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Club Practice Sunday May 10th, Dunes Beach 9amSubmitted by mphelps on Sat, 2015-05-09 12:11
Club Surfers,
Looks like we'll have surfable conditions for Club Practice tomorrow! Please remember to get up early to make your mom breakfast, clean your room and finish your chores early!
We'll see you at the beach!!
Marty and Rocky
HMB High Surf Team Practice ScheduleSubmitted by mwallace on Thu, 2015-05-07 21:44
HMB High Surf Team Practice Schedule:
Paging all high school surfers - this is your last chance to tune up for states next weekend.
1) Friday 4 p.m. - Dunes
2) Sunday 9 a.m. - Kelly
We should have some combo swell on Friday, predominantly wind swell and moderate on-shores. We'll start at Dunes and go from there. Sunday should be small south-only - good day to bring your longboards out (hint, hint) after making breakfast for your mothers.
- Congratulations to Malcolm Feix for his "Surfer of the Year" award tonight from the Boy & Girls Club! Not only was it well-deserved, but he took the prize for the longest acceptance speech. Way to represent...
Coach Mike
SCSSL Awards PartySubmitted by mwallace on Wed, 2015-05-06 19:23
SCSSL Awards Party
Attn: High School and Middle School Surfers
Tuesday, May 12th
6:30 - 8:00
pizza at 6:30
awards at 7:00
Mission Hill Middle School
Please join us for our end of the year celebration
with pizza from Pizza My Heart, team and individual
awards, and a group league photo.
5.4.15 Club Practice Update: No Practice todaySubmitted by mphelps on Mon, 2015-05-04 08:38
Club Surfers,
Again, the south swell is too big to safely run a club practice today.
See report below:
Big, long period SSW groundswell peaks today. SSW exposed breaks will be head high-overhead. Better summer spots will see sets up to 2-3 feet overhead, while select magnets see even larger sets on occasion. Also, a modest NW windswell continues, offering waist-head high waves for NW exposed breaks. Winds are steady from the NW now, adding texture to the surface. Tide is still negative, rising to a 4.49' at 12:35.
Short-Term Forecast for SF-San Mateo County: Size and consistency hold/build all day. Winds continue from the W. Tide drops to a 2.13' at 5:37pm.
It's looking like next Sunday may work for us. Check back for updates!
Marty and Rocky
High School Surf Team Practice ScheduleSubmitted by mwallace on Wed, 2015-04-29 19:37
High School Surf Team Practice Schedule:
1) Thursday 6:15 a.m. - Kelly free surf
2) Friday 4 pm. - Dunes official practice
3) Sunday 9 am. - Dunes official practice*
* Sunday will be the deadline for all remaining paperwork for states. Please send in SSS waivers, individual forms and checks directly per previous instructions. I will take any school district forms from non-coastside surfers. Others should turn in directly to Mr. Lawrence at HMB High this week.
A steep south swell should fill in later in the week with offshores and some decent weather, so we may adjust practice venues at the last moment, depending on where it's hitting. Also, please feel free to join Ollie and Marty before school on Thursday for a "free surf" - the wind is supposed to mellow out and they will open the gate early.
Coach Mike
P.S. Keep an eye out for the Chile BWWT event under the WSL, perhaps starting on Friday or Saturday. Should be a solid 20-30 feet.
High School Free Surf 6:45am Thursday 4.30.15 Kelly StreetSubmitted by okeeton on Wed, 2015-04-29 17:15
High School Surfers,
Conditions are looking better for dawn patrol before school.
See you in the AM!
Marty and Oliver
Dream Machines Tee Shirts Sales Volunteers Needed!Submitted by mphelps on Thu, 2015-04-23 19:40
Dream Machine update:
Please use the link above to sign up for tee-shirt sales. This is a fun way for you to raise money for our surf club.
Rocky was able to work his magic and get the volunteers free passes to the show. We'll leave the volunteer passes at the south entrance by Meza Luna in an envelope for the surf club. Be sure to sign up first so that we know how many passes to leave.
First shift starts at 11:00am. We'll most likely close up around 3pm with the last shift just doing clean up.
Please feel free to email me directly at email@example.com if you have any questions or call me the day of at 650-773-0936
We'll need parent volunteers during all shifts to watch over the money.
Free Surf/Practice - 6:30 am - ... KellyTuesday 4-21-15Submitted by okeeton on Mon, 2015-04-20 18:21
I'm thinking there is a chance for surf in the am... so if you are interested I will be at the Kelly for a free surf before school.
Oliver (Marty is still grounded)
Monday 4.20.15 Club Practice will be at Dunes 3:45pmSubmitted by mphelps on Mon, 2015-04-20 06:55
Club Surfers,
It looks like we'll be okay to run club practice today. Swell be in the 3-5 foot range.
