This is a guest field note article written by our friend Dave Allee of Almond Surfboards A few weeks ago, in early June, Southern California shifted its coll...
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The Wedge is a combination of two waves that merge together, thrusting into a titanic slingshot that breaks with enough pounds per square inch to send Stone Cold Steve Austin to the mat. It takes a south swell only, refracting the swell energy off the jetty and creating a sideways wave that slings across the beach and mates with the next wave in the set. The result is what locals fittingly call a "humping effect," where the set waves jack, expand and release in unimaginable ways.


The Wedge Newport Beach-Where I learned to body surf-Not on big swell days though
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Punker Pat huge turn at Wedge last weekend. Ph: Noah Garcia.
Josh Sleep and Ozzie Wright surfing chest-head waves in Australia. 6min surf video created by Harry Triglone in 2023.