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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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Why This Young Expat Chose to Build Her Dreams and Career Abroad

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If you're feeling bad about your surfing after watching how great at surfing dolphins are, just remember that dolphins are TERRIBLE at walking.
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This Is Quite Possibly the Greatest Surfing Dolphin Video You’ve Ever Seen

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When the biggest and best of the year (so far) approached the Wedge, filmer Brent Weldon packed the water housing and flippers and got some of the best footage we've seen of the Wedge.
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The Wedge From the Water: Carnage, Destruction, and (Occasionally) Glory

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Kelly Slater, shown here not on the level he wants and needs to be to compete. Image: Screenshot/Surfer
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Opinion: Admit It, Kelly. You’re Surfing Well Enough to Compete…You’d Just Rather Surf Perfect Waves!

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If you're one of those people who hates longboards with a fiery passion, it's because you don't like having fun. Instead, you like complaining about other people having fun, which isn't very much fun at all.
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Every Surfer Worth Their Salt Knows the Value of Having a Log in the Quiver

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This Is a Lifelong JBay Local’s Experience of the JBU Supertrial

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Was This Weekend’s Cloudbreak Bigger and Better Than 2011?

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Highlights from What Some Are Calling the Biggest Cloudbreak Ever Ridden

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Here’s a Moment of Pure Joy as Ryan Hargrave Pulls Dane Gudauskas From the Cloudbreak Chaos

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Dave Grohl is an icon. He's an icon who almost drowned surfing.
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Dave Grohl on His Near-Death Surfing Experience: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’

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Since Cloudbreak is blowing up in ways it hasn't for years, it is stealing all the thunder from all the other amazing waves in the area. As it should, perhaps, but let's not forget the little brother, Restaurants.
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While Cloudbreak Went Off the Richter, Restaurants Quietly Went PERFECT

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"Just take a second and process this," wrote Kelly Slater of the image above. "@surfnavarro kicked out right next to me and all I could do was give him a big hug." Image: Instagram
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This Enormous Cloudbreak Swell Looks Too Crazy to Be Real

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Summer is almost here, and, depending on where you live, that means long days and small waves. That doesn't mean you have to give up on riding waves, of course, but while most break out the longboards, some break out the foils.
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Summertime Sliding: Foilboard Party Waves With Kai Lenny and Ian Gentil

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There are few people on the North Shore who command as much respect as Kaimana Henry.
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Kaimana Henry’s North Shore Winter Is the Epitome of North Shore Surfing

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Want to Protect Your Favorite Surf Spots in the World? There’s an App for That

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"The IOC and the Tokyo 2020 organisers have determined that surfing will take place in the ocean in Tokyo, at Tsurigasaki Beach in Chiba."
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ISA President Fernando Aguerre Squashes Olympic Wave Pool Rumors… Sort Of

5 min read
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Kelly Slater Withdraws from Corona Bali Protected

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The Wedge Comes Alive!

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Blair Conklin, Bill Bryan, and a bunch of their dried out friends got a long-awaited soak at the Aliso Wedge on May 22nd.
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The Great Southern California Rehydration: Aliso Wedge Madness

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