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.

ED’S WORDS

UP AHEAD • 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 STEVE SHEARER SETS US STRAIGHT.

THE FAMILY

Surfing Life

WHAT’S IN A TITLE?

DE-CODING THE OLYMPIC DREAM

WHEN POOLS WAR, WE WIN!

HISTORY OF GEN4 SURFBOARDS

HOTTEST 100 • They are our future and we want to acknowledge them. This is 2019’s Hottest 100 guys and girls under 18.

A PATCH OF LIGHT • Anxious about the state of the world? Feel like dark clouds are crowding out the sun? May we prescribe a morning in the delightful company of pro surfer and environmentalist Pacha Light?

MIND OVER MATTER • The remarkable resilience of Ollie Dousset.

NO WILTING FLOWER • Jodie Cooper draws a line in the sand.

SURF BY DAY JAM BY NIGHT • Music and surfing have always gone together … especially if the musicians surf as well as Ash Grunwald.

DARK SIDE OF THE DREAM TOUR • Life after professional surfing with Luke Munro and Nathan Hedge.

‘TILL DEATH DO US PART • 1998 World Title contender Mick Campbell and his hard-charging, world-class, water-woman girlfriend, Tahlija Redgard, share a unique bond forged under the most harrowing circumstances imaginable.

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