I lived at Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz, California for a couple of years (if you had a magnifying glass, you can even see my house in this photo–it’s the one on the seawall closest to the small rock in the middle of the picture).  Every morning at the crack of dawn, the surfers would fill up the street and march in front of the house, heading for the break.  Every evening, the streets will filled with the scent of wet neoprene as they stripped off, changed, and headed home.

Once or twice a year, genuinely internationally famous people would descend on town for surfing events like the Cold Water Classic.  Top-tier surfers would be ripping nearby, and we could watch right from our deck.  Sweet!

But not everybody lives like that (there isn’t room on the seawall, for one thing).  And for those that don’t, and still want to fill their surfer-watching jones even in Kansas, Vans, in cooperation with the streaming media folks at Inlet, has developed an iPhone application for all your shred-watching needs.  The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing app is a live mobile
webcast application that will allow you to watch any action sports event, and is coming out just in time for the Billabong Pipeline Masters.  So if you’ve been missing your insane surfing action, you might want to check it out.