Surfing Life

Surfing Life has helped shape and inform generations of surfers for over four decades. Our mission is to help make you a better surfer. We do this by publishing four issues based on the six pillars of the surfing experience - Surfers, Surfboards, Waves, Culture, Travel and Technique - each issue dedicated to all of these subjects, providing you with the substance, depth and focus that makes it worth buying. This is the purpose of a surf mag in the digital age - to inspire and inform, to be an essential source of reference to the active surfer. At a minimum of 100 pages, with high production values, the best imagery, insights from the world’s best surf scribes, there’s no doubt why Surfing Life has been at the forefront of surf media for over four decades. Surfing Life is BRIGHT in an intelligent and colourful way. Surfing Life is BRASH, poking fun, but at themselves as much as others. Surfing Life is BRAVE, to take on the tough topics. Surfing Life is the magazine with something for everyone. Surfing Life is Made From Surfing.

THE DROP

FORECAST • IT’S A PRIVILEGE TO SIT AND CHAT WITH INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE. SOMETIMES THEY’RE FAMOUS, MOST TIMES THEY’RE MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE THAN US, AND OFTEN THEY GIVE A GLIMPSE INTO WHAT’S UP AHEAD … LINES ON SURFING’S HORIZON. THIS ISSUE NIK STRONG-CVETICH LOOKS INTO THE DISTANCE.

THE LINEUP

Surfing Life

DANCING UGLY • AFTER COVID-19, WILL THE SURF INDUSTRY FIND ITS RHYTHM?

REBEL RESET • BEACH CLOSURES ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE LEFT SURFERS IN QUITE THE CONUNDRUM

GWC2020 • GLOBAL WAVE CONFERENCE 10TH – 14TH FEBRUARY 2020

WSL RETURNS TO YEAR ZERO • ACE BUCHAN AND MITCH CREWS ON THE INS AND OUTS OF THE WORLD TOUR’S BIG RESET

Shooting Waves • Down the barrel with John Respondek

Endangered WAVES • With thousands of kilometres of Australian coast, should we worry? Well, what if your waves were endangered?

COLD WATER WAVES

Crowded WAVES • Human soup, floundering in a sea of fibreglass and foul language.

EMPTY WAVES • An empty belly makes you rumble: Do empty waves make you drool?

PHOTO OF THE YEAR • Our biggest congratulations to Tom Pearsall, winner of the inaugural Surfing Life Photo of the Year.

UP NEXT

SUBSCRIBE • SUBSCRIBE AND RECEIVE FREE EITHER VISIONS OF AN AUSTRALIAN COAST OR VISIONS OF TROPICAL ISLANDS WHILE STOCKS LAST

KILLER READS! • The Surfing Life online bookstore is chocked full of great surfing literature. With legendary stories from some of the greatest and most-loved icons of the industry, as well as some riveting fiction and stunning photo essays!