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…

22.1

Surf Salvo

T-Mo and company present the finest selections from Slide Your Brains Out in h style="color: #212737; font-family: Georgia;">is most recent book project.

22.1

Cahiers Du Indonesia

Tony “Doris” Eltherington’s retreat from Australia’s professional surfing spotlight in the ’70s lead him to the perfectly groomed walls of the Bukit Peninsula and endless…

22.1

A Northwest Gothic

In the land of unremitting rain and gray skies, Charlie Smith strains for a glimpse of California sunshine, only to be swell-lashed and kelp-tied to…