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Journal Volume 35.1On the cover: A study in midcentury trim through the archivist’s eye of John E.O. Larronde. Photograph by Grant Ellis/in situ photo and artifact courtesy of the Museum of Ventura County Larronde Collection.In this issue, The Surfers Journal page through Lorronde’s photo albums...

On the cover: Tommy Dalton breathes through his nose and keeps his mouth shut in the rural heartland of New Zealand.TSJ 29.6 nearly breaks the odometer, jumping from an unlikely shaping bay in the Californian desert to trespassing for empty lineups in the Antipodes to checking the reemerging balsa s...

For the first issue in our 30th year of print, we lead off with an image as pure and irreproachable as the pursuit itself.The inner workings of TSJ 30.1 are framed by culture checks: Tracing the early 1960s surf-exploitation film genre, the underappreciated role sanders play in the surfboard-buildin...

Journal Volume 30 No.2On the cover: Mid-morning light. A locked inside edge. Body English born of pure reaction. Some frames just embody the whole big thing. Sam Hawk, Off The Wall, 1975. Page one is backed by a full tracking of the cover subject’s transformation from Huntington surf rat to Pipeli...

Journal Volume 30 No.3On the cover: Kainehe Hunt finds room to stretch amid the backwash chaos on an otherwise picture-postcard afternoon in Hawaii.The issue’s inner workings offer a far-and-wide trip in era, avenue, and geography: Smugglers laying down the original tracks at a famed Indonesian re...

Journal Volume 30 No.4On the cover: Yes, it’s still out there. Kael Walsh finds just what he’s looking for—and finds it all by himself—at quite possibly the most crowded lineup on Earth: the Superbank.Peel back the lid, and the issue offers full-breadth in the topic. Wider-culture points abo...

Journal Volume 30 No.5On the cover: Nathan Fletcher takes a no-frills, only-pop-matters approach above the horizon line at Pipeline’s end.Inside, you’ll explore the surprising wave resources of an overlooked Caribbean island, chase right-hand points up the East Coast of South Africa, and study o...

Journal Volume 30 No.6On the cover: Chippa Wilson double mugs it while, in the immortal words of The Beverly Hillbillies’ Jed Clampett, taking a dip in the “cement pond." Features inside the book offer cuts that span the gamut in craft, era, place, and perspective: A character study of pro surfi...

Journal Volume 31. No. 2On the cover: New Yorker Balaram Stack is well acquainted with tunnels. From the complexities of his hometown’s subway system to the depths of Mainland Mexico tubes, he knows the importance of choosing the right line. Threads inside the issue trace equally varied paths, inc...

Journal Volume 31. No. 3On the cover: John John Florence at Rockpile, brushing up against what Hunter S. Thompson called “The Edge," conjuring an ocean-based version of fanging it on a Vincent Black Shadow. Pistons and gears inside the issue include the arc of Dane Kealoha, Indonesian isolation am...

Journal Volume 31. No. 4On the cover: Simon Murdoch, making every use of his residential knowledge and hanging on by the tip of his single-fin against the sundowner winds, somewhere in the 805.Other drop-ins include the peer study of a shaper’s half century in the game, the surf holdings of an isl...

Journal Volume 31. No. 5On the cover: The mirage-like Palmetto Point, in all its “everything aligns" glory. With access and, potentially, natural sediment distributions at risk due to big-moneyed interests, Barbuda’s already ephemeral wave could become nonexistent, wiped out in place of vacation...

Journal Volume 31. No. 6On the cover: Mason Ho, mid-expectoration at Backdoor.Viewpoints inside the magazine include the mindset of a big-wave bodysurfer, North Shore snaps by a skateboard icon, a chase for birds and swell in Southern Europe, the arrested development of a 1970s surfing playboy, the...

Journal Volume 31. No. 1On the cover: David Nuuhiwa shows the 22nd Street locals some barrel-strength beachboy style. 1964, Hermosa Beach. Photographer LeRoy Grannis’ back-of-print note reveals it was a Friday.From the symbolic figures to the modern punters, the culture pillars to the remote outpo...

Journal Volume 32.1On the cover: Shaun Manners, achieving low orbit somewhere in the Australian desert. “I love getting down to the dez," says photographer Josh Tabone. “It’s cold. It’s raw. It’s a little bit eerie, and it kind of sorts the men from the boys."Other glide paths inside inclu...

Journal Volume 32.2On the cover: Nic von Rupp with his foot on the accelerator in Portugal. “He drove down from the western tip of Europe to meet this swell," says photographer João Bracourt. “The forecast was supposed to be solid—6 feet with 22-second intervals—but Nazaré and Ericeira wer...

Journal Volume 32.3On the Cover: For Frederick Wardy, surfboard building was art and art was an extension of craftsmanship. Prime sample, 1965. Photograph courtesy of Frederick Wardy.Beyond the flaps, we track Wardy’s transition from shaper to fine artist, the bountiful score of a four-deep Aussie...

Journal Volume 32.4On the Cover: Mark Healey dropping through critical airspace at the 2023 Eddie. “I shot this photo from a helicopter using a long lens," says photographer Mike Coots. “As we arrived above Waimea, it was obvious these were some of the biggest waves I’d seen in my life. I can...

Journal Volume 32.6On the cover: Eurico Romaguera, redirecting his 9'9" Gato Heroi “Killer" off the top of a Moroccan runner. “The cat does not offer services," wrote William S. Burroughs, a former Tangier International Zone denizen. “The cat offers itself." Photograph by Simon Fitz.Further do...

Journal Volume 33.1On the cover: Aussie mongrel and TSJ 33.1 profile subject Harry Bryant leaves one of his distinctive animal tracks in North Africa. Photograph by Thomas Robinson. Other lines in the issue include an arbiter’s subjective ranking of 100 postmodern wave riders, a pop-cultural misap...

Journal Volume 33.2On the cover: A view from the back line at Dungeons for Matt Bromley, Fabian Campagnolo, Frank Solomon, and Twiggy Baker. Photograph by Ant Fox. Other vistas in this issue include one photographer’s 30-year Indonesian archive, an epochal rancho California trespass, and the inten...

Journal Volume 33.4On the cover: Noa Deane, Off The Wall. Photo by Ryan Craig. In this issue, we pull into an understudied zone in South America, an outer-island hand-built home in Hawaii, and Paris’ 18th arrondissement—where an artist is hellbent on “transgressing surfing’s codes." We also...

Journal Volume 33.5On the Cover: J Riddle, on location in El Salvador, earning stunt rates via period-correct positioning and equipage during the filming of John Milius’ Big Wednesday. For more on the writer/director’s filmography and impact on wider pop culture, read “Child of the Bomb" on pa...

Journal Volume 34.2Meta view of a Mentawai Islands lineup. “That boat is where you would typically anchor to surf and shoot," says photographer John Barton. “But I was farther down the coast at another spot, scanning through a long lens to see if it was getting better elsewhere." In this issue...