{"id":161672,"date":"2021-08-27T21:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T04:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161672"},"modified":"2021-08-27T21:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T04:22:42","slug":"can-you-pick-up-big-wave-surfing-in-middle-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161672","title":{"rendered":"Can You Pick Up Big-Wave Surfing in Middle Age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dream of surfing bigger waves took hold on a blue winter day several years ago, when I stood on a dune at San Francisco\u2019s Ocean Beach and watched 20-foot swells peel into magnificent long walls. I was 45 years old, and I\u2019d been surfing OB for 15 years, never venturing into anything above 10 or 12 feet, but all of a sudden I began thinking\u2026 maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Before I explain why, and how it all worked out, I should clarify that nothing I\u2019m describing qualifies as what I\u2019d consider true big-wave surfing. I\u2019ve seen the latter in an awful lot of movies, and with my own eyes at Maverick\u2019s, 20 miles south of Ocean Beach, and at a break on Maui called Jaws. By some accounts, big-wave surfing doesn\u2019t begin until the face hits\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/water-activities\/big-wave-surf-learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dream of surfing bigger waves took hold on a blue winter day several years ago, when I stood on a dune at San Francisco\u2019s Ocean Beach and watched 20-foot swells peel into magnificent long walls. I was 45 years old, and I\u2019d been surfing OB for 15 years, never venturing into anything above 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161673,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161672\/revisions\/161673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}