Surfing Secrets

Surfing looks simple -- until the ocean humbles you.

Jeff Jones and Gene Novak have a combined hundred years of experience in the water, from the frigid winter point breaks of New Hampshire to the warm swells of Costa Rica, Peru, Hawaii, and the West Indies. In Surfing Secrets, they hand you everything they wish someone had told them before they paddled out for the first time.

This isn't a glossy highlight reel. It's a real-talk guide to choosing the right board, reading weather and tides, pi...