Kassia Meador’s Surf Diary Is Your Summer Dream Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Itoi Yoshitaka1/9“Here I’m surfing Malibu with my really good friends Jared [Mell] and Dane [Peterson]. First Point in Malibu is one of those places time forgot—it’s also home to one of the most perfect, peeling right-hand point breaks in the world.”
Photo: Courtesy of Kassia Meador2/9“Beach hangs are my favorite. I had a bunch of friends in town and we were having an epic day at one of my favorite secret Malibu spots. It’s a family beach where you can bring dogs, which I love. We spent half of our time building a fort so we could hang out comfortably, and half of the time in the water.”
Photo: Courtesy of Kassia Meador3/9“This beautiful little six-foot-two-inch single fin made by my great friends Shannon Lindsey and Jered Hein. It’s the most sustainable surfboard [I know of]. They take broken boards—as many as six or seven—that they find or are donated to them, and then glass them with resin that’s going to get thrown away. It’s taking trash out of landfills and turning them into a board—that’s why it’s called Frankenhein. I am so proud to walk down the beach with it. I got a sick little barrel on it that day.”
Photo: Courtesy of Itoi Yoshitaka4/9“Nose riding is the quintessential move on a longboard. It’s the closest I’ve ever come to flying. You’re totally present in that moment. Meditation is something I love about surfing. Tuning everything out and just being there.”
Photo: Courtesy of Kassia Meador5/9“For the Fourth of July, I went up to Yosemite with Nick [Fouquet] to these glacial lakes for a few days. It was magical up there. I love fireworks, but it was nice to be in such a beautiful, still, quiet location.”
Photo: Courtesy of Kassia Meador6/9“Here, we were back in Venice at a ceramics studio that I go to, making some Palo Santo candles with surf wax. I am about to put out a small line of candles that [can be used] as teacups after you burn them. That’s my dong Iruka—I got her on my first ever trip to Japan from the people who own the surf shop Dolphin. Iruka means “dolphin” in Japanese. She’s the best.”
Photo: Courtesy of Kassia Meador7/9“My buddy Tin Ojeda makes surf movies under the name Tv Dinner Motion Pictures, but he used to have a T-shirt company called Drug Money Art. I [went to stay] at his house in Montauk next. He had these alpaca wool sweaters that he had wanted to do stuff with. We dip-dyed them in his backyard, and while the sweaters were drying, we’d catch a few waves at this fun [break] across the street called Polls. It’s down the beach from Ditch Plains.”
Photo: Courtesy of Kassia Meador8/9“I was eating such great food the whole time I was in Montauk. Tin is into the Argentinian chef, Francis Mallmann, who uses the old style of burying food [in embers] to let it cook—making five-star meals out of a pit in the ground. So Tin buried the vegetables [in his backyard], cooking them in the ashes for a while. It was such a beautiful meal.”
Photo: Courtesy of Kassia Meador9/9“That was one of my last nights in [the Hamptons]. It was one of those nights when we had a lovely dinner and were out at the point watching the moon come up. The mood of that photo wraps up how cozy you are after a full day at the ocean and a great meal with good friends.”
