Pros Before Bros - The ASP needs to hire professionals, not their friends.
The day after Kelly won his ninth world title I picked up my Saturday morning Los Angeles Times—a paper that might be considered a barometer of how the media in the most populous surf city in the world...
View ArticleTears of a Patriot
Shea Lopez The author of SURFER’s Top 32 Review, Shea Lopez spent 11 years competing on the World Tour and now reigns as our resident expert on the pro surfosphere. Well, it happened again, and it...
View ArticleRequiem for a Dream Tour - Rabbit Bartholomew on the parallels between the...
Rabbit Bartholomew is the only man I’ve ever seen cry while describing a wave he’d once surfed. Fair to say surfing means a bit to him. So when the former World Champion took the reins of the ASP in...
View ArticleThe Last SUPper - Rob Gilley on where SUPs fit into our aquatic world.
Recently a friend of mine took me to a hidden surf spot. Not a full-on secret spot really, but more of an out-of-the-way place that I had never surfed or shot before. The weird part is that it’s not...
View ArticleThe Decision - Rob Gilley on the void Dane Reynolds left on the World Tour
I don’t know if you follow traditional sports, but a couple of years ago one of the most famous basketball players of all time, LeBron James, became an unrestricted free agent.
View ArticleVideo Games Will Evolve Our Sport - Surfers can train for real-life scenarios...
Video games could make you a better surfer. A better athlete. I know that sounds ridiculous, but right now, in one of the most competitive professional athletic leagues in the world, the evidence...
View ArticleSpot vs. Break - Does Your Wave Even Qualify As A Real Surf Spot?
There are two surf "zones" in this world: "surf spots,"and the lesser categorized "breaks." A surf spot comes with cultural trappings—history and legend—which transcend national borders and linguistic...
View ArticleThe Church of Yew - An argument for surfing as a religion
Of all the wacky ideas I’ve heard in my life, possibly the wackiest came from an unlikely source: George Downing. A friend told me that at one time George was trying to make a serious bid to have...
View ArticleThe Big Fix - How to Save Pro Surfing (A Fan’s Perspective)
If surfing is so beautiful why is contest surfing so ugly? That’s the question I ask virtually every time I’m watch an ASP event online. Have you ever watched an ASP event online for more than 30...
View ArticleLet’s Begin Again - John Florence's latest clip raises the bar, by going back...
We've been lulled into a stupor by endless clips of logos being waxed followed by mediocre sessions in head-high mush. Begin Again stirred something deep inside us: a memory of what surf films used to...
View ArticleHype Beasts - The recent swell at Teahupoo was a spectacle, but were the...
The much-hyped swell event at Teahupoo has quickly become a real-time global spectacle. Whether or not that spectacle is worth celebrating, however, is something to consider.
View ArticleContently Incomplete - By pandering to our shrinking attention spans, modern...
With progression inevitably comes exclusion. Things are left behind, and we seldom stop to look back. We’ve moved on. Progressed. Matured, maybe. But nostalgia creeps in the wake of what was lost, and...
View ArticleA Moral Dilemma - Can East Coast surfers still be excited about hurricane...
Is this “hurricane-friendly” mindset still OK, given the battering the East Coast has taken over the past few years? With devastating landfall hurricanes like Irene along the Outer Banks and...
View ArticleAll Sexy, No Surfing - The Roxy Pro Biarritz trailer takes "women's surfing"...
Usually, I’m of the opinion that if a girl (surfer or otherwise) is comfortable with herself and wants to pose for a racy photo or video shoot, and people want to pay her money for it, more power to...
View ArticleMake Sure It’s Still Surfing - Are new technologies compromising the...
Wetsuit advancements, altered fin setups, new shapes, and superior surfboard materials changed the how, where, and when we could surf. Most would agree that these innovations have been beneficial, but...
View ArticleDear Creed McTaggart - Please stay in the damn water. It’s the only place...
Creed McTaggart. A fresh-face out of West Oz, a laid-back bloke who listens to The Velvet Underground and has long hair and has for the last six months been perpetual putty for the hippest in surf.
View ArticleBy: nick
This is Surfermag, not your blog. “If people plan surf trips to ride waves at your spot, then your spot is a surf spot.” How am I not going to talk trash on this statement? I should get a job at...
View ArticleBy: ain'tnobodygottimefordis
Surf spot: any SPOT where people SURF. (I don’t even think people say “surf break” anymore). I know this article was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it no work because NO FUNNY. Seriously, guys. If you’re...
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