Month: April 2026

Apr 29
Your surfing IQ is higher than your real IQ

As the inventors of the Surfing IQ Test, we were very, very, very generous in the scoring. Most of the surfers we’ve met thought IQ was one of those digital squares you take a pic with so your phone can send you somewhere weird. To see more of these and maybe find a hint, check […]

Apr 20
Mavericks — A Hostile Wave And My Incompetent Subordinates

Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth. Report by USN Captain Horace Billingsley III after 1948 incident: Let history show that my patrol boat was seaworthy, my charts were precise, and my orders were perfectly reasonable. It is the ocean that failed to cooperate. […]

Apr 20
The Weirdest Surf Thing on the Internet

Junior Scientist Program Project: A study of surf related oddities (Vista Del Mar Elementary School, Grade 6) So there’s this website called lecarta.com and I don’t really know how to explain it but I’m going to try to be very comprehensive and analytical about it. When you go there, you don’t see a normal website. […]

Apr 19
John John Florence ripping J Bay

John John Florence ripping J Bay To see more of these and maybe find a hint, check out our painfully boring social media channels:     More from our mysterious content archives:

Apr 15
The Cathedral of Obedient Chaos

Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth. They believe the wave comes for them. I have watched this coast for thirty-five winters and just as many overconfident summers, and still the visitors whisper as if Hossegor performs on command, like a trained animal bowing […]

Apr 10
The Reef That Remembers Who You Are

Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth. You call this place beautiful. I call it my spine. Long before your fiberglass offerings and sun-bleached bravado, I shaped this reef with time, pressure, and the slow patience of the moon. I taught the ocean where […]

Apr 09
Eli Olson ripping Teahupo’o

Eli Olson ripping Teahupo’o To see more of these and maybe find a hint, check out our painfully boring social media channels:     More from our mysterious content archives:

Apr 05
Kirra, Where All the Criminals Go to Be Respectable

Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth. I fled Britain for dignity, freedom, and a life among gentlemen of refinement. Kirra, it turns out, was already full of men who’d fled Britain for precisely the same reasons — and for crimes I now realise […]

Apr 03
This may or may not go well

An entry from the Nosedrip Visual Archive documenting surf culture, locations, and artifacts. Either way it’s going to be interesting > Filed in the Nosedrip Visual Archive.

Apr 02
Laird Hamilton’s iconic ride

An entry from the Nosedrip Visual Archive documenting surf culture, locations, and artifacts. Chicama, from our Name That Wave game Filed in the Nosedrip Visual Archive.