Except from The New York Times article by Joel Lovell: Six Things I Learned From Reading Every Last Word of Surfer Magazine 

There’s a monthly page called “Curious Gabe,” for which a photojournalist named Gabe Sullivan drives around in his ’72 VW bus and interviews people about their surfing lives. In this month’s issue, the question is: “What lengths have you gone to score uncrowded surf?” Best answer, from 8-year-old Tyson Lockhart: “Sometimes on surf trips, I wake up really early and check the surf. Then I tell my brothers and friends the surf conditions are really bad, but it’s actually pretty good. That way I can catch a few waves before anybody gets out of bed.”