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A photo spread of Jamie Scott's "Southern Winter" in Australia and the big wave riding of local ozzies on some of the gnarliest waves to date, even becoming nominated as one of the finalists in the 2007 Billabong XXL Awards.
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Paul Gross’ article on the long-to-shortboard changeover from the late 1960’s into the early-‘70’s. Gross argues that the Hawaiian low-railed mini-gun adaptations, not the Australian wide-backed V-bottoms, were the more functional and influential innovations of this period.
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On being held hostage by Somali pirates, the power of optimism, his first phone call, sanity and remembrance, anger, and forgiveness.
At the outset of World War II, Southern California became the white-hot center of modern aeronautics. During the postwar era, the same groundbreaking materials, space-age expertise, and principles of physics were crossbred into surfboards, changing the trajectory of wave craft forever.
Captain Cook didn’t have to go to Hawaii to find good surf, it was right out his backdoor all along. With a handful of hard-charging Europeans in tow, Alastair Mackinnon proves that the U.K. can still play the power card.
On Pipeline, the Shortboard Revolution, and the art of the clean exit