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Omni-American, staff writer at The Atlantic, founding editor of The Best of Journalism–subscribe here: https://t.co/z6wyUHjoSp

Apr 29, 2021, 12 tweets

At The Wedge, it's rare to see someone turn right. After all, if you turn right your hurtling toward a rock jetty. The day I was there, I saw just one person turn right all afternoon. A look at his ride in twelve tweets, starting here:

At first the ride seemed uneventful. But at The Wedge, there's the wave coming in from the ocean and the mini-wave bouncing back off the jetty. Here he is looking at that mini-wave:

It bears mentioning that he's moving pretty fast here.

Fast enough to get some air.

A lot of air.

I did not expect this!

And I thought for sure that it was going to be a brutal wipeout.

And then...

Is he going to...

He *is* going to land it!

Right side-up inches above the white water...

...which promptly swallowed him up.

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