Surfing World Magazine

Surfing World is the oldest, deepest and most respected surfing magazine in the world. Founded in 1962, it's become a cornerstone of surfing culture both in Australia and right around the globe. It's a premium, high concept magazine, showcasing the best surf writing and photography. It's both classic and contemporary, reflecting the kaleidoscopic surfing culture of today.

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The Murder Wall • Sixty years of the sublime and the ridiculous.

THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS — Laurie’s mob does a lap • It takes a week or two, but when we finally get Laurie Towner on the phone he’s in Carnarvon. “Washing the dust off the kids for the night,” he says. “It’s funny, Chase hasn’t seen TV for weeks but he’s not interested. He’s too busy skating. I suppose he hasn’t seen concrete either.” You can hear Laurie’s young bloke tic-tacking in the background. The Towners are six months into a round Australia trip and have made their way from Yamba all the way to the Great Northwest. They’ve been there six weeks and have no plans to leave.

Moxie Pickles • Postcards From Morgs unveiled the battler’s champion in Morgan Cibilic, but it was Molly Picklum who damn-near stole the entire show. A madcap piece of fiction designed to entertain an Australia in the early stages of lockdown, the film introduced the two fresh faces by pitting them against one another in a high-octane race to secure the last spot on Rip Curl’s prestigious surfing A-Team. Molly – in a heavy metal T shirt, flared jeans, and black helmet fashioned with pink llama stickers and her name across the front in glittering gold letters – won the day with jumps, skids and palm tree pits on her self-titled “Death Unicorn” BMX. And when Morgs finally turned up to realise he’d missed out, she sent him on his way with a smug giggle and full screen flip-off. One hundred per cent moxie.

STOPPING ONE RIG, STOPPING ‘EM ALL — A supercharged campaign • Heath Joske never really got a chance to celebrate his part in saving the Bight. Just as the news broke that the giant Norwegian oil company had pulled out of the Great Australian Bight, taking their rigs with them, the pandemic rolled in and shut everything down. Bight locals didn’t even get the chance for even a barefoot bush-doof.

Gudda Girl. Tahlija belongs to the ocean

PLENTY OF FISH. • Tuncurry has new locals.

THE BIG CHAIR — Brooke Farris has made careers for everybody else. This is the story of her’s. • Waterman’s Bay grom, competitor, heavy water charger, global wanderer and logistic savant, Brooke Farris has seen just about everything that surfing can throw at one person. Somehow, through it all, she’s managed to evade the limelight while she built careers for others, especially female surfers. But now she’s in the Big Chair at Rip Curl, the focus of the surfing public is turning her way. She spoke exclusively to SW about growing up, crashing through and running a beloved brand in the strangest times of all.

Anticipation

THE TOMB

A VIOLENT, SALWATER ESCHER STAIRCASE – Luke Shadbolt’s Maelstrom • “Like, even having witnessed it and shot the sequence and seen it all play out, looking at one frame it’s still a full head-scratch to understand what’s happening.” The waves in Luke Shadbolt’s book, Maelstrom take some comprehending, even for him. “It’s an interesting thought experiment to understand everything that’s gone into that exact moment. Like, the swell confluence over thousands of miles and then, right at the last minute, it’s refracted off this cliff face at the exact angle and sent back out to meet the next swell. I saw these waves live and some of them still don’t make sense.”

HAZ AND NOZ — a roadie.

Life and Deaths. Listen to Baddy. • If you’re lucky, in life you get one or two great...