Conditions are looking clean too!
Marty and Rocky
HMB Club Surf Practice cancelled for Sunday 4.19Submitted by mphelps on Sat, 2015-04-18 15:29
Club Surfers,
Swell is still too big for club practice. It looks like the swell will be backing off for us to pull off a session on Monday afternoon. We'll post an update tomorrow evening.
Marty and Rocky
HMB High Surf Team Practice SundaySubmitted by mwallace on Sat, 2015-04-18 09:45
HMB High Surf Team Practice Sunday:
Conditions look decent for a Sunday 9 a.m. practice at Kelly on Sunday, though we could move up the beach if conditions are still large in the morning. Bring your paperwork for states and I can sign any paperwork for the individual competition as well.
Coach Mike
P.S. Good luck Middle Schoolers at the State Championships in Oceanside!! Go HMB!
Free Surf/Practice - 6:30 am - ... Jetty Tuesday 3/31/15Submitted by okeeton on Mon, 2015-03-30 20:12
I'm thinking there is a chance for surf in the am... so if you are interested I will be at the Jetty for a free surf before school.
Oliver (Marty is still grounded)
HMB High Surf Team Non-practice ScheduleSubmitted by mwallace on Thu, 2015-03-26 21:33
HMB High Surf Team Non-practice Schedule:
After ending our regular season last Sunday in fine style, the high school squad will be taking a break from practices for 2-3 weeks before prepping for States in May. But please take advantage of this break to work on your weaknesses:
- Whether going backside, more vertical, using arms effectively, cross-stepping, etc.
- Contact me and I will be happy to go over a personal plan, film, or go for a surf in the meantime.
- If you want to advance at States, seek out soft waves like Linda Mar, Dunes or Miramar at high tide and work on keeping up your momentum going right. These are quite honestly the best local substitutes we have for Church's.
- Continue to incorporate positive "self-talk" and deep breathing into your routine.
- If you are a long-boarder, please practice x-stepping on land and nose-riding in the water; those two simple techniques applied in combination will get you through heats.
- If you are a short-boarder, become friends with a wider, flatter, SoCal short-board (beg, borrow or buy used). Bogging at Church's won't be much fun unless, of course, your plan is to play hooky at Lowers.
- Buddy up and work on these together. If you do, we will send a squad to the finals this year.
Please note that I have the SCSSL T-shirts from the Manresa comp for any surfers who haven't received one. Track me down and I will keep a few in the truck and at home.
Have a productive and fun break. I will be sending out links to forms for States separately soon.
Coach Mike
TedXUTK - Special Needs Surfing | University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleSubmitted by okeeton on Thu, 2015-03-26 19:52
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High School Free Surf 6:45am Thursday 3.26.15 Kelly StreetSubmitted by mphelps on Wed, 2015-03-25 21:08
High School Surfers,
Conditions are looking promising for dawn patrol before school.
See you in the AM!
Marty and Oliver

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Something's wrong. Something's missing. You just sense that watching the New Jersey Nets labor through this season. Given what we've seen in Indiana and Detroit, you also have to wonder if the Nets have what it takes to even get to the Eastern Conference finals, let alone a third straight appearance (and third straight loss) in the NBA Finals.
It's been a weird year in the swamps, made all the more weirder with the firing of Byron Scott and hiring of unknown Lawrence Frank and the news that a businessman who wants to move the team to Brooklyn is its new owner. For that, we say, hurrah! Getting the Nets out of that horrible, white elephant on I-95, with parking lots harder to navigate than the streets of Boston during the Big Dig, is a major plus.
But the basketball tenants of that dreadful building still have to play there for a while. They've been a very good team there -- until this year. They were 33-8 in the Meadowlands last season. They've already lost there eight times this season -- and they still have 20 games left to play there. Attendance, never a big factor, is terrible.
Through 42 games, the Nets are a just-above-sea-level 22-20. At this point last year, they were 28-14. The year before, they were 29-13. And their next four games are on the road, although the next two opponents are Eastern, sub-.500 teams.
Last week, the Nets were licking their wounds after getting beaten up in Texas on consecutive nights by the Mavericks and Spurs. No crime there; it happens to just about every Eastern Conference team. (The Nets have to do a U-turn this weekend to go back to Houston, the day before the Super Bowl.) But the latest loss was the team's fourth in a row -- the second time this season it has had a four-game losing streak. In the previous two years, they had only two losing streaks of that length -- and none any longer.
No one should be shocked that the Nets have settled into a state of mediocre bliss -- at 22-20, they still lead the otherwise pathetic Atlantic Division and are the only team in the division with a record above .500. All the signs were there at the start of the season -- and a few more have developed along the way.
