#363 Waves

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The Drop
Throughout history, the ocean has been a terrifying protagonist. Characterised by amplitude, wavelength, frequency and speed, a wave transfers energy through matter or space. The sea achieves both: we usually hear it before we see it. A “reverence”
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With Taylor Steele
Will surf movies ever go back to hard copy like DVDs? I don’t think so. So, no, I wish they would go to the vinyl retro sort of thing. But I don’t think music will ever go to CDs, and I don’t believe big movies will go back to DVDs; you’d have a bet
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The Lineup
I always pull up to the spot, park my minivan, pop the doors open and crank the tunes while I change. I made a Spotify mix titled “Surf Turley Amp S--t” made of music from my favourite surf flicks. Cheesy title, but it totally works! It’s a mix of so
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Contributors
Josh AllenKate AllmanJohn AndrewsMat BellRussell BierkeChris BinnsWill BendixTessa BerkeleyDaniel BrennanBrad BricknellMichael CiaramellaLiz ClarkNoah CohanHayden CoxRicky DannAndy DavisKeiran DeckRambo EstradaJaymie FaberSosefina FuamoliLachlan Garu
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EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Lystra Rose EDITOR-AT-LARGE: Chris Coté CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Tim Baker SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: Andrew Shield STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: Travis Johnson OPERATIONS PUBLISHER: Ray Bisschop ADMINISTRATION: Angela Thompson DISTRI
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Savage Cuts
The 2022 WSL Championship Tour has been the most talked about iteration of the “Dream Tour” since the inception of a pro-surfing tour way back in 1976. There has always been plenty of tour talk in lineups and beachside parking lots in the past, but t
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The Half Moon Bay Monster
Mavericks is a monster, but unlike the monster tales and scary stories you heard as a child, this monster is very real, and if you face it, there’s a chance you will be eaten alive. Mavericks came into the collective consciousness of the surf world i
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In The Field With Andrew Shield
Would surfing have such a high impact if masterful sharpshooters didn’t capture that split-second moment? They’ve gifted us time to pour over the details: an aggressive power hack with spray tagging the sky in graffiti-artist attitude and muscles rip
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Sound Waves
In high school, by far my favourite physics classes were the ripple tank experiments. Anyone remember those? We’d be given a square tray of shallow water a bit bigger than a Scrabble board with a couple of little motors driving horizontal bars rapid
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Photo Of The Year
When we told Brazilian-born Pedro Gomes he’d won Photo of the Year, his response was unquestionably enthusiastic: “I am so stoke-ed.” Much like how Italo Ferreira has brought this Brazilian-accented expression to surf fans around the world, we are “s
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Golden Bars
Pure gold. That’s what sand is to surfers. Why else do we call a collection of sand a “bank”? Like we’re off to plunder sunken treasure when a mate calls about a “new bank on the simmer”. Banks of various colours have endless shapes, sizes, and form
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Risk Technicians
Mountainous waves cause the bravest warriors to respect fear in a unique way, because mortality grasps at their jellied spines. Holddowns require superhuman lungs, as whitewash threatens to tear limbs from bodies of big-wave surfers. Bring shallow re
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