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Modern professional surfing’s spotty track record from the IPS to the WSL.

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On his art career, resisting the Gauguin fantasy, despoiled paradise, his manifesto, misanthropy, his ALS diagnosis, and finding beauty in the everyday.

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This tale of mother and son is unique on a variety of levels. Janet MacPherson was not only one of the original hot gal surfers at Malibu (coming along just after Aggie Bain and her flock), she has maintained a healthy pilot light of stoke since those sepia-tinged days. A deeply experienced Bajera, Janet knows more nooks and crannies in Mexico than any dozen sunburned Pacifico-swillers. That’s how she raised here boy, Sean. Sure, he might own and operate the hippest hotels in Manhattan—including the Jane and the Maritime—but it’s comforting to learn that he has the ballast of surf experience keeping his roots moist.

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French surfers tackle the Indo tidal bore wave "Bono". Tetsuhiko Endo's review of Amstel Surf Film Festibal 8 in San Sebastian, Spain. Ever-changing technologies translate to new surf reporting techniques and surf reporting etiquette. Surfing Around, A Gerry Lopez interview excerpted from "Dark Green Religion" by Bron Taylor explores surfing and its relation to spirituality. Passings: Frank Latta and James Stanley Kuuipo Lau, Off-The Lips with Bill Bringhurst, Jim "Finger Mill" Irwin, and Ben Marcus. Spin The Globe: Bukit Peninsula, Bali, Indonesia. Liner Notes is the back story on the creation of The Surfer's Journal 20 year anniversary; Derek Rielly's Martin Potter story; Steve Lis and his twin-keeled, split-tailed, San Diego Fish by Cher Pendarvis; and fine artist Julian Schnabel profile.

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Profile on Larry Bertlemann’s rise to surf stardom in the 1970s and then his disappearance from the scene. Kampion tracks him down in Honolulu. His childhood in Hilo is covered, where he got his first wave from a board rented by Rabbit Kekai in Waikiki, to his early contest career. In the 1980s he was partying lavishly and racing bikes, leading up to an injury that almost left him paralyzed.
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