How crowds fuel innovation in surfing

In the HBO documentary series 100 Foot Wave, Buzzy Kerbox recounts the origins of tow surfing. “At some point,” he says, “all the North Shore breaks – they’re all just so crowded, it was just so hard to get the good wave. It’s like being at a ski resort and there’s just hundreds of people on every run, and then there’s just mountains in the back.” Buzzy’s comment made me think, is part of what has driven surfers to explore more and more extreme waves simply a response to the increasingly crowded lineups? READ MORE