Surfer

What is a wave really worth? This question was at the front of my mind as Grant Ellis (SURFER photo editor) and I were driving past sprawling cow pastures on our way home from a session at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch in Lemoore, California. Just a few

Tom Carroll, 56 Two-Time World Champion Sydney, Australia “No matter who you are, you’ll face highs and lows in a long and successful career. When you’re down and need to lift yourself back up, that’s when the hard work truly pays off." We choose our

Some Major League Baseball pitchers hop over the chalk baseline on their way back to the dugout at the end of an inning because they know that if they don’t, something terrible will happen. Step on that chalk line, and you’re practically guaranteed t

For most workaday surfers, injuries in the water are rare. Sure, we occasionally collide with our boards, fins, a chunk of reef or a stranger (mostly the latter if you surf Trestles). But throughout our surf lives, most of us receive relatively few i

A harrowing bird’s-eye view of Maria’s destruction on the coast of St. Croix. The Caribbean had solid surf earlier in the season, but it didn’t hold a candle to this. With the trade winds down, cerulean glass met focused power radiating from Hurrican

Photos by SAGE BURGESS (All oil on canvas) 53 “California Revisited,” 48" x 30", 2011 55 “Afternoon,” 30" x 50", 2017 56 “Narcolepsy,” 24" x 48", 2013 57 “Mother’s Sky,” 30" x 50", 2016 57 “Memories of Yesterday,” 36" x 36", 2013 58 “Beauty School Dr

There can be nothing better than cracking open a few cold ones around a fire after a day packing uncrowded, kegging tubes. Standing at the edge of a verdant cliff on a cold, fall morning in Southern Chile, local tube hound Ramón Navarro couldn’t beli

The August 1974 issue of SURFER magazine featured a satirical piece by Drew Kampion titled “How I Surfed And Won In The 1984 Olympics,” mocking the fast-approaching era of professional surfing. It opened like this: “When the Olympic Games came to Haw

Photos by TODD GLASER In the middle of the South Pacific, there’s an island chain gilded with reefs known by a select few surfers to sculpt big northern hemisphere swells into beautiful, rifling barrels. Along these perfectly situated isles, there’s

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