Tracks

Tracks is Australia's leading surfing magazine. For over 40 years Tracks has tapped into the minds of cheeky grommets and grizzled gurus alike, and remains the voice of hardcore surfing in Australia today. Every month it takes you to the most exotic surfing locations, fills you in on what's happening on the pro-circuit as well as at your local beaches. Tracks is the surfer's bible.

The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum. • IT’S ALWAYS MUCH MORE FUN WHEN THAT HAPPENS.

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Classic Cover • WAYNE LYNCH – OCTOBER 1973

Tracks’ Sustainability Tips • HOW TO TREAD MORE LIGHTLY ON THE PLANET - SEAFOOD

Guns of Steel • OCCY’S SMASH AND GRAB AT THE RICHEST CONTEST IN THE WORLD.

UNPRECEDENTED SURFING MOMENTS IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC.

FAST TIMES WITH KELLY SLATER • HOW KELLY’S BALI HOLIDAY BECAME A HIGH-SPEED, INDO ODYSSEY.

UNFORGETTABLE DAYS IN FIJI • CROWD-FREE GLORY AT CLOUDBREAK FOR A LOCAL CREW.

TROPICAL OSCILLATIONS • HIGHS AND LOWS OF THE WSL’S HAWAIIAN SEASON

“MAURUURU TEAHUPO’O … MERCI” • LOCKDOWNS AREN’T SO BAD WHEN TEAHUPO’O IS YOUR LOCAL.

CONOR MAGUIRE’S GOLDEN TICKET • NO SWELL OF THIS MAGNITUDE SHOULD EVER GO UNRIDDEN.

THE SURF POLICE ARE COMING TO GET YOU • NOT EVERY AUSTRALIAN SURFER WAS FREE TO PADDLE OUT DURING THE PANDEMIC.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM • MOSQUITO INDUCED DELERIUM, OR A SURFING FANTASY REALISED?

Mason Ho & the Ridlle of Infinite Fun • HAVE MASON HO, RORY PRINGLE AND SHELDON PAISHON FIGURED OUT HOW TO HAVE A GOOD TIME ALL THE TIME?

AN ODE TO MARVELLOUS MARTY • REMEMBERING THE COSMICALLY CHARGED SURF PHOTOGRAPHER WHO HELPED DEFINE MODERN SURF CULTURE.

STAY WHERE YOU ARE NZ I’M COMING OVER ( EVENTUALLY ) • OREGON BASED PHOTOGRAPHER, MARK MCINNIS DOCUMENTS AN EERILY FAMILIAR COLD-WATER PARADISE IN NEW ZEALAND.

THE STAGE BELONG TO PAULINE • PAULINE MENCZER HAS MANY STORIES TO TELL AND NONE OF THEM ARE BORING.

TOM HOYE & DA CLAW • TOM HOYE TOOK HIS EARLY CUES FROM JACK O’NEILL IN CALIFORNIA AND THEN MOVED TO OZ WHERE HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN USHERING IN THE TWIN FIN MOVEMENT. HOWEVER, FOR THE LAST FORTY YEARS THERE IS ONE DESIGN HE’S BEEN OBSESSED WITH.

In God’s Hands • HOW DIVINE INTERVENTION, SHANE DORIAN, AND THE LEAD SINGER FROM POISON HELPED GET THE MOVIE MADE.

Who really was the first Australian surfer? • GNUNG-A GNUNG-A’S 18TH CENTURY SURF TRIP TO HAWAII.

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