A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Bertlemann, Larry

ADD: that incredible Rasta sequence in Castles in the Sky

Predominantly Hindu country, with a 3,400- mile coastline, facing into the Bay of Bengal to the east, and the Arabian Sea to the west. Swells generated in the Indian Ocean arrive on both coasts during the March-to-June hot season; local monsoons produce wind swells during the rainy season, from June to September; the winter months generally have little or no surf. Sea temperatures in India range from the mid-70s to the low 80s, and local sea life includes crocodiles and poisonous sea snakes. The Andaman Islands, a chain of about 200 islands located 800 miles northeast of India's southern tip, were long off-limits to visitors, but a 1998 Surfer magazine article included photos of perfectly shaped overhead Andaman reef surf, similar to that found in nearby Indonesia. Further south, the nine islands of the Nicobar group offer similar waves and settings, but are still mostly unexplored. India has virtually no surf industry, and just a handful of native surfers. It's not clear exactly when surfing was introduced to India. Regularfooter Jerry Bujakowski represented India in the 1966 and 1968 World Surfing Championships, but he was likely an Indian citizen living overseas. In mid-1968, reigning East Coast champion Claude Codgen, along with Marylou McGinnis and Bob Purvey of California, rode some gentle beachbreak waves at a place they called Seventh Pagoda, near the city of Madras; they're generally credited as the first to surf India. The country's enormous coast- line remains largely unexplored for surf spots, but an excellent pointbreak has been ridden near Bombay, and a 1986 Surfer magazine article noted that India was full of "smallish, fun waves mostly breaking over shallow reefs." 

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