The surf industry in America has an undeniable West Coast lean. A majority of the sport’s media lies in Southern California — this outlet included — and we therefore tend to be a bit more atuned to the goings on of California over our Atlantic Ocean-facing counterparts.
However, if the quality of a winter season in measured in how hollow its barrels were then Jersey and New York surfers have a solid argument that they got it best this time around. Here are Sam Hammer, Balaram Stack, Mark Gilmartin, Stevie Pittman, Pat Schmidt, Mike Gleason, Rob Kelly, and Logan Kamen making their side of the country proud. Seriously, these are some meaty tubes for a group of people regularly cursed with flat spells that sometimes feel like they’ll never end.