Let's start with an obvious one: ennui. The Nets may be the Eastern Conference version of the Lakers in that they know what to do, how to do it, and may possibly have come to the point where the regular season utterly bores them. We saw signs of that last year, when they slipped from 52 to 49 wins, ceding the conference's homecourt advantage to Detroit. They still swept the Pistons in the conference finals because they know how to play when the stakes are the highest.
So maybe they're bored. Who can blame them? Lurking inside most of these guys is a "been there, done that" mentality. The key players from their two previous teams are still there. They know what lies ahead -- and they know they have not lost a playoff series to any of the other conference pretenders. They know that if Jason Kidd is healthy and ready, they have as good a chance as anyone.
They also might be tired, which goes hand-in-hand with ennui. Kidd, Richard Jefferson and Kenyon Martin all played this past summer on the Olympic qualifying team in Puerto Rico. That was a month-long commitment and Kidd was not himself during the tournament. No one played big minutes, but the team's top three offensive players (and two of the league's best defensive players) were practicing and playing at a time when a lot of others were chillin' or playing golf.
Not giving Scott an extension was harder to understand. Unless, of course, the intention all along was to give the guy enough rope to hang himself. Scott won two conference titles but had no contract beyond this season. (Then again, neither does Phil Jackson.) Most teams don't want their coaches to be lame ducks, unless they want them to be dead ducks. It sent conflicting signals to the coach and, by extension, to the players he has to coach.
Injuries have hit the Nets harder this year than in the last couple of years. Two years ago, in their run to the Finals, the Nets' main players were healthy from beginning to end, save for Todd MacCulloch. Last year, Dikembe Mutombo was the major injury -- and the Nets proved not to miss him at all. This year, Jefferson and Kerry Kittles are the only Nets to have not missed a game while rotation reserves Aaron Williams, Rodney Rogers and Lucious Harris have missed 35 games. Martin has missed seven games.
Then there's Alonzo Mourning. He signed with Nets to play with Kidd and got his wish for a month. While he was not the same player he used to be, he was expected to give the Nets a degree of toughness and intensity that, come playoff time, might be enough to get them over the proverbial hump. He says he's retired, but he also has had a kidney transplant and he's only 33 (34 next month.) He has played only 96 games in the last 3½ years.
Out went Alonzo and in came Eddie Griffin, a most revealing personnel decision. When the Nets drafted Griffin in 2001, they had no intention of keeping him. They wanted nothing to do with him, having seen his tired act at Seton Hall. He was drafted solely for the purpose of trading him to Houston, which is what happened. Now, two years later, they suddenly like the guy? The same guy who since then has piled up a couple of, shall we say, legal transgressions? What's up with that?
Now, they may be moving to Brooklyn, which is not nearly as imminent (or automatic) as it sounds. There's land to be taken, train tracks to be moved, city officials to be, er, persuaded. It's a few years away at the minimum.
Until then, it's the New Jersey Nets, your Eastern Conference champion New Jersey Nets. They have one thing going for them that no one else does: a sense of being there, a sense of entitlement, a sense of (false?) security that only comes from experience and success. But it's a tightrope act to fall back on all those things -- because there's always someone ready, willing and, this time, able to knock you off.
They're still the champs until someone else displaces them. Right now, however, they look eminently displaceable.
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Feds investigating a Saudi compound in Virginia for possible human trafficking
Two women said they were mistreated at a Saudi-owned house.
SARS-like coronavirus has killed five in Saudi Arabia
Five Saudis have died after they became ill with a SARS-like novel coronavirus, while two more people are seriously ill.
Doing nothing is Obama's best option in Syria
Commentary: Islamists among the rebels pose a danger to the Middle East if Assad falls.
Foreign firms face difficulties tapping into Middle East
Red tape and a cascade of other hurdles have hindered efforts by executives to tap into rapid growth in the region.
Oldest man in Saudi Arabia dead at 120
The man left behind 24 children and 447 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Omar Borkan Al Gala too sexy for Saudi Arabia?
Newspaper claims to have identified one of three men kicked out of Saudi Arabia for being too handsome.
Saudi government to citizens: don't believe foreign weather reports
"Individuals shouldn't take any notice of such reports no matter how credible the sources are."
Repression of Grand Prix protesters highlights shameful support of Bahrain
Commentary: Shia majority badly treated by Sunni monarchy and its US financers.
Keystone pipeline will not increase US energy security
Commentary: Global markets will continue to control gas prices at the pump.
Saudi Arabia denies reports of paralysis sentencing
Saudi Arabia's Justice Ministry attempts to set the record straight via Twitter.
Saudi youth accused of paralyzing friend to be paralyzed in return: Reports
A young man imprisoned for reportedly paralyzing someone is sentenced to full paralysis at the hand of Saudi authorities.
