Every now and then, a pro surfer will pull a single maneuver in competition that leaves the judges, the fans, and the other competitors utterly baffled. These are the moments that people remember years later. Like Kelly Slater’s hail mary, perfect 10 aerial at the 2011 Quiksilver Pro New York. Or .
Last Year in Surfing
Mike Jennings
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It’s the 52nd This Week In Surfing
column/blog/listicle for the year. So, as is tradition, rather than looking at the last week of things that happened in surfing on the internet, let’s look back at the whole cursed year of 2020 and count down the 10 biggest things that happened in surfing on the internet. Like I said when we did this last year, and the year before that, and the year before that:
this list is the work of one person, who consulted no-one before hitting publish, so it’s probably missing some giganticly major stuff (like Dane Reynolds’ new website, or the end of Surfer Magazine, or the freaking bushfires that devastated so much of the Australian coasts, or the passings of iconic legends in Aus surf culture like Bob Cooper, Shmoo and Marti Tullemans, or perhaps just any of the hundreds of hours of footage from YouTube surf vloggers that flooded the internet in 2020. So please don’t hesitate t