{"id":439768,"date":"2026-08-21T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439768\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:12:12","slug":"los-angeles-is-not-a-surf-town-but-when-its-good-its-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439768\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Is Not a Surf Town, But When It’s Good, It’s Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Malibu is on, it\u2019s all-time. Photo: Hunter Jones \/\/ YouTube<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles exists in a peculiar place in the surfing world. Thanks to movies, the sun-soaked beaches of L.A. county have long been associated with the sport. The only problem is that the surfing there isn\u2019t actually very good most of the time.<\/p>\n

After all, there\u2019s a reason you don\u2019t see too many L.A. locals ascending to the top of the sport\u2019s mountain. The current Championship Tour has none to speak of, and to find any you have to start going back decades. Back in the \u201980s, Matt Warshaw went pro after growing up on the shores of Santa Monica and Venice, and before that, \u201960s legends like Greg Noll and Miki Dora were known to haunt Malibu.<\/p>\n

On the other hand. When L.A. is on, it\u2019s on. Under the right conditions, the South Bay can sneak in a barrel or two instead of crushing closeouts. When Malibu<\/a> goes off it suddenly becomes a world-class wave worthy of the legendary status it earned off the back of \u201960s classics like Gidget.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s worth celebrating Los Angeles when it lives up to its reputation, as Hunter Jones did in in his latest video<\/a>. \u201cTwo weeks straight of firing conditions, back-to-back hurricane swells, and water warmer than I\u2019ve ever felt out there,\u201d he wrote in the caption. \u201cI caught a wave from Second Point all the way through to the sand \u2014 one minute nine seconds, the longest ride of my life and something I\u2019ve wanted to check off the bucket list forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Malibu is on, it\u2019s all-time. Photo: Hunter Jones \/\/ YouTube Los Angeles exists in a peculiar place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[174400,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-439768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-hunter-jones","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}