"Known for their massive waves that can get as high as 60-feet. This is a bucket-list location for most surfers."
If there is one thing sports fans crave more than touchdowns or home runs, it is the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. The annual release features women in bikinis on beaches though those beaches change from year to year. Sometimes, say, Mexico is featured. Other times, the Bahamas are front and center. Very sexy but only marginally sexier than Sports Illustrated’s somewhat annual “The Ultimate Surf Spots for Beginners and Pros Alike” list.
“These are the 11 best locations for surfing in the United States with options that cater to both beginners and experienced riders,” the feature begins, sports fans salivating at home, hiding with computers in closets.
This year, we have Oahu’s North Shore, a fine surf spot and deserving of the top slot, followed by Malibu (California), South Padre Island (Texas), Montauk (New York), Outer Banks (North Carolina), Huntington Beach (California), Cocoa Beach (Florida), Yakutat (Alaska), Narragansett (Rhode Island), Otter Rock (Oregon) and Mavericks (California).
The giant surf spot just south of San Francisco has claimed the life of many heroes though, per the suggestion, beginners are invited to die as well.
“Known for their massive waves that can get as high as 60-feet,” author and guide Dylan Sanders writes. “This is a bucket-list location for most surfers.”
Sanders, who looks like this…
…also explained, “There was a movie made about them and the journey to being able to surf them.”
Over to you, now. As very likely somewhere between “beginner” and “pro” do you dream of Mavericks or is it purely an either/or wave?
Zuck would go.
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You can definitely kick the bucket there, dunno about bucket list
Sports illustrated is gross..
a must for Rainbow Surf Retreats.
After all, are gay surfers not Mavericks of our sport?
On another note I think the CT has seen the last of Jacob Willcox and Bront McCauley , get a real job time for those two.
Real estate is going off in margs.
Poor Jake only got half a season on the CT
So how would we rank surf blogs/vlogs/websites, starting with beginners?
1. Inertia
2. Surfline
3. This is Livin
4. Surfermag
Help me out, folks. And I guess the key Q is where does BG live on the list? Or on some other list entirely, since it really doesn’t deal with surfing, at least much. Maybe a list for sexually ambivalent real estate political click bait b/c the proprietors are lazy fucks and farm out their profit model to upper aged men with no lives websites?
I live in hope the grit ,never becomes cool , the word “Cunt” remains offensive and the WSL hates our guts , as do all the surf adjacent hanger-ons and woke cunt VALS ..but i doubt it as i sense the rot is already setting in , ie you know who you are you political loving nationalistic equality cunts fuck of and wave your flags and banners and drop your knees and raise a fist in the mainstream media where it belongs , long live stupid surfing long live board design , long live live commentary and FTWSL.
WHOISJOB!
You think this Dylan Sanders guy knows Emily Morgan though?
guessing they both love the TN mountains
He Dreams of electric sheep, and Velcro gloves
Sports Artificiallistrated
Perfect spot for olympic competition.