Pulling Guard

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From the region that brought you Pelé and Fittipaldi, Paulista Gabriel Medina sacked the world surfing circuit with stone faced equanimity. In this profile, “Biel” finally looses his tongue.

By Adrian Kojin

Volume 30 Issue 6 (2021)

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On the cover: Chippa Wilson double mugs it while, in the immortal words of The Beverly Hillbillies’ Jed Clampett, taking a dip in the “cement pond.” Photo by John Respondek. Features inside the book offer cuts that span the gamut in craft, era, place, and perspective: A character study of pro surfing’s biggest cryptic. Two decades worth of under-the-radar lineups from across the globe. Slide slipping the masses in a wave riding boomtown. First-person narratives of big-wave surfing’s heaviest feats. A 1960s epoch-marking cartoonist. The figure behind South Africa’s establishment as a surfing powerhouse in the 70s. Modern captures of Waikiki rollers and Pipe lip throws from a shooter decidedly in the mix.

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