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 PAM BURRIDGE • 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 1990 World Champion Pam Burridge, as she peers into the distance.

WSL VS. ISA • Jumping through newly polished Olympic hoops

FRAMED

WEDDING POSTPONED-GONE SURFING! • When the Solomon Islands call, Kirra-Belle Olsson answers

THE SURFING LIFE OF DAKODA WALTERS • Pro duality: freesurfer and Tour-hunter

THE SURFING LIFE OF ISLA HUPPATZ • From graduation to gromNATION

THE TEZZAS ON A TEAR • Rocking coastal towns by night, surfing point breaks by day

DON’T DREAM THE CT’S OVER • The Dream Tour bucket list revived

NOT THE AVERAGE SNOWFLAKE • How to prep for cold-water surfing?

WATERBOARDING • Coercing a confession out of shaper Jason Stevenson

A BARREL, LEFT OR RIGHT A PORTHOLE OF CHANCE A PIPEDREAM, LEADING TO LIGHT