Volume 33 Issue 5
In this issue, we deep dive into one writer/director’s filmography and impact on wider pop culture, open a South Oz shooter’s catalog, dive for bluewater gold in the California Bight, glean wisdom from a revered surfing elder, conduct recon in the Eastern Mediterranean, and more.
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Raw Capture
Photographer Isaac Zoller’s stills and movement from Laguna Beach and wider Pacific environs.
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Religious None
Soul surfing, from the Hawaiian kahunas to Ram Dass.
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On Style
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By the Horns
Joey Cabell on his impromptu bull fight, speed sailing, skiing, the power of commitment, and shaping and riding the White Ghost.
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The Last Urchin Diver
Surfer and bottom-scratcher Conner Rhoads is one of the youngest holdouts in a shrinking old-world trade. Join him for a dive through the tides of change.
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Kangaroos, Snow Leopards, Steel-Cut Lines
Wayne Lynch to Kelly Slater. Bells to the backcountry. Seventies soul trim to aughts slabs. Aussie Steve Ryan full-frames Victoria.
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Drip Dry
Artist Dan McCarthy and the lightness of process.
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Child of the Bomb
Screenwriter and director John Milius’ Cold War–era films captivated and confounded audiences, infuriated critics, and were defined by his brilliant dialogue, his violent worldview, and his fascination with loners, lost worlds, and long pointbreaks.
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Searching for Arcadia
Kepa Acero and photographer Marc Durà trace a path of antiquity through Lebanon, Tunisia, and Egypt, where the wind, the swell, the landscape, and the bodies politic can flip on a dime.
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Master of the Well-Turned Line
Bryan Di Salvatore, surfer, scribe, and the last of the world’s great correspondents, 1948–2024.
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Undersold, Experiential
A brief case study of the Baja Sur strike.
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Tricks of the Trade
So, you want to shape a surfboard?
