Terry Wade

Terry Wade, born on 27 February 1960, is an American bodysurfer known for riding the powerful waves at The Wedge in Newport Beach, California, which he began surfing at the age of fourteen. Between 1973 and 1998 he drew wide media coverage for sitting in the water for hours waiting for the biggest waves of the day, and Details magazine called him the Michael Jordan of big wave bodysurfing. He joined local efforts to keep surf and body boards out of The Wedge at certain times for safety reasons, appeared in surf films and in the 2016 documentary Dirty Old Wedge, and stopped surfing there in 1998 after a series of serious injuries and spinal surgery. He now lives in Bakersfield, where he teaches flying.