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All to Myself
Things were a lot different when Billy Meng started surfing in 1943. He paid $10 for his first surfboard: a Bob Simmons surfboard. Meng lived, worked, and surfed with all the early riders along the Southern California coast and Hawaii. Billy now lives in Santa Barbara's backcountry, still repairing fishing nets, after retiring a veteran commercial fisherman.
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The Light After The Darkroom
TSJ’s founding Photo Editor, Rob Gilley, brought a tight pack of unseen hits from his photo files—spanning Central America to the Eastern Seaboard, the north Pacific to the Caribbean. Rather than providing standard road notes, Gilley arranges the images as a photo essay on the changing nature of surf photography.
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Moving Forward
Over fifty pages of photos and text from George Greenough's collection. This article successfully illustrates the significant role he has played in surfing, shaping, fin technology, kneeboarding,film, and so much more. A piece with an insider's look at surfing from an involved individual who witnessed it first hand and helped develop the sport so much further.
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Local Color
The late Pacific Beach denizen Bradley Buben was known for his eccentricities, his unique style of surfing, and his revolutionary work in resin tints. Those who knew him recall his life and his impact.
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Fool’s Gold
Olympic surfing and its mainstream packaging.
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Spearhead
Academics seek knowledge. Capitalists seek wealth. The Fletchers have chased hedonistic experience. For Herbie Fletcher, this worldview has translated into hanging with the likes of Hynson and Hendrix, ripping hard at Pipe and Maalaea, marrying young and raising hellions, conceiving tow-surfing and the modern surf-vid template, launching Astrodeck and the longboard reintegration, all while beset by critics and mythmakers from the outside. Deconstructing the Fletcher Myth with Herbie, perhaps the most innovative and epicurean member of the clan.
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