Human trafficking a growing concern in Yemen: Minister
Yemen a vital transit link for traffickers moving between Africa and Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia: 18 suspected spies arrested
Saudi Arabian officials said today that they had arrested 18 people – an Iranian, a Lebanese citizen and 16 Saudis – for spying on the kingdom for a foreign country.
Syrian civil war enters third year of conflict (PHOTOS)
March 15, 2013, marks the beginning of the third year of violence continues in Syria during the country's civil war.
Shia Muslims in Saudi Arabia keep the protest movement alive
Though illegal in the kingdom, open dissent is alive and well in Qatif.
What was Biden signaling in his pro-war comments on Iran to Israeli lobby?
Commentary: Is the vice president building his own hardline bona fides for 2016?
Saudi youth fighting against Assad regime in Syria
GlobalPost has learned that hundreds of young Saudis are flocking to Syria in a 'holy war' against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Forbes publishes huge takedown of Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed
A lower ranking from the Forbes list enraged one of the Middle East's most successful investors, prompting a stern reply from the publication.
Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed claims Forbes understates his wealth
Prince Alwaleed says that he has more money than the $20 billion he's credited with in the 2013 Forbes list of the planet's wealthiest people.
Pakistan: Sectarian violence threatens elections
Some Pakistani Shiites say martial law is the only thing that can stem the terrorist tide.
The biggest infrastructure projects of 2013
A construction slowdown has set the stage for some creative financing of the projects that make our cities go.
Saudi Arabia arming Syrian rebels with Croatian weapons: report
Officials tell The New York Times that Saudi Arabia has been sending weapons to Syrian rebels since December.
Hookahs, hash and the Muslim Brotherhood
Millions of Egyptians get stoned regularly, despite — or is it because of? — the conservative Islamic government.
In North Korea and Middle East, US should rework failed policies
Commentary: New strategies are needed to counter a new and threatening reality.
Saudi health officials sacked after girl given HIV-tainted blood
Seven health officials in Saudi Arabia have been sacked after a girl was given HIV-tainted blood in a transfusion.
Syria aid effort: Why more money isn't necessarily good news
Where does all the international aid go? Mostly to government-controlled areas.
Female retail workers in Saudi Arabia to be separated from male colleagues by a wall
Authorities dictate Saudi Arabia shops must construct a wall over 5 feet tall to separate male and female workers.
Al-Qaeda second-in-command Said al-Shihri killed in Yemen
After several false reports of his death, AQAP's second-in-command, Said al-Shihri, may have finally been killed by a "joint US-Yemeni" operation late last year.
Saudi Arabia to give $100 million to Palestinian Authority
Saudi Arabia will give the Palestinian government $100 million to help with a budget crisis.
Clerics in Saudi Arabia come out to protest appointment of women to Shura Council (VIDEO)
Hardline clerics claim that women's appointment to Saudi Arabia Council is a "dangerous change."
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CREW Report: They'd Like to Buy the World with Koch
Companies closely tied to donors who fund the Koch brothers' political network spent at least $35 million lobbying the federal government in 2014, according to new research by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The actual number is almost certainly much higher as most of the members of the Koch network remain secret.
The political network spearheaded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch has spent hundreds of millions over the last several years, and the network's donors plan to collectively spend close to $1 billion before Election Day 2016. Many of these donors represent major companies with significant interests before the federal government. At least 22 companies with ties to the network, including Koch Industries, have a lobbying presence in Washington, DC. Combined, the companies spent more on lobbying in 2014 than all but two special interests, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Realtors.
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My number one rule for resolutions: They must be realistic. These simple swaps fit the bill.
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Eat More Healthy Fat
Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs)—found in olive oil, avocados and nuts—may help prevent visceral (belly) fat, a kind that can trigger inflammation and put you at risk for diabetes and cancer. One study found that people who got roughly 25 percent of their daily calories from MUFAs gained no visceral fat, while those who ate fewer MUFAs and more carbs added the dangerous fat to their midsections.
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Walk It Off
You don't need a gym to get an energizing workout. Simply walking in nature can significantly boost your self-esteem and mood, according to one study.
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Go Red
If you want to put an end to "I can't believe I ate all that," reconsider the color of your dishes. A 2012 study found that people consumed less snack food when they used red plates as opposed to blue or white. Researchers think this may be because we subconsciously associate the color red with stopping.
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Get the Right Amount of Sleep
Too little shut-eye (less than five hours) or too much (more than nine) may put you at risk for heart trouble. Short sleep sessions raise levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin, which is linked to increased calorie intake and could, over time, contribute to cardiovascular problems. Sleeping too much may lead to low levels of exercise—another risk factor for heart disease.
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A study in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy found that people who had sex an average of 12 times per month had greater heart rate variability (HRV), a measure of how well the heart responds to subtle changes (like standing versus sitting). Higher HRV is a good thing; it may lower your risk of developing heart problems.
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