Volume 29 Issue 4
On the cover: Mikey February reminds us that good style is predicated on not thinking about style. Photo by Nick Green. Inside the issue, we hit check-points from Alaska to the Azores, take a close visual study of Tom Servais’ last decade of high-profile surf shooting, and pay our culture collection fee to the modern skimboard scene. Profiles of surfing satirist Sterling Spencer and shortboard-revolution performance pusher Sharron Weber lend human interest touches, while Nate Tyler’s hand-built home in Central California and surfboards recycled as signage on the North Shore are explorations in atypical craftsmanship.
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Rights of Passage
When it comes to beach access, let’s just agree to disagree with ourselves.
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Pretty In Pink
An interview with model, designer, skater, surfer, Evan Mock.
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Something About Alaska
Why hire a catalog shooter when you have a coldwater surf sleuth on speed dial?
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A Center of Gravity
At Home with Nate Tyler.
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Skim City
After a half-century of underdog obscurity, surfing’s sandy stepchild is finally finding its sea legs
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Area Coding
Only in the 808 does such ignoble usage make a haunting sort of sense.
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Secret Surfer
Tracking the life of forgotten two-time world champion Sharron Weber.
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Built to Last
Tom Servais has been sharpshooting arcade ducks for nearly four decades… and counting.
![[All captions by the photographer] Joel Parkinson, Cloudbreak. You see a surfer’s style in everything they do in the water—even in the way they kick out. Even though he’s a world champion, he probably would have won even more heats had he not made things look so easy.](https://tsj-archive.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/servais14_33385.jpg?w=1200&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.4752&fp-y=0.5907&dm=1780520457&s=2590e4ce8c2ce134ca6668cd5c9fc034)
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Down in a Southern State
Sterling Spencer’s turn from professional surfer to surfing satirist.
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Light in the Atlantic
Illuminating the Azores with Hugo Vau.
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Going Above Ground
Johnny Cabianca takes an old-school approach to the cutting edge of surfing.
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Clown Show Cracks
Dealing with the at-home repercussions of a surf trip gone bad.
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The Collected Cooper
Memories of an eccentric pioneer.
