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 coming … lines on surfing’s horizon. This issue Josh Allen, from World Surfaris, looks into the distance.
Flex-Strength-Weight • Being a company to approach things in a logical manner and liking to be buried up to our knees in facts, we shall approach this in the same way: What is special about longboards and why is NOTOX the solution?
THE LINEUP
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CONTRIBUTORS
OPENING THE BACKDOOR AND ENTERING PIPE • Despite being advised to stay out of the water, Tyler Wright wins Maui Pro at Pipe
FOOTPRINTS OF THE GREATS • Shaping decades of surfers, surf travel, and photographers
PLEASURE AND PAIN • From the sublime Great Barrier Reef to life-saving surgery
AGAINST THE FLOW • Is sanctuary closer to home than we might think?
ROAD TRIPPING • Four-wheeled freedom
TO NAME OR NOT TO NAME • Who’s spilling surfing’s secrets?
ULUWAT-YOU WAITING FOR? • Finding space in the grand surf-scape
The Perfect Holiday
THE FIRST 100 NEW SUBSCRIBERS RECEIVE A FREE PAIR OF RIP CURL INVISIBLE SOCKS
CLASSIC 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!