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A reader-supported surf publication founded in 1992, The Surfer’s Journal is vivid, authoritative, and independent. The goal of each 132-page bimonthly edition? A completely resolved composition. Balance. Color. Story. And purist surf energy from Page One to close-of-book.

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The Momentum Generation defined the 1990s, but as Ross Williams explains about surfing’s greatest boy band, it wasn’t all shakas and quick edits. Whether it was winning world titles, getting the last section of a Taylor Steele film, or reeling in the cutest girl at the bar, it was the competitive nature of Kelly Slater, Shane Dorian, Rob Machado and the rest of them that fueled the revolution.