Surfing Secrets

Surfing looks simple -- until the ocean humbles you.

Jeff Jones and Gene Novak have a combined hundred years of experience in the water, from the frigid winter point breaks of New Hampshire to the warm swells of Costa Rica, Peru, Hawaii, and the West Indies. In Surfing Secrets, they hand you everything they wish someone had told them before they paddled out for the first time.

This isn't a glossy highlight reel. It's a real-talk guide to choosing the right board, reading weather and tides, picking safe beaches and breaks, mastering paddling and technique, and understanding the gear that keeps you alive out there -- including hard-won lessons on hypothermia, heat stroke, riptides, and the kind of "learn it the hard way" moments most surfers never talk about.

Along the way, Jeff and Gene share their own surfing stories -- from a fifteen-year-old riding a hurricane swell alone at Plum Island to chasing perfect glassy tubes in Rhode Island -- plus a full glossary of surf-community terms, so you'll never feel lost in the lineup again.

Whether you're paddling out for the first time or you've been chasing waves for years, Surfing Secrets is the friend at the beach who's been there, done that, and wants to see you catch the ride of your life -- safely.

Grab your board. The water's waiting.