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The DirtBag Supply Co. Surf Trip Bucket List
One of the great joys of surfing is traveling to unfamiliar places in pursuit of waves. Check out our latest post for some surf trip inspiration.
The Ultimate Surf Travel Gear Guide
Whether you’re sailing around the world or jet-setting to a surf resort, you’ll need gear you can rely on to get you and your boards through your next surf trip in one piece. The team at Dirtbag Supply Co has searched far and wide for the best travel gear in the business and put together the Ultimate Surf Travel Guide. Continue reading below to make sure you’re prepared for your next surf trip.
Convenient Europe Surf Trip Ideas
A surf trip to Europe is so much more than just a surf trip. It’s a visit to the old world where history, art, and nature meet in force. It may be difficult to convince your significant other to tag along on a typical surf trip south of the border, but surf travel to Europe is an easy sell for most.
Surf Literature 101: Our Favorite Surf Books
Surfing is often misrepresented in the media and literature. Every so often, someone gets it right, and it usually has a transformative effect on the landscape of surfing. Take two seminal surf films, for example, Gidget (fiction) and Endless Summer (documentary). Both films took the nation by storm and brought surfing and the surf lifestyle to the forefront of pop culture. A good surf film is rare, and a good surf book may be twice as rare. Too often is surfing portrayed in cliché-ridden, campy storylines that don’t have the technical accuracy. Rarely do filmmakers or authors nail the lingo,...
Barrels vs. Turns: Here’s Which Surf Travel Destinations are Best for Each
There’s an age-old debate in surfing about what's considered a perfect wave? Is a perfect wave hollow and punchy, providing the tube rides of a lifetime but not the occasional guillotining? Or does a perfect wave peel endlessly and offer a blank canvas to surfers who can draw whichever line they see fit for hundreds of meters