Local Oscar Moncada gets whipped through a heaving cavern at Playa Zicatela, Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Video by Alejandro De la Torre. An entry in the Ride of the Year
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UC San Diego has again been named one of the nation’s best schools for surfing, taking the No. 2 spot in The Surf Channel’s list of top 10 universities for surfers. The channel attributes the ranking to the university’s proximity to the “shreddible†breaks at Black’s Beach and its “epic†surf team, which has won six National Scholastic Surfing Association (NSSA) titles.
UCSD has long been recognized as a top school for surfing by some of the sport’s most respected news sources, including Surfer Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Transworld Surf and Surfline.com  … More
When most people think of surfing, images of a bronze-skinned Kelly Slater slicing through Hawaiian or Indonesian waves likely come to mind. But world-class surf spots pop up in places other than tropical islands, and they’re known to surface in cold-water regions and even war-torn areas of the world. Check out our list of unlikely surf spots … More