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Big waves are exciting for surfers of any age, and the thrill of riding a solid, perfect overhead barreling liquid cylinder is indescribable. Once you’ve tasted them, you’re a surfer for life – there’s no way back. But what are your thoughts on letting children surf in more or less extreme conditions and waves of…
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The single-fin is the first evolutionary stage of the modern surfboard fin setup. It also revolutionized the way people rode waves. It’s quite surreal, but the early surfboards were finless for quite a while. In the beginning, controlling a long and heavy wooden board was extremely difficult, as it would slide sideways easily. Polynesians would…
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Lower Trestles is the chosen venue to run the surfing program in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. The iconic high-performance surf break located three miles (4.8 kilometers) southeast of San Clemente in California will host surfing’s third consecutive appearance in the Olympics after Tokyo 2020 (Tsurigasaki Beach) and Paris 2024 (Teahupoo). The 2028 Olympic…
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Ben Gravy shreds the land of Rick Kane (Revel Surf Park in Mesa, AZ) in his latest vlog!
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Let’s be honest. If you’re an average working adult with responsibilities, Saturday morning could very well be your only slot available to get some waves. I know that weekend warriors are often deemed as kooks. But, come on, not everyone has free time to chase historical swells whenever they pop and have someone shooting your…
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Burleigh Heads is one of the crown jewels of the Gold Coast of Queensland’s surfing treasury. But what makes this tubular, express train wave such a gem in this part of the world? Someone once said that, when naming towns, Gold Coast authorities missed the real Surfers Paradise by eight miles (13 kilometers). And there…
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It’s the end of an era. On March 31, 2025, a helicopter dismantled the illegal beach hut and associated structures at Lunada Bay in Palos Verdes Estates, California. The operation focused on removing non-native Arundo grass – commonly mistaken for bamboo – and random items such as surfboards, kayaks, barbecues, and chairs that had been…
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There is a new sports equipment item that is conquering the market. It’s called parawing and promises more freedom to foil enthusiasts. When kiteboarding hit the water in the early 2000s and became one of the fastest-growing sports on the planet, it opened a new way of harnessing the power of the wind to ride…
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Nicholas Skaldetvind is not your average surfer. Born and raised in New York, this Italian American holds an M.A. in transnational writing from Stockholm University. His thesis, “The Spontaneous Poetics of Jack Kerouac’s Letters from 1947-1956: Repetition, Language, and Narration,” shaped a bit of who he is today. Words are tools of the mind that…
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Excuse us for the intriguing title. There was no other way to put it better. If you’ve been surfing for a while, you might have already felt this way. Lifelong hobbies are special – they become part of our body and soul. If you have been doing Lego constructions since you were a kid and…