The Wedge Is Back In Action With the First South Swell of the Season
The Wedge is one of those places that doesn’t need a new story or fresh angle to keep things interesting. Year after year the wave delivers the healthiest mix of not just wipeouts, but the most ridiculous carnage one can find in the world over an entire season. It’s not like we’re talking about a fickle backwash wave that turns on once in a blue moon and turns into a spectacle. It just is a spectacle from the northern hemisphere’s spring through fall. Head high or triple overhead, it’s a show. Even TMZ wants a piece of the place.
It’s dependable. And it never really gets old.
Orange County filmmaker Brent Weldon is part of a handful of gurus who’ve filmed the Newport slab for as long as anybody can remember and he’s captured action from both the water and the beach throughout. His library of footage there might be as deep as you’ll find in the modern era of social media clips, raw footage, and season-long wrap-ups. All this is to say he knows the place well — the lineup, the crew, the wave’s different moods, you name it.
This week, of course, brought the West Coast its first true south swell of the new season, lighting up a majority of the most familiar waves in the Golden State. And that includes the Wedge. It definitely wasn’t the biggest we’ll see this coming summer but it attracted some regular standouts like Blair Conklin and Sage Burke, who just wrapped up a solid winter on the North Shore. And speaking of the North Shore, Koa Smith made an appearance in the Wedge lineup as well.
“Good to feel some ocean POWER again,” Smith said after getting some waves in California.
It’s tough to argue with that.
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