The Wedge Newport Beach

Every summer, swells that begin life off New Zealand, travel to North America and end up at Newport Beach. As the waves approach shore, they bounce off the jetty's boulders and, in the final seconds before landfall, merge and morph into a backbreaking and monstrous wave known as the Newport Wedge. For most of the year the surf is calm, but when it gets big, out come the body surfers to challenge