The Director of Nocturnal Activities

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Matt Hoy on the industry apocalypse, working as a concreter, aging as a surfer, and more.

By The Surfer’s Journal

Volume 34 Issue 6 (2025)

35.4
The Fantastic Displacements of Perfection

Exploring the irregular literatures and sawtooth…

By Dodge Weirath
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
35.3
Lunkerland

South Shore ripper turned pro angler Matty Wong…

By Whitman Bedwell

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Volume 34 Issue 6

In this issue

We pay homage to the Hawaiian winter with modern and traditional studies of Sunset, Pipeline, and Honolua Bay. We also examine the moodboard of a culture-shifting multihyphenate, and assess an award-winning designer’s endemic and mainstream influence. Along the Pacific Rim, we jump in the water with an experienced Canadian shooter, ranch with the stewards of a pristine stretch of California coast, and grovel with a subterranean pack rat in San Diego.

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