Volume 31 Issue 2
On the cover: New Yorker Balaram Stack is well acquainted with tunnels. From the complexities of the Big Apple’s subway system to the depths of Mainland Mexico tubes, he knows the importance of choosing the right line. Photo by Justin Smith. Threads inside the issue trace equally varied paths, including digital renderings of natural wave patterns, a window into the halcyon days of Aussie surf media, modern thrashing in Tasmanian waters, and other throughlines across the seascape.
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On Style
The old style versus fashion argument.
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Sometimes I Wonder How I Keep From Going Under
Coming to grips with the new Malibu surfer.
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Until The Wheels Fall Off
An interview with Timmy Reyes.
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Just One More
A decade ago, Mike McCune refitted an old fishing trawler and began running Alaska’s first long-distance surf charters. The man resurrected a boat, and the boat resurrected a surfer.
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Stranger in a Strange Sea
Decisive photographer Leigh Wiener coaxed poetry from surfing’s golden years.
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Happy Punting
Jumping around Tasmania with Chippa Wilson.
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Process Distortion
Digital disruptions of natural wave patterns.
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Peak Print
Surfing World during the Channon-McLeod years was impossibly resonant.
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Ancestral Dreaming
Putting coastal recreation and stewardship into context with California’s original locals.
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Working Remotely
Michael Townsend and the photographic benefits of staying in motion, hashtag-free.
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Sharp Breakers
George Freeth shares surfing with San Diego in the summer of 1918.
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Quadratic Formulas
In Jungian fashion, four fins descend from the collective unconscious in the early 1980s.
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In Full Flow
Tom Morey, 1935–2021.
