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Portfolio Bob Weeks

For Californian surfers—and, by extension, wave riders worldwide—the origin stories are all but memorized. Thanks to photographers like Don James, LeRoy Grannis, and Ron Stoner,…

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Generation Slab

“Russ was only 12 when he went on his first swell-chase to Torquay with his old man. After packing the van, they drove 10 hours…

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Path Of The Jimmicane

The son of British Nationals, raised in Bahrain, and now working out of Bali, 24-year-old photographer Tom Hawkins has spent the last five years ranging…

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Send Them Bagels

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Steeped In The Brew

Nathan Fletcher has spent most of his life in the shadow of his family. In 2011, however, he dropped into one of the heaviest waves…

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Sick

Pro skater Grayson Fletcher is the scion of the Hoffman/Fletcher axis, a distinction wrought with blessings and perhaps more than one curse. Luckily, most of…

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Dragged Into The Daylight

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Woman In The Workplace

To really understand the inner-workings of a dynasty, it helps to have an insider show you the kingdom. Lady Astrodeck walks us through her marriage…

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Spearhead

Academics seek knowledge. Capitalists seek wealth. The Fletchers have chased hedonistic experience. For Herbie Fletcher, this worldview has translated into hanging with the likes of…

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There Are No Sharks

Late-millennial big-wave waterman Marty Hoffman spent much of his youth in the orbit of his father, Flippy, surfing the North Shore, Indo, and deep into…

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Shitty But Good

Flippy Hoffman was part surfer, part pirate, part business-hawk, and all character. Along with his younger brother, Walter, his Hawaiian big-wave water time in the…

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Sui Generis

Joyce Hoffman established the image of the archetypal pro surfer. Fiercely competitive and highly photogenic, she won four U.S. Championships in the 1960s and 70s,…