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

Alexandre, João (Dapin)

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

Tropical western African country founded in 1822 by freed American slaves, located about four degrees north of the equator and featuring 300 miles of rugged southwest-facing coastline. 

In 1975, California surf pilgrims Craig Peterson and Kevin Naughton, having already traveled much of the West African coast, discovered a perfectly shaped left pointbreak tube at Robert's Port, near the Liberian/Sierra Leone border. 

Braziers, a point located near the town of Marshal, is also first-rate—if somewhat inconsistent—as are another three or four Liberian points. Most of the coast, however, is filled with sandy jungle-lined beachbreaks. 

Liberia is open to Atlantic swells from the west, southwest, and south, and picks up small waves all year. The biggest surf, usually between four and eight feet, generally arrives from April to July. 

The Liberian coastal weather is often stifling, averaging 80 degrees for most of the year, then jumping to the mid-and high 90s, with 100 percent humidity, from March to June. Ocean temperatures remain near 80 all year. 

As of 2003, Liberia was home to fewer than a dozen native surfers.

Liberia

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