Pynn of his surfing exploits. “My only regrets are that you can’t hide anything in a wetsuit, and that I live so far away from Tofino’s crashing surf.”