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Go, Surf the Rockaways for Solidarity!

If you’ve ever dreamed about being one of the sun-bleached and tanned cadre of New York City surfers, there is no better time to get started

Go, Surf the Rockaways for Solidarity!
Locals in the action explaining basics to their students (image via Locals Surf School Facebook Page)

Go, Surf the Rockaways for Solidarity!

If you’ve ever dreamed about being one of the sun-bleached and tanned cadre of New York City surfers, there is no better time to get started

Go, Surf the Rockaways for Solidarity!

If you’ve ever dreamed about being one of the sun-bleached and tanned cadre of New York City surfers, there is no better time to get started. Hurricane Sandy ripped apart the Rockaways and there is still no boardwalk along the beachfront, but the waves are rolling in one perfect break after another and the surfers are out, their lean bodies looking beautiful in black wetsuits. So now is the time to learn to surf in the Rockaways. Go now, go while there are still makeshift roadblocks and broken-down houses, go to remind the natives while they live so close to the shoreline, why they spent months carrying sand out of their basements and powering their homes with generators.

Locals Surf School is run by Mike Reinhardt and Mike Kololyan, two Rockaway natives who have been friends since they were just kids hauling surfboards bigger than them down to…

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