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Pro skateboarder Elissa Steamer on learning to surf at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, the longevity of her career, sobriety, and more.

By Travis Ferré

Volume 33 Issue 6 (2024)

35.4
Anything’s Possible

Emboldened by raw talent and progressive…

By Dan Merkel
35.4
Grueler

Codes of conduct, depravity, and the narcissism…

By Peter Maguire
35.4
Riding the Crash

Santa Cruz’s surf-skate industrialist Rich Novak.

By Christian Beamish
35.1
Make It Look Easy

Chris Miller on the balance of style and…

By Elliott Wright

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Volume 33 Issue 6

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We investigate magic surfboards, dig through a shooter’s 50-year-deep file, walk the beach with a trendsetting scavenger, and view prime selects by a South African photographer. We also head due north in Europe to cut first tracks in the Arctic Ocean, and more.

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