Surf Tales: About Water, People and Surfing

Twelve fairy-tale novellas created based on surfing stories, mythology, incidents, and the author’s direct observations and personal sensations—poet and surfer—offer readers a genuine picture of the surfing world. Not fashionable pictures from glossy magazine covers, but a deep, mystical world that enriches everyone involved with the ability to empathize and be amazed, the ability to slip into the movement of life. The tales answer the question—why people go back to the ocean again and again and catch wave after wave on fragile boards.

The main character of all twelve tales is water—despite the fact that these stories are about people with their ambiguous histories and destinies.

Water—always so different, powerful, eternal, and patient toward humans—is an element that unites the world, washes over and sharpens feelings and thoughts. With or under the pressure of the element of Water, the heroes of the tales overcome, above all, themselves—and thereby find unity with space, becoming its full-fledged part.

They overcome fear, loneliness, weakness, pride, hurt feelings, inability to believe in a dream, inability to delight in beauty, and spiritual blindness of the heart. Surfing, contrary to common belief, is not a way to control a board on the water, but the search for unity with nature and harmony. When you hear the element, when you can feel yourself as part of it—its tiny cell, being inside it, becoming equal to it—you learn how to live.

This is what the “Surf Tales” are about.