TRAIN LIKE A PRO Caroline Marks, 19, is the youngest surfer ever to qualify for the women’s Championship Tour. Here she reveals how she prepares for competition at the sport’s highest level.
To earn a high score from the judges, Marks must flow through a series of powerful turns, performing a quick dance across the face of the wave as churning water explodes behind her. She uses her strong and compact body to spin her surf board into a tight arc, throwing her fins up through the wave’s crest and launching herself into the air. So far, so good: In 2019, her second year on the World Surf League Championship tour, she finished in second place after fellow American Carissa Moore.
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