Current Issue:

33.2

On the cover: A view from the back line at Dungeons for Matt Bromley, Fabian Campagnolo, Frank Solomon, and Twiggy Baker. Photograph by Ant Fox. Other vistas in this issue include one photographer’s 30-year Indonesian archive, an epochal rancho California trespass, and the intense ephemerality of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. We also slide frictionless with a West Oz-based surfer/shooter duo, log Malibu with a deft fashionista, and talk mid-life shredding with a ’CT alum. Cultural studies include the endangered species of high-production handshapers, one painter’s destructive process, walking away from a head-on collision in Baja, and more. 

Features

Page 18

ESSAY: THE BRAKES KILL. THE GAS PEDAL SAVES.

“My lizard brain concluded that a collision was inevitable, and that my new truck was now a disposable survival tool.”

Words by Peter Maguire | Illustration by Evan Hecox

Page 26

INTERVIEW: RUN A KNIFE

Taj Burrow on transitioning from the professional tour to the real world, dealing with inevitable regression as a middle-aged surfer, and his favorite ’CT competitors.

Interview by Whitman Bedwell | Illustration by Kristian Hammerstad

Page 30

BUREAU CHIEF

Thirty years of imagery from photographer Jason Childs’ Indonesian tenure.

Introduction by Matt George

Page 60

THROW YOUR HANDS UP

Whether Sano, Malibu, or Bali, Karina Rozunko’s prêt-à-porter surf style proves attractively portable.

Words by Kyle DeNuccio | Photos by Thomas Lodin

Page 68

THE LAST ONE

Surfing is losing its greatest generation of handshapers. What will happen to the culture and the practice of building surfboards when they’re gone?

Words by Todd Prodanovich | Photos by Kenny Hurtado

Page 82

RANCH HANDS

Deep-cut recollections by Mike Hynson, Skip Frye, Ken Joesting, and Chris Beachum from an epoch-defining day.

Words by Cedar Hobbs | Photos by Ron Stoner

Page 92

IMPACT ZONE

Breaking everything with painter Fritz Chesnut.

Alex Weinstein | Photos by Quinn Martin

Page 100

PORTFOLIO: DANIEL PULLEN

Documentary photography and surf interstices in the Outer Banks.

Introduction by Matt Pruett

Page 120

SOUP JOCKEYS

Fins-free at 1/10th of a second, Jordan Rodin and Billy Cervi make hay in the slop and art when conditions present.

Words by Jamie Brisick | Photos by Billy Cervi

Page 128

Undercurrents

Nineteenth-century surf art, Taj Burrow, Andy Irons, and Joel Parkinson’s Oaxaca session in Trilogy, Steve Pezman’s contemplative red light stop, and more.

MA DESTINÉE (My Destiny), Victor Hugo, 1867, brown ink and wash and white gouache on paper, 6 3⁄4 × 10 3⁄8 inches

Purist surf energy from Page One to close-of-book, delivered directly to your door.

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