Surfer

Cultural movements are slippery things. It can be hard to pin down the exact moment when a belief held by a handful of eccentrics makes its way into the current of mainstream thought. What may feel like an overnight change is more often a culmination

Photo by GRANT ELLIS “This is the best time to be a surfer. Depending on what country you’re in, you can really ride whatever. That wasn’t the case back in the day.” Study your elders. Listen to everything they say because you’re gonna be in the same

You may think you know Rincon, with its familiar, tapering walls wrapping from Indicator all the way through the Cove, but if you’d been standing on the cobblestones on December 5, 1969, you likely wouldn’t have recognized what you saw. That’s becaus

Foam, film, canvas and beyond, Campbell is an artist with mastery of many mediums. A sculpture made from used skateboard decks and resin, featured by Campbell in a recent gallery show in San Francisco. “Now this is some crazy shit,” Thomas Campbell s

Over the past few years, Burch has amassed a loyal following of fans enamored with his ability to look stylish on whatever board he has underfoot, whether it’s a mid-length (above) or a pickle-forked board (opposite). You always seem to be riding lef

“The boat we stayed on was insane,” says Young. “It was a traditional Indonesian vessel built out of old mahogany.” Having a wide spectrum of surfcraft aboard doesn’t hurt either. A culmination of surf styles and boards from past and present inform Y

Anderson and Knost, staying entertained between sessions with a couple Bintangs in hand. Whether he’s on a traditional thruster or a ‘70s-inspired single-fin, Anderson’s effortless style has remained unparalleled over the past decade. In the past few

You started surfing pretty late, right? I was around 14 when I got into it. I was really devoted to playing football when I was young and I was going to play in high school until I found out there was surf P.E. Then I decided that would be better tha

Wright, with more style in his fingertips than most have in their entire body. In a lot of ways, you really paved the way for most of the guys on this boat trip in terms of what path they could take in professional surfing. What’s it like surfing wit

Knost’s first appearance in a Thomas Campbell film was 2004’s “Sprout,” where his elegant-yet-frenzied style cast him as a man apart. Here, we see that same distinct form on display in Indo. It would be hard to find a more dynamic rider of mid-length