#My5Lineups: Mark McInnis

This is a wave in Mexico that I had been trying to score for ten years. It was elusive. Needless to say, @danishanderson, @lanejpearson, and I absolutely scored it on this swell. We surfed it for three days by ourselves. It was a treat. Unfortunately, the local fishing community built a jetty in the middle of the lineup as we were there. We checked it two weeks later on our drive north and there was a ton of backwash going through the lineup from waves hitting the jetty. We may have been the last group of people to properly score it before it was ruined. Photo: Mark McInnis Photography

This was one of the first waves that @nicomanos showed me in the North Atlantic. I’m not going to say much, but this is one of the longest right points I have ever seen. I’m glad I was able to suit up and sample these ridiculously long walls. Photo: Mark McInnis Photography

I’ve always loved how this image reminds me that waves travel so far before they hit a shallow coastline and stand up and break so that we can ride them. Photo: Mark McInnis Photography

In February of 2015, @cohenscorner, @petedevries, @bengulliver, and I took off to Northern Europe to find some chilly slabs. We didn’t know what this monster was called, so we just referred to it as “Satan's." It wasn’t surfable, but it sure was fun to act like it was in our minds. Photo: Mark McInnis Photography

My first trip to Oaxaca involved numerous poundings into the sand and hardly any drops made. I took this photo after an evening of relentless beatings. Sometimes it’s just best to take photos. This was one of those times. Photo: Mark McInnis Photography