Volume 26 Issue 6
In this issue, we follow a team of daredevils to the glacial outfalls of Alaska, a crew of Indonesian pioneers through the revelation of Desert Point, and director Bruce Brown’s still-camera inside the most impactful surf movie ever assembled. Technical analysis of the asymmetrical surfboard, and a deep batch of imagery from the frontlines of the professional surf arena, add motion and ballast.
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The Gunman on the Hill
The 1979 California Stubbies Pro vs. the Last Soul Surfer.
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Interview: Barton Lynch
“Being a pro surfer is about your personal development. It’s not about your surfing.”
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The Calves of Copper River
It’s been nearly a decade since Garrett McNamara and company attempted the most audacious project in surfdom. Writer Kimball Taylor was on site, and still can’t shake how heavy it was.
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In Unequal Measure
Tricking the eye with its apparently nature-defying curvature, the asymmetrical surfboard comes down to the pursuit of ultimate balance.
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Favors of Fortune
Across the Strait to Desert Point.
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Bruce’s Beauties
Timed to the advent of the 50th anniversary of the most popular surf movie ever made, a hidden archive of production stills and photos taken by the director has percolated up through the topsoil. Many have found their way onto Bruce Brown Films’ social feeds. Others have been high-graded into the recent nonesuch boxed-edition art volume, The Endless Summer. Page through and see if these don’t have you wanting to prick up your ear, listening for Wally Georis’ haunting melodica work with The Sandals as Mike and Robert cross datelines.
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The Straight Story
Technique, craft, and sweat-equity on the WSL trail.
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A Legend and a Menace
Bouncing with the first big-wave bodyboarder, Phyllis “Jill” Dameron Albrecht.
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Trust the Process
From Bonny Doon to the Bagpipe with Wil Banks.
