The Wipeout Weekly - Surf Podcast

The final Holiday Surf Snack #14 closes with a Sunday Surf Poem from the early '60s that captures why it's so easy to fall in love with surfing.

Our Holiday Surf Snack #13 is all about surfers' ultimate bucket list waves. What's yours?

Holiday Surf Snack #12 in the style of Hey Zuz, I'm confused —what if you didn't surf last year?—and why that doesn't mean anything about the future.

In our Holiday Surf Snack #11, we share beginner "wisdom" from big wave rider Laird Hamilton on what it really takes to start surfing. And when we say "wisdom", we mean "some uncomfortable truths".

A New Year's Eve Surf Snack #10 questioning the idea that beginners should only wear black wetsuits—and what color psychology might actually have to do with surfing.

Holiday Surf Snack #9 is exploring surfboard tail shapes, where their names come from, and how tails affect speed, hold, and turning.

Holiday Surf Snack #8 with a deliberately short list of must-read surf books, because you should probably just go surfing instead.

Holiday Surf Snack #6 is on the biggest waves ever surfed, why no one agrees on the numbers, and why Nazaré keeps rewriting the record books.

A Boxing Day Surf Snack #5 in the style of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? , testing your surf trivia knowledge from goofy foot to Teahupoʻo. A lot of Teahupoʻo.

A festive Holiday Surf Snack #4 on Makahiki, the ancient Hawaiian season of peace and abundance that quietly overlaps with Christmas.

A rapid-fire Holiday Surf Snack #3 is packed with ocean facts, surf history, surf trivia, and just enough "wisdom" to make you the most fascinating person at the Christmas party.

Holiday Surf Snack #2 is a quick walk through my favorite picks from the Wee Surf Shoppe—for last-minute gifting, browsing, or pure surf-stuff inspiration.

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  real...

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 f...

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.

Uluwatu is one of surfing's most mythic destinations—towering cliffs, temple views, endless lefts, and a reef that has shaped generations of surf wanderlust. This episode walks you through Ulu's origins, its legendary sections like Outside Corner and Racetrack, its discovery in the early '70s, and its place in surf culture today.

Every beginner hits this crossroads eventually: should I downsize my surfboard… and how do I even know if I'm ready? This week's we tackle the eternal question of how to figure out what a smaller board will actually give you. Turns out, the answer isn't universal—but it is deeply personal.

Surf news is taking us on a full lap around the globe this week—from a 13-year-old charging Nazaré, to a luxury Kelly Slater wave pool in the desert, to a lone surfer surrounded by 500 sharks in Australia. We're also looking at two Hawaii teens reshaping school surfing, and the growing South American movement to legally protect waves as cultural and ecological treasures.

Matt Warshaw Appreciation Week continues with a confession: I'm finally reading Maverick's —with an apostrophe—and I'm already obsessed. Today I share my favorite story (so far) from the book's legendary opening chapters.