Matt Warshaw Appreciation Week continues with a confession: I'm finally reading Maverick's—with an apostrophe—and I'm already obsessed. Today I share my favorite story (so far) from the book's legendary opening chapters.

Matt Warshaw Appreciation Week rolls on with one of my favorite EOS entries—and one of the most unsettling stories in surf history. Today we revisit the life and final ride of Mark Foo, as told through Warshaw's meticulous, unforgettable writing.

It's Matt Warshaw Appreciation Week! To kick things off, I'm talking about why the man behind History of Surfing and the Encyclopedia of Surfing matters so much—and why his new EOS Archive might become the Vatican Library of surf culture. Plus, we dive into one of my all-time favorite Warshaw stories: Felipe Pomar and the legendary caballitos.

May we all live long enough to become the surfer in this week's Sunday Surf Poem. Today we're reading "Elderly Surfer" by Laurence Goldstein—poet, editor, professor, and Los Angeles native who just might have picked up a board in his lifetime (no promises, but the man understood the rhythm).

This week we dive into the beautiful, messy, political world of Cloudbreak — and cloudbreaks. Yep, lowercase and uppercase. One's a type of terrifying outer-reef wave; the other is Fiji's crown jewel left-hander, home to Shish Kebabs, 200-yard rides, and decades of surf drama.

One of our readers hit me with the wildest question this week: Does it matter if I don't care about where surfing came from? Cue my dramatic gasp. In this episode, we talk about whether surf history and culture actually matter, why some surfers couldn't care less, and why that's…honestly fine.

This week's surf news is…a lot. A rock-throwing surfer in Tenerife, a lifeguard on the North Shore telling people they'll "come home in a box," Fiji potentially bringing back pay-to-surf rules, Munich's Eisbach collapsing, Dylan Graves breaking the world's weirdest Guinness Record, and a blind surfer who made Team USA in weeks. Not super uplifting—but very surfodrama.

Today's episode was supposed to be about Nazi symbolism in surfing. Truly. But nobody needs that today. So instead, we pivoted— hard—into the complete opposite: surfing pets. And not just any surfing pet. Meet Ricochet, the Golden Retriever who became the world's first "SURFice dog," surfing tandem with children with disabilities, veterans with PTSD, and anyone who needed her.

Wish you could magically improve at surfing in between sessions? Same. Until that spell exists, here are the 10 "surf" land sports. From panic paddling to lineup psychology to emotional regulation (yes, really), this episode breaks down exactly how to get better in the water…while you're very much on land.

Never seen The Endless Summer? Don't worry — after this episode, you'll be able to talk about it like you've watched it three times while wearing zinc and eating a cold musubi in the parking lot. We break down the iconic surf film, the characters, the myth-making, the filmmaking chaos, the $50 round-the-world ticket hack, and the controversy over whether it's even a documentary. Basically: a pocket-sized surf history lesson you can drop into the lineup the next time someone quotes Bruce Brown.