Surfing Life

Surfing Life has helped shape and inform generations of surfers for over four decades. Our mission is to help make you a better surfer. We do this by publishing four issues based on the six pillars of the surfing experience - Surfers, Surfboards, Waves, Culture, Travel and Technique - each issue dedicated to all of these subjects, providing you with the substance, depth and focus that makes it worth buying. This is the purpose of a surf mag in the digital age - to inspire and inform, to be an essential source of reference to the active surfer. At a minimum of 100 pages, with high production values, the best imagery, insights from the world’s best surf scribes, there’s no doubt why Surfing Life has been at the forefront of surf media for over four decades. Surfing Life is BRIGHT in an intelligent and colourful way. Surfing Life is BRASH, poking fun, but at themselves as much as others. Surfing Life is BRAVE, to take on the tough topics. Surfing Life is the magazine with something for everyone. Surfing Life is Made From Surfing.

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SURFING LIFE

WITH CHRIS BUYKX • Our global ocean community brims with unexpected characters. Sometimes, they’re famous. Most times, they’re more knowledgeable than we are. Ofttimes, they glimpse into what’s coming: lines on surfing’s horizon. A forecast predicts a future event or trend; we talk with surf travel specialist, Chris Buykx, from Perfect Wave, as he peers into the distance at the future of surf travel.

ENDLESS SUMMER? • The Future of the WSL at 50

FRAMED

THE SHOULDER’S SHADOW • Cookie scores solo sessions in G-Land’s pre-season

THE SURFING LIFE OF REEF HEAZLEWOOD • Pro duality: freesurfer and Tour-hunter

THE SURFING LIFE OF KEELY ANDREW • Late-starter attitude generates World Tour aptitude

LET THE GOODTIMES ROLL • Gail Austen, Queen of the underdogs, when hard work wins the fight

TOUR WITHOUT TIDES • Will the globalisation of wave pools create its own series?

THE OVERTRAINED GENERATION • Learning a new playbook

REPAIRING THE RIDE • No road is long with good company and a ding kit

WAVES, RINSED AND COMBED BY WINDS AFAR A HYMN OF MOONSTRUCK WONDER THUNDER-WOKE THROUGH SWELL ’N’ TIDE A LIQUID SOUL, SPUN OCEAN WIDE

LOSE YOURSELF TIME TO ESCAPE • The Surfing Life online bookstore is chocked full of great surfing literature. With legendary stories from some of the greatest and most-loved icons of the industry, as well as some riveting fiction and stunning photo essays!