Volume 31 Issue 6
On the cover: Mason Ho, mid-expectoration at Backdoor. Photo by Shane Grace. Viewpoints inside the magazine include the mindset of a big-wave bodysurfer, North Shore snaps by a skateboard icon, a chase for birds and swell in Southern Europe, the arrested development of a 1970s surfing playboy, the purist standards of a big-board surfer and shaper, impressionistic brushstrokes, and organics ringed by hyper development.
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On Style
Exploring the raw-boned, disorderly, and idiosyncratic moments as a counterweight to the polished.
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Dancing About Architecture
The fraught practice and checkered history of writing about the physical act of riding waves.
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Seeking the Surface
Bodysurfer Kalani Lattanzi on the physical and mental preparedness required to charge Nazaré and Jaws…sans-board.
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Nordic Blood. Tropic Heart.
Arto Saari’s photography of the North Shore is gritty, beautiful, ground level, and alive with character.
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Fetched Up in Amber
For Proto-Los Angeles surf star Mike Purpus, today feels a hell of a lot like 1974.
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Seeds of Abundance
At an organic farm inside the urban sprawl of Orange County, Evan Marks sees farming as surfing—and as a path toward ecological balance.
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Borderlands
Migration patterns, death winds, and exodus along Andalusia’s Costa De La Luz.
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Big Game
Following the spoor with self-made surfer, shaper, and traveler Sam Yoon.
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Regaining Control
A German master of the expressive figurative reflects on painting the surf.
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Thirteen O’Clock
The End of the Worlds: Ocean Beach, California, October 1972.
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Portfolio: Group Show
Visual surf stimuli from the game’s best photographers.
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High Sheen
Maintaining the intricate and dying art of surfboard restoration with Horacio De Seixas.
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Goosebumps
Surveying the outsize presence of a living icon.
