Operation Amped Foundation

Operation Amped Foundation military veterans and their families.

Operation Amped’s mission is: To share the “stoke” of the surfing community and the healing potential of surfing with seriously ill, injured, and or disabled U.S.

Thank you to all who made Operation Amped’s One-Day Surf Camp with Rocky McKinnon a success TODAY! 🏄‍♂️ Our participants...
07/25/2025

Thank you to all who made Operation Amped’s One-Day Surf Camp with Rocky McKinnon a success TODAY! 🏄‍♂️ Our participants felt the healing power of surfing with pro surfer Rocky McKinnon. Gratitude for the premium lessons, adaptive gear, and epic vibes! 🌊📍 Huntington Beach Learn more at operationamped.org.

Operation Amped’s mission is to share the “stoke” of the surfing community and the healing potential of surfing with seriously ill, injured, and or disabled U.S. military veterans and their families.

Camp Pendleton, 3-day event, 2024. Everyone is STOKED!
09/21/2024

Camp Pendleton, 3-day event, 2024. Everyone is STOKED!

04/29/2024

This is a picture of Standing Holy, who is listed as Sitting Bull's daughter. It brings to mind the traditional Oceti Ŝakowiŋ style of parenting. The first time that Sitting Bull traveled and observed non-Native people spanking their children, he was shocked.
There was never a need to continually scold a child, belittle them, or strike them. They cuddled their children from birth to about seven because they believed crying wasn't good for children.
Often, if a child did not stop crying, some grandmothers would cry along with them to help them get over whatever had made them sad.
At an early age, they begin to take on the responsibility of their clothing and bedding. Our people traveled with the buffalo and had to be mobile. By the age of 10, most of our children knew how to take care of the materials needed for travel.
Love, teaching, structure, and community raised our children.
Colonization tells us that physical discipline helps shape our children and turn our boys into men. Yet, without ever being spanked, we produced the greatest warriors that ever walked this land.
Our lifeways and ceremonies through the different stages of life were more valuable than anything colonization offered.

04/29/2024

We were told we would see America come and go. In a sense, America dies from the inside out, because they have forgotten the instructions to live on Mother Earth. This is the Hopi creed, it is our creed, that if you are not spiritually connected to the Earth, and you don't understand the spiritual reality of life on Earth, chances are you are not going to make it.
Everything is spiritual, everything has one
Spirit.
We are here on Earth only a few winters, then we go to the spirit world. The spirit world is more real than most of us realize.
The spirit world is everything. Most of our body is water. To stay healthy you need to drink pure water. Water is sacred, air is sacred. Our DNA is made from the same DNA as the tree, the tree breathes what we breathe out, we need what the tree expires. So we have a common fate with the tree. We are all of the Earth, and when the Earth and its water and atmosphere are corrupted, then the Earth will create her reaction. The Mother reacts.
In the Hopi prophecy it says that storms and floods will get bigger.
For me it is not negative to know that there will be big changes. It's not negative, it's evolution. When you look at it as an Evolution, you know it's time, nothing stays the same. You should learn to plant something. This is the first connection. You should look at all things as Spirit, realize that we are family. It never ends. Everything is life and there is no end to life.
🌹🐎🌵🦅🤍🐺
- Floyd " Red Crow " Westerman, musician, actor and activist native of South Dakota

04/29/2024

Portrait of Chief He Dog, of the Oglala Lakota, 1900.

04/29/2024

Iron Thunder, Crow Eagle, Fool Thunder, Slow White Buffalo, all holding peace pipes, Dakota, circa 1880s.

Throwback to 2011 when we were featured in Surfer magazine!
10/18/2022

Throwback to 2011 when we were featured in Surfer magazine!

Our Board of Directors doing some much needed trailer maintenance and clean up. Getting ready for a 2022 summer season, ...
01/30/2022

Our Board of Directors doing some much needed trailer maintenance and clean up. Getting ready for a 2022 summer season, we hope!

All briefed and ready to hit the water!!! Off we go….
09/25/2021

All briefed and ready to hit the water!!! Off we go….

09/24/2021

We’re gearing up for our 14th annual Camp Pendleton weekend! Due to COVID restriction we were limited in the amount of people we could have this year. But, we’re stoked the base approved us at all. Pictures to follow, but first the set up. 🏄🌊

June 11th Huntington Beach: Our event was a great success! Weather was awesome and everyone rode a wave and left stoked....
06/15/2021

June 11th Huntington Beach: Our event was a great success! Weather was awesome and everyone rode a wave and left stoked. We were able to dedicate a surfboard in John W Shelton’s memory. His niece, the logo designer, and family were on hand to see the board surfed for the first time.

Special thanks to Rocky McKinnon for shaping the board and providing great instruction for our participants.
Also to Mama’s on 39 for the awesome lunch.

www.operationamped.org
www.mamason39.com
www.mckinnonsurfandsuplessons.com
www.mckinnonsurfboards.com

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Redondo Beach, CA

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