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MAGIC BUZZ

A Surf Story detailing my first trip and experience down to The Wedge in Newport Beach on 6/9/26.

Swell of the Decade, so they’ve been saying. Is that true? What was the last swell that was this hyped, and then actually lived up to that? Hurricane Marie? I can not believe it’s been 12 years since then. I’ve been surfing for almost 20 years and boogie boarding as a grom before that, my […]

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THE PROVING GROUNDS

A recap of the first WSL Challenger Series Event at the Banzai Pipeline, on the North Shore of Oahu - widely considered the Mecca, and the Proving Grounds in all of surfing.

They don’t call it “The Mecca Of Surfing” for no reason. Pipeline absolutely roared for the first ever Challenger Series event there, and wow – it was fantastic viewing. For some reason or another, this feels like a tone setter for the rest of the year for the WSL; as if there is a hint […]