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Greg Long

@gerglong

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Just one of the 8 billion human family members. Doing my best to enjoy life and care for this magical planet we call home along the way. 🌊✌🏽💛🌎 ✨.

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Greg had been hunting one like this for a while. Evidently perseverance pays 👌⁣
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a year ago

Just another conquistador of the useless.

Isla Todos Santos 1/11/21

Photo: @nuttynulty taken in Isla Todos Santos by @gerglong

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6 years ago

A distant desert dream.

Video: @javier.goya by @gerglong

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There are a few spot spots left and only a couple of days remaining to register for the Santa Cruz, CA Surf Responder & Ocean Safety Summit! If you’ve been planning to join this training, now is the time to sign up! Must register online - link in bio.

Whether you’re preparing for a surf trip, looking to build confidence in the water, or ready to become a stronger asset in any lineup, now is the time to train with BWRAG.

Surf Responder & Ocean Safety Summits are two-day, hands-on trainings designed for surfers and ocean enthusiasts of all backgrounds and experience levels. Curriculum includes ocean risk management, CPR/AED, first aid, emergency action planning, spot analysis, safety equipment, apnea training, and water rescue techniques.

Upcoming Course Dates:

- September 25: Chicama, Peru 🇵🇪
Community Ocean Safety training

- October 3–4: Santa Cruz, California 🇺🇸
Surf Responder & Ocean Safety Summit

- November 7–8: Oahu, Hawaii 🇺🇸
Surf Responder & Ocean Safety Summit

Registration, applications, and course details are available through the link in our bio.

Sponsored by @patagonia @patagonia_surf

Education. Preparedness. Community. by @gerglong

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***🚨 UPCOMING 2026 COURSE SCHEDULE 🚨***

Whether you’re preparing for a surf trip, looking to build confidence in the water, or ready to become a stronger asset in any lineup, now is the time to train with BWRAG.

Surf Responder & Ocean Safety Summits are two-day, hands-on trainings designed for surfers and ocean enthusiasts of all backgrounds and experience levels. Curriculum includes ocean risk management, CPR/AED, first aid, emergency action planning, spot analysis, safety equipment, apnea training, and water rescue techniques.

Upcoming Course Dates:

- September 25: Chicama, Peru 🇵🇪
Community Ocean Safety training

- October 3–4: Santa Cruz, California 🇺🇸
Surf Responder & Ocean Safety Summit

- November 7–8: Oahu, Hawaii 🇺🇸
Surf Responder & Ocean Safety Summit

Registration, applications, and course details are available through the link in our bio.

Sponsored by @patagonia @patagonia_surf

Education. Preparedness. Community. by @gerglong

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Been burnin at both ends but damn if it wasn’t a fun month of traveling, teaching, waves, working, laughing, music, dancing, surfing, sunrises, sunsets and having a hell of time. Big luv to all who have shared a moment in the whirlwind. Into September we spin. Hope to catch ya out there in the magic. 🌪️ 🕺🏽 by @gerglong

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@gerglong wave last winter at the @thrilleratkillers
Got the unicorn. 🦄 taken in Isla Todos Santos by @gerglong

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One of the most iconic rides in Dungeons history - a perfect 10 awarded for @gerglong in the final of the 2008 Red Bull BWA ⚡️

📸 @craigkolesky taken in Hout Bay, Western Cape, South Africa by @gerglong

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One of the greatest measures of success for any educational program is when the students become the teachers.

Last month, the @b.w.r.a.g team partnered with @bencarlson_foundation, the Puerto Escondido surf community, and @amisurfpxm to develop a localized surf instructor curriculum built for the unique waves, hazards, and culture of the Oaxaca coastline, and provide training equipment to support continued education. Our goal was not simply to teach another course, but to create something the community could truly own.

We spent the first week training 25 local surfers, lifeguards, and community leaders to become instructors themselves. They immediately put that training into action, leading the program and certifying more than 250 local surf coaches over the next seven days.

Watching these newly trained instructors stand before their peers, sharing lessons shaped by their own experience, local knowledge, and deep connection to the coastline, was one of the most rewarding parts of the project. It marked the beginning of something far greater than a successful course: a community-led program built to endure.

And this is only the beginning.

The curriculum is now in the hands of the community, with plans to bring it to surf towns throughout Oaxaca. The result is a sustainable, locally led education program that will continue strengthening coastal communities and making the ocean safer for years to come.

This project would not have been possible without the incredible support of @bencarlson_foundation and its commitment to water safety education and empowering coastal communities.

Above all, we are deeply grateful to the local instructors, lifeguards, and surf community who embraced this program with such dedication.

When Brian Keaulana, BWRAG’s original mentor, first shared this knowledge with us, he asked for one promise: “share the knowledge.” The Puerto Escondido community honored that promise in the most meaningful way imaginable.

Thank you for your trust, your willingness to learn, and your commitment to making the ocean safer for everyone. 🙏 🤙 🌊

Video by @moralesedwin taken in Puerto Escondido by @gerglong

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The ocean is never standing still. Every swell, current, tide, and grain of sand plays a role in shaping the coastline, often in ways that aren’t immediately visible. The better we understand those relationships, the better equipped we are to protect the places we love.

Rather than simply watching those changes unfold, the Puerto Escondido surf community has chosen to understand them. By funding their own bathymetric study, they’re investing in knowledge, mapping the seafloor to better understand how sand, currents, and coastal development shape one of the world’s most extraordinary waves. To all those who donated to the fundraiser and made this study possible, thank you!

Their devotion to protecting not just the wave but their home is something to admire.

When the marina jetty was built in 2000, it interrupted a natural rhythm that had existed for generations, altering the movement of sand and, with it, the character of the wave at Zicatela. Yet nature has an incredible memory. After a portion of the jetty was removed, only a couple big swells were enough to begin guiding the sand back toward its natural state. A quiet but powerful reminder of the resilience of the natural world when given the chance to heal.

The ocean has always lived by a simple truth: every action creates a reaction.

The more we understand these delicate systems, the more humbled we become by our place within them. We are not separate from nature, we are participants in it. And our responsibility is not to control it, but to learn from it, protect it, and live in harmony with its rhythms.

Much love and respect to the community of Puerto Escondido for leading by example and reminding us of the responsibility we all share to care for our home.

@savethewavescoalition
@costaunidaoax
@amisurfpxm
@reservamundialdesurfpxm taken in Playa Zicatela, Puerto Escondido, Oax by @gerglong

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3 months ago

🇲🇽 🐦‍⬛ ✨

Video: @nnm.project taken in Playa Zicatela, Puerto Escondido, Oax by @gerglong

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A few moments to remember a soul satiating trip filled with amazing friends, endless laughter, breathtaking beauty and of course perfect waves.

The days seemed to slow on their own and remind you how rich life can be when shared with good people, the rhythm of the ocean, a warm fire, and a bottle or two of Carmenère.

Mucho amor y gratitud a toda la familia en Chile por su hospitalidad y por hacer siempre sentir a su increíble país como en casa. ❤️ 🇨🇱 by @gerglong

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