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Surf is truly where you find it. That’s The Inertia’s guiding light. From high-performance surfing at the world’s most famous breaks, to riding waves in little-known regions of the world on random equipment, we cover surf. Everywhere.

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Kanoa Igarashi and Pedro Coelho Navigating a Gaggle of Supertubos Barrels

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How This Seemingly Simple Creative Risk Changed My Photography

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Arran Strong Hasn’t Let His Battle With Respiratory Disease Slow His Surfing Career

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Kelly Slater gets barreled switch at the Surf Ranch.
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The Latest in Kelly Slater Wizardry: Switch Tube at the Surf Ranch

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Pe’ahi Just Gave Us a Different Kind of Aerial Show on Sunday

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Everything about this situation would have been preferable to the one I experienced. Photo: McLeod/DryRobe
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10 Best (Totally Unnecessary) Surf Accessories Guaranteed to Improve Your Surf Life

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Chris Gallagher Stone has a history of coaching the world's best surfers including, most recently, Jordy Smith. Photo: WSL
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USA Surfing Banks on Coaching Change to Ignite Gold Medal Prospects

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Matt Mohagen, Chad Parks, Damien Fahrenfort, south bay, civic couch, el porto, los angeles, hammerland,
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Chasing Barrels In Los Angeles Isn’t Exactly for the Faint of Heart Right Now

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Keito Matsuoka perfect score at Da Hui Backdoor Shootout
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Keito Matsuoka’s Perfect 12 at the Da Hui Backdoor Shootout Is Absolutely Unbelievable

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Nazare big wave surfing
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New Study Finds Warming Seas Are Creating Much More Powerful Waves

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Plenty of big waves and barrel dodging in Los Angeles last Wednesday. Photo: Porto Surfer
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Heaving Pits (and Lots of Barrel Dodging) From LA’s Crazy Run of Swell Last Week

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The Ocean Opened An Entirely New Dimension of My Photography

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Surfing at Waimea Bay
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Here’s What Happened at Waimea Bay on January 13

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Dylan Graves river surfing in Idaho with Strongwater Mountain Surf Co.'s KB Brown.
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Dylan Graves Gets Schooled in the Finer Points of River Surfing

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Tiger sharks feed on sperm whale near Honolulu.
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This Is What It Looks Like When Tiger Sharks Feast on a Sperm Whale

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foil windsurfing in La Torche, France
Surf

Foil Windsurfing Is a Thing Now

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Outer island secret spot surf
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14 Minutes of Raw, Uncut Footage From an 8-10ft Swell at an ‘Outer Island Secret Spot’

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WIll Rodgers surfing Steve Lis Fish
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This Short Film Is a History Lesson in Surfboards

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surfing watching huge wave in Los Angeles
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Here’s What It Looks Like When Huge Surf Hits Los Angeles

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