...picked off lefts all week and when the swell got funny, he went to work on this bowl in Buxton

If you have the sack to attack huge bowls on shallow reef, you still have to compete with 55 chargers to get one of these beauties...

...and yelling "Outside," with a passion that hasn't been there since February. Mid-Atlantic dawn patrol bowl

...finds a little place to live in our brain forever. Bradley Ward got that wave at Soup Bowls, one glassy evening last week

...in their fate this winter, it looks something like this. Larry Rios shows how to navigate the bowl

...become synonomous with certain surfers. Magazines all over the world have run Lavecchia's shots of this bowl in his backyard. This is Asher Nolan's first time in a winter wetsuit. Seems worth it...

Surfing the Bowl at X

Cold and spicy Chile bowls, lined up and looking soooo inviting

You don't pull into pits at Bowls like this without a little sun salutation in your life. Randall Paulson, feeling loose

...wave performance, young Kolohe Andino puts a finishing stamp—and stomp—on a tiny little bowl at a little beachbreak not more than a mile from his house in San Clemente, Calif

The Pier has a way of setting up nice bowls. This is an access issue, plain and simple

...a skate park in the water. Super grom Kalani David boosts over the coping at the Ronnie Bowl, forcing a much older guy to stare in disbelief

...grumbling. And while it may not be exactly like shooting from the end zone at the Super Bowl, it definitely has its perks. Also, check the reef in the background: That's really how close...

San Francisco local Alex Martins takes this Monster Paddle contender steep and deep from the bowl, while Nor Cal transplant Nathan Fletcher plays the roll of shoulder hopper

Rob Machado, starting QB for Surfing Super Bowl I