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Make a wrong move at one of these spots, and you can expect a (well-deserved?) beating.

Surfing has always had its fiercely local breaks. It seems localism, where local surfers intimidate visiting surfers to discourage them from surfing “their” waves, doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. The latest example occurred in Streaky Bay in South Australia when a local group called the The Mid West Coast Surfriders Association put a halt to a proposed Big Wave World Tour event at a relatively new big wave spot called Yanerbie Bombie. Given this recent incident, we came up with five of surfing’s most “localized” beaches, where the extremely dangerous waves are the very least of your worries   …  More

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