Mrs. Pipeline

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Moana Jones Wong on being crippling shy while excelling at the world’s most examined wave, lineup politics, her DIY approach, and growing up on the North Shore.

By Beau Flemister

Volume 32 Issue 1 (2023)

35.4
Anything’s Possible

Emboldened by raw talent and progressive…

By Dan Merkel
35.2
Waterworld

Steve Wilkings captured an era at sea level…

By Kyle DeNuccio
34.6
You Must Be This Tall to Ride

Reading the room and climbing the pecking order…

By Beau Flemister
34.5
The Bosses of Southern Japan

Stipulations, local heavies, and rivermouth tubes…

By Cliff Kapono

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Volume 32 Issue 1

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On the cover: Shaun Manners, achieving low orbit somewhere in the Australian desert. “I love getting down to the dez,” says photographer Josh Tabone. “It’s cold. It’s raw. It’s a little bit eerie, and it kind of sorts the men from the boys.” Other glide paths inside include one woman’s inexplicable draw to the world’s deadliest wave, trafficking contraband via foam and fiberglass, the collision of aerospace and surf culture in a champion-breeding town, a freewheeling French Caribbean export, high-horsepower fabrications, and a low-brow artist’s big-wave motif.

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