How to Read Waves: Quick Tip Learning to read the ocean more efficiently is literally a process you will do for the rest of your life as a surfer. You are attempting to "read" energy moving through a liquid medium, and then interpret, and respond (that is surfing). The more active of a participant you become in this process, the better you'll become. Consider the nuance and detail that Slater sees when he's looking at Pipeline compared to you. He's seeing levels of detail and visual understandin