Surfing Life — Issue 337 2017

In the digital age, with everyone being spoon-fed

internet swell forecasts and predictions, it’s still

possible to use old school weather forecasting blended

with the modern internet tools, and avoid the rest of the

herd while they chase each other’s tail. Take a look into

our Crystal Ball and learn how:

WORDS BY STEPHEN SHEARER

BALL

Without question, the internet

has been the biggest revolution

in surfing since the shortboard.

With it there has come both an

unprecedented democratisation

of surf forecasting knowledge,

and a dumbing down of the

same, leading to every Tom, Dick

and Harriet showing up for the

same swells at the same spots

• all because they saw it on the
  interwebs. But it doesn’t have
  to be that way! We are here to
  help, and with a little bit of DIY
  knowledge and application you
  can zig when others zag... and
  find empty waves in the spaces in
  between.

CRYSTAL