PDF Downloads: Volume 18 NO. 6 - Winter '09
You will find Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia, one of three Senyavin Islands within the Caroline Island chain. It can fire for weeks on end and was first surfed by only a handful from the '60s into the '90s. Fast forward to the late '90s and the secret's unleased with the first surf camp opening in 2004—Pohnpei is no longer a secret.
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Surf philosophy: like 19th century transcendentalist thinkers, surfers, source their inspiration from the natural world. "Sufing is thinking, as it hinges on the profound engagement between an active mind and its environment…."
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It's an epic way to travel and surf—sometimes. Christian recounts the harrowing journey of his sailing trip in the winter of 2009 from San Diego to Baja, California, aboard his handmade 19th-century-style work boat "Comorant". Now he's back home, rested up, and ready to take on the West Coast of North America.
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July 2008, Newport Beach, CA, just north of The Wedge during a once-every-ten-year southern-hemi. "The incoming wave energy was creating equally powerful outgoing rapids producing rhythmic swirling patterns up the beach as far as the eye could see".
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Mike Shine moved to New York City from Syracuse to pursue a career in advertising eventually ending up in San Francisco because his mind was on surfing. Mike proudly shows off his uniquely evolving "Shine Shack," which he reproduced in exacting detail for his first major show. Mike strives to keep his life in balance through his art, his accomplished advertising career, and surfing.
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Kelly Slater's surfboards have always been a little different. From the utlra-narrow glass slipper shortboard designs of his youth to now, wider and fuller (often quad fin) very short boards, Slater's one of the few pros who isn't afraid to tinker with design. Don't be too quick to suggest that Kelly can ride anything and hence his theories don't apply to you. Here, he explains what his vision of the modern surfboard looks like and what that means to you.
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Mike Hynson, the ultra-clean looking robin-hood to Robert August's Batman in the Endless Summer, made a drastic left-hand turn in the late sixties. Eventually busted for running drugs, in this article and excerpt from his book, Hynson recounts his days from Bruce Brown's surf subject to film star to transcendental drug running to present day.
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Jon Steele is proud to hail from the Lone Star State and makes the best of tanker waves and hurricane swells to shoot Texas' finest surfers.
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