The Wipeout Weekly - Surf Podcast

Holiday Surf Snack #1 is a quick, festive thought experiment: if you could wish for one surf-related gift this season, what would it be?

Sunday Surf Poem has arrived—and this week, it rhymes. Today's poem is Surf-Boarding by Marion Strobel, a fiction writer, critic, and poet who served as an associate editor of Poetry magazine in the early 20th century. Was she a surfer? Hard to say. But either way, she's done a decent job. It certainly sounds like surfing.

We've been reading about Kai Lenny charging Mullaghmore, but at The Wipeout Weekly we tend to prefer waves that aren't actively trying to kill us. So instead, we're heading south—to Newquay, Cornwall, the UK's surf capital. In this episode, we talk about why Newquay became the heart of British surfing, what makes its coastline so reliable, when the best waves actually arrive, and how cold is really too cold.

Surf buddies. You love them, you loathe them, and you can't quite surf without them. In this episode of Hey Zuz, I'm Confused, we tackle a familiar question: is surfing secretly competitive—and what do you do when your surf buddy starts feeling more like a rival than a teammate?

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.