Editorial
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Bay of the Wizard
Rizal Tandjung Desa Limasan is special to my family. There’s not much there. It’s just our property near a small…
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Local Color
Pacific Beach, 1984 The sun is out and a light breeze is riffling the ocean a block or two away.…
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Vast Spaces
Both Sides Now It’s nearly 9 p.m. on a late-summer night, just outside of Punta Mita, Nayarit, on Mexico’s Pacific…
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The Seminar Sessions
It’s early in the afternoon on a Monday in late August. I’ve spent the past 34 hours in transit. I’ve…
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The Opportunist
Hailing from Sydney’s hot, dry outer suburbs, Josh Tabone found his entry into wave riding when his mother packed him…
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Café Racer
Picture Peru. If you haven’t had the pleasure, summon clichés. Employ prejudice. Plump reed boats in the surf. An arid…
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Light Waves
Each morning when he lived as an expat in Berlin, artist Sean O’Brien sat down at his kitchen counter and…
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Teenage Wasteland
Mike Chipko had his front teeth knocked out in a drunken bar fight of which he had little recollection. He…
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Pat Curren Requiem
On January 20, 2023, 90-year-old Pat Curren passed away while camped in the San Diego area. Pat was a major…
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Lisa Andersen
Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube Lisa Andersen’s surf story began at age 13 in the early 1980s in…
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O Beachboy, Where Art Thou?
In TSJ’s 32.3’s “O Beachboy, Where Art Thou?” author Beau Flemister braves Waikiki in search of its original caretakers of…
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Gerry Lopez
Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube Hawaiian stylist Gerry Lopez couldn’t make a takeoff during his first time surfing…