“You could drive 2,000 miles up the Pacific coast and never even find one spot like that. “Santa Cruz has 15 world class surf spots in one town,” he says. Surfers like Daniel McGregor III, a San Francisco Uber driver whose surfboard is always strapped to the roof of his car, say that little Santa Cruz is the real deal. Don’t miss several other towns known for beach breaks that more advanced surfers love, such as El Porto in Manhattan Beach. Huntington Beach has copyrighted the name “Surf City USA.” Redondo Beach, birthplace of the modern wetsuit by Bodyglove, is home of The Beach Boys. Check out Oceanside and the California Surf Museum and, in Laguna, Hollywood royalty at the Montage Resort beach. La Jolla’s Surf Diva school features pink surfboards, women instructors and kids lessons. Visit Imperial Beach, which hosts Unleashed, a canine surfing competition in September. Heading north from Tijuana, San Diego claims several Dog Beaches. Today, California’s 1200-mile-long Pacific coast boasts dozens of surf spots for all abilities, many with good surf year round. Recognizing Waikiki’s familiar rolling surf when they visited the spot where the San Lorenzo River meets the Pacific in Santa Cruz, they made O’lo style surfboards for themselves of local redwood (weighing 150-175 lbs and between 17’-18’ in length, according to the Santa Cruz Daily Surf) and took to the waves. Santa Cruz, California is Surf Heaven Life is sweet in Santa Cruz., where surfing is an everyday treat.ĭiving deeper, historians say that California owes its own surfing history to three Hawaiian princes who went to military academy in San Mateo in 1885. Pause at his statue on Kalakaua Avenue in O’ahu to admire the surf he loved so much. He became the sport’s unofficial ambassador, introducing surfing to the Atlantic coast, Australia and New Zealand in 1914, and to California the following year.īefore his death in 1968, The Duke as he came to be called, had popularized swimming by doing exhibition meets to raise money for war bonds, won six more Olympic medals, appeared in 28 Hollywood movies, and rode a monster wave in Waikiki for 1.25 miles – the longest ever recorded. When Hawai’i became a state in 1960, The Duke was appointed Official Ambassador of Aloha. In 1912 it was rare to see a dark face at the Olympics, and Duke’s good looks, graceful style and unusual pastime of wave sliding attracted a lot of attention. Surfing Back in the Dayįor centuries the sport of Hawaiian royalty, modern surfing was introduced to the world by Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, a Waikiki native who at age 21 won two Olympic medals in swimming and set the 100-meter freestyle world record. Young and old can learn to surf if given good coaching at one of the world’s top surfing schools. Most surfing schools will hook you up with a proper board and if they can’t, turn to TheQuiver, where you can rent a board from another surfer (who’s getting paid to share it) - it’s like an Airbnb for surfboards. Looking for the top surfing schools and beach breaks because surfer slang has washed over your conversations? Book one of these places to surf and your family will learn the sport and surf together.įor everyone else who heeds the Beach Boys’ call, “Let’s go surfing now, everybody’s learning how…” we present six great beach break destinations where the surf’s (almost always) up.
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