Surfer

Interveiw by ASHTYN DOUGLAS If you take a few moments to scroll through Albee Layer’s Instagram account, you’ll see plenty of photos and videos of the Maui native sticking airs that hurt your knees just to watch. Gravity-defying double oops, backside

Interview by ASHTYN DOUGLAS Before this season, you hadn’t won an event since 2012. Fast-forward to today and you’re a world title contender. What’s changed? This year I’ve just got a different kind of a mindset. I’ve always been really competitive a

Interview by ASHTYN DOUGLAS How’d you get your start in surf photography? I’m from the southeast of France. My dad was a sailor and I spent all my weekends on the boat, exposed to the ocean. I discovered surfing when I was 8 and photography when I wa

Interview by JUSTIN HOUSMAN Photos by TED GRAMBEAU In the early 2010s, images of Australia’s Laurie Towner pulling into some of the world’s heaviest barrels were splashed all over magazine spreads and website galleries. Supremely casual in waves that

As told to TODD PRODANOVICH “When I was a kid I’d get that same rush at Kailua Beach Break, then I’d have to get it at Pipe, then the outer reefs, and now we go to Pe'ahi for it. The size of the waves change, but the thrill has always been the same.”

Interview by JUSTIN HOUSMAN Do surfers have a responsibility to be stewards of the environment? At whatever level you participate in surfing, surfers have such an amazingly unique life. It gives us so much. We’re so lucky when you look at the bigger

By JUSTIN HOUSMAN I recently decided to fully embrace the NorCal, outdoorsy-male stereotype that I was already the walking embodiment of, and went out and bought my very first real-deal mountain bike. I spent an embarrassing amount of time researchin

Interview by TODD PRODANOVICH How old are you, exactly? Your mustache makes it very hard to guess. [Laughs.] I’m actually 23 years old. That’s funny because so often the lines you draw look like an homage to an older generation. Did you grow up watch

Interview by TODD PRODANOVICH There are few surfers in the world who look cool just going down the line, but Michael February is one of them. You can study the placement of his knees or hands or every limb in between, but it probably won’t get you an

Interview by SEAN DOHERTY Photos by COREY WILSON I’m not quite sure what to expect when I pull up to Mick Fanning’s house. It’s been three months to the day since his retirement from competitive surfing and he’s been strangely quiet. For months—no, w

The rivalry between Kelly Slater and Andy Irons in the 2000s is the stuff of legend. The two competitive surf titans were seen as diametrically, cosmically opposed. Their conflict was presented as light vs. dark, establishment vs. vanguard, “I love y

Interview by JUSTIN HOUSMAN How did you get into agriculture? I grew up in Hawaii. I put surfing above most other things. I had to be creative as far as eating went so that I wouldn’t have to make lots of money and instead could just surf. When I was

Interview by TODD PRODANOVICH So your son, Banks, is a little over six months old now. I’m guessing things are pretty wild for you at the moment. Yeah, it’s the most amazing thing ever, but it’s also probably the hardest thing ever. It’s a learning p

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