Volume 26 Issue 1
In this issue, we open with 19-year-old Lloyd Kahn making the leap in Santa Cruz, 1955. Features inside include Jon Foster’s archive of Windansea imagery, a visit to Cloud Nine in the Philippines, a cold-case file on a man named Mr. X and his contributions to edge-board design, plus short fiction from Bryan Di Salvatore.
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The Legible Element
Mind surfing with lauded Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, who intuited a lot about the “selves of waves.”
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Interview: Fred Hemmings
“Surfing was a rebellious sport but I was like the ultimate rebel.”
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A Graceful and Perfumed Rage
Teenaged runaway. Performance pioneer. Lifetime surf obsessive. Lisa Andersen inhabits each role with trademark élan.
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Neptune Alley
Jon Foster’s La Jolla Photography.
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The Maturation of Cloud Nine
Can the star surf experience in the “Fickleppines” survive increased investment?
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You Never Give Me Your Money
The unsold paintings of surf-art pioneer Michael Dormer.
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Edge Boards and the Mysterious Mr. X
The quest for speed at the dawn of the Shortboard Revolution.
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Heavy-Sea Rating
Undersung and overqualified, Jonathan Paarman informs his custom yachts with wave-inspired curves.
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at a Wave
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Portfolio: Corey Wilson
A 15-image representation of a top-tier Californian shooter’s recent work.
