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One of the most crucial decisions faced by a surfer or potential surfer is to choose which board to ride. Your stability, ...

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Taking up surfing as a career or a hobby is a move that requires gut-wrenching hard work to transition from beginner to expert over time. Growing from a full-time catching and riding prone beginner ...

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Costa Rica is filled with stunning surf set-ups, all suitable for the intermediate surfer. But to narrow it down, the country ...

You gotta start somewhere, so the saying goes. Even Kelly Slater, the reigning GOAT of professional surfing, didn’t come hurtling out of the womb and straight onto the podium. And unfortunately, ...

You may have heard of Malcom Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule, but if you haven’t, it’s quite simple: the author and thinker posits that it takes 10,000 hours of “deliberate practice” to become world-class ...

As summer gets closer — and the water warms up — a lot more of you will be heading out to grab some waves. I am not saying that some of you are fair-weather lightweights, or maybe I am, but the fact ...

Professional surfers flock to Hawaii in the winter for the big swells, but the islands are a great place for learning how to surf all year round. Photo Credit: HTA/Daeja Fallas It is a quintessential ...