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 GREG HAYES • 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 yarn with Greg Hayes from Surf Travel Insurance, as he peers into the distance.

TITLE WAVE • Henry and Huppatz, World Junior Champs

FRAMED

MORE THAN A SUSHI ROLL • Tokyo offers surf travellers a two-for-one combo

THE SURFING LIFE OF COCO CAIRNS • A style defined by Noosa’s roping rights

THE SURFING LIFE OF NATHAN COOK • Tri-boardrider member, Cookie’s competitive yet chill

BARREL CHASERS AND CULTURE SHAPERS • From objects in the shot to authors of the image: how women transformed surf films

WHAT THE F-STOP? • Shooter profile: award-winning photographer Christa Funk

PERFORMANCE OR PLACEBO? • The cold, hard truth about the hard, cold plunge

NOT FOR INFLATED EGOS • The right tool for the right task

MAY THE RHYTHM OF THE SEA GUIDE YOU THROUGH TREACHEROUS RIPS, BLINDING MIST ’N’ BLANKETING FOG MERE INKLINGS OF A SURFER’S TRAVELOGUE

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!