Redondo Beach Breakwater Guia

One of L.A.'s few big-wave spots, Redondo Breakwater is a fast, walled left that breaks across the front of the King Harbor breakwall. On N and W swells bigger than six-feet, this spot can hold up to 20-feet. The wave refracts and is amplified off of the jetty, spinning out long, fast lefts that end in a sucker-punch shorebreak. An Army Corps of Engineers project in 1997 moved some new rocks out onto the bend in the wall, and that, combined with the ongoing loss of sand, is costing the spot some of its former glory. According to regulars, the peak has moved closer to the beach, and the wave doesn't wedge off the jetty as well.