The Wipeout Weekly - Surf Podcast

This week's surf news takes us from preservation to pop culture—and a few places in between. The Encyclopedia of Surfing goes on hiatus as Matt Warshaw shifts full steam ahead into the EOS Archive, a massive, non-commercial effort to preserve surf history before it disappears. Point Break is somehow getting a TV series (yes, really). There's also a shark bite in Northern California—sobering, but firmly in perspective—plus the return of thousands of Surfing Santas in Cocoa Beach. And finally, Texas is getting a $200M surf lagoon, because of course it is.

No better time than the end of the year for a little surfing self-reflection. In this episode, we look at a few of the most common mistakes we make in surfing—especially the ones we keep repeating. From hesitation to expecting progress to arrive neatly and on schedule, we're all guilty of them.

Our movie review segment continues—whoop whoop. Today: Step Into Liquid. The other surf. movie from the 200s.

I don't know how you're feeling this week, but a lot of the world isn't doing great. This episode isn't about fixing anything—it's about whether surfing can help, even a little.

This week's Sunday Surf Poem comes from the mysterious Jack Crawford Jr.—a poet we seemingly know nothing about, despite the poem's 1967 publication. The Surf Rider is vivid, mythic, and a little wild, capturing the gossamer balance between joy and danger in a single ride. Since the poet remains a ghost, we'll let the work speak for itself.