Surfing LA

Man with total surfing experience of eleven minutes now confidently offering unsolicited advice to fellow first-timers PISMO BEACH — Local first-time surfer Gregory Halbrook successfully stood up on a wave for

Master craftsman’s meticulous handmade process has produced boards so anticipated some buyers no longer remember ordering them VENTURA — Renowned local shaper Ernesto Villaverde’s famously exhaustive custom board process has produced

Local surfers increasingly skeptical of app’s grading scale after repeated “epic” alerts produce distinctly non-epic actual waves OCEANSIDE — A popular surf forecasting app’s “epic conditions” push notification has once again

Competing dogs demonstrate technically superior wave selection but reportedly lack the retriever’s “star quality” PACIFICA — A golden retriever named Biscuit has won her third consecutive World Dog Surfing Championship despite

Recent transplant from Sacramento has fully absorbed and now aggressively enforces rules he didn’t know existed two months ago HUNTINGTON BEACH — Local surf shop employee and six-week Huntington Beach resident

Huntington Beach visitor reports fullest possible experience of the world’s largest surf competition despite never once looking at the ocean HUNTINGTON BEACH — Local attendee Brenda Kowalczyk has attended all three

Twelve years behind the counter has produced an almost supernatural ability to read a customer before he’s said a single word SAN CLEMENTE — Surf shop veteran Marcus Delgado has correctly

New guidelines suggest merely enjoying surfing “occasionally and without excessive branding” may not satisfy state requirements SACRAMENTO — The California Surfing Day planning committee has released updated guidelines suggesting residents “fully

Local surfer’s stretching, chanting, and specific sequence of wax application shows zero correlation with ride quality, according to nobody who asked ENCINITAS — Local surfer Kyle Ferrante has performed the same

Windansea veteran deploys forty-five minutes of pointed silence and superior positioning rather than actual words LA JOLLA — Longtime Windansea local Chad Brennerman successfully repelled a visiting surfer from Ohio on

Territorial dispute erupts between beach engineering team and local lineup over shoreline access LONG BEACH — As city crews raced to build large sand berms along the shoreline ahead of an

Beach elder’s oral tradition of a hotter, more legendary summer remains scientifically unverified SEAL BEACH — As Southern California endures a heat wave forecasters describe as unusually persistent, with inland temperatures

Union files grievance after third TikTok star needed saving from a “aesthetic” wave NEWPORT BEACH — Los Angeles County lifeguards have filed a formal grievance this week demanding a new hazard

Bureaucrats propose “Spectator Density Ordinance” after a thousand people showed up to watch waves hit a wall NEWPORT BEACH — When nearly a thousand onlookers packed the sand at The Wedge

Witnesses confirm wave has doubled in size with every pitcher of beer since Tuesday HUNTINGTON BEACH — Local surfer J.T. Mercer went into the water Tuesday afternoon and, by his own

Beach hazard statement extended through the weekend as officials note the obvious, again SAN DIEGO — The National Weather Service on Thursday extended its beach hazard statement through the weekend, warning

Fourteen-year-old entrepreneur cites “supply and demand” as inland temperatures crest triple digits HERMOSA BEACH — As Southern California endures what forecasters are calling an unusually persistent stretch of extreme heat, with

Two to three saves per shift reframed as “high-throughput crisis management” in competitive job market MANHATTAN BEACH — With Los Angeles County lifeguards averaging two to three water rescues per shift

Surf forecast Discord server organizes welcome party for storm that will remain offshore OCEANSIDE — By the time Post-Tropical Elida had weakened into a remnant low pressure system drifting harmlessly toward

Rival forecasting site claims competitor is “willing storms into existence via vibes alone” SAN CLEMENTE — A long-simmering rivalry between two competing Southern California surf-forecasting outlets boiled over this week after