22.3

Point Solutions

From his beginnings on the pointbreaks of Santa Barbara and mid-’60s Hollister Ranch to his current outpost in Byron Bay, Michael Cundith has made a…

22.3

Natural Selections

A portfolio of the finest images from Andrew Buckley. “Shorty” as most people call him, has not only evolved with the changing landscape of surf…

22.3

Daily Driver

Shortboard modernist and archival shaper CJ Kanuha takes a self-shaped Olo out for a session near his home on the Big Island. Never mind that…

22.3

Between Strokes

A look at the work of Brooklyn-based contemporary painter Jules de Balincourt, earning his fine art bones with salt-caked neo-folk and a boatload of reference…

22.3

Lightweights Hauling on Sand-Bottom Spinners

Stephanie Gilmore was an unlikely candidate, at first, for Andrew Kidman’s single-finned experiment. Putting a Dave Parmenter-shaped craft through the paces on a three-day run…

22.3

Pseudo Escondido

It’s a crude sport—packing tubes. Take one thumping beachbreak. Add a little performance-enhancing squirt from some modern machinery. The methods are as lawless as the…

22.3

Outre Bar

In Ocean Beach, San Francisco, long period swells are easy to come by. Four-day-long storms from Japan combining with perfect weather are not. Lewis Samuels…

22.3

EuroAtlantica

Touring Western Europe for the filming of The Old, the Young and the Sea—a look at the lesser-explored surfing micro-cultures, and the characters who comprise them,…

22.1

Trapped in the Flames

What’s a traveler to do when a famed surf spot lives down to expectations? During a brief stint on Mauritius, dodging the magnetic pull of…

22.1

Dark Down the Lightness

As a painter, Damian Fulton looks outside the bubble of surf art and its recurrent imagery of aloha prints, woody wagons, and peeling pointbreaks. “That’s…

22.1

The Broken Ground

From the fertile mud of Oahu’s Keawawaihi Valley, Kohl Christensen erected his organic farm and solar-powered compound. Each year he hosts a cast of underground…

22.1

Going South

In ’50s California, there was no vocabulary for describing Phil Edwards’ performance on a wave. Bob Cooper recollects the impact of Phil-spotting during his formative…