Paul Evans
Somebody’s has to speak up for the forgotten victims, like 2016. The year that gave us Brexit, Trump and killed everyone who’d ever thought about making a decent song or film, had enjoyed a level of infamy as the gruesome year everyone wanted to turn off and on again, until 2020 came along and put 2016 back in its bland to middling irrelevant little vanilla box.
If 2016 was kicking life while it was down, 2020 was Tyson uppercuts to the face whilst underwater in a crashed plane going over the falls in a tsunami.
And yet for all the misery, as seen from the narrow prism of surfers, we were more concerned for our wave counts than R-numbers.
The East Coast Is Set to Pump, the WSL Gets Rolling, and Was This the Best Maverick s Ever?
Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was December 11 2020
Photo: Billy Watts
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1. Maverick’s Was Perhaps the Best It’s Ever Been
Here’s one way to know that Maverick’s is kind of a big deal: it’s one of the only surf spots to have a big Hollywood movie made about it. I mean, have you seen Gerard Butler on the big screen surf South Curl Curl? (No, you haven’t.) Have you heard of a movie called