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Paradise Lost: The Johnson/Okes of Sombrio Beach
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Wali Kam!
Jess Ponting travels to Papua New Guinea and discovers the indigenous people evolved from surfing on wooden "splinter" boards to making their own boards after the introduction of modern surf technology by a traveling Australian pilot. They discover another community of surfers off the surfing map using no commercial surf products. All the boards were handmade from wood. Fin attachments and shape enhancements followed with the introduction in the 1980s of a surf magazine helped propel surfboard design.
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Lost Archipelago
Four surfers take a 47 foot trimaran through a "lost" Pacific Archipelago for six months of wave and island discovery. This article journals their experiences through vivid photos and thoughtful words.
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Not Surfing in the Chatham Islands
Far-flung, cold, sharky, and empty. An excerpt from the new issue of TSJ.
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Best I Ever Saw: Joel Tudor on Skip Frye
“He was cutting through water like I’d never seen before.”
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Gallery: John Comer
Surfer/artist John Comer's work takes the viewer on a colorful journey through some of Southern California's most iconic coastal stretches (including Killer Dana), transferring the essence of a moment in time in an almost experiential manner with an ability to transcend the two-dimensional medium of oil on canvas.
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