Editorial
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A Screeching Start
The first iteration of surf-skate style incorporated wooden two-by-fours with metal roller-skate wheels attached to trucks that were split and…
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The High Line: May 2021
Hello from the North Shore of Oahu, from my house up the hill in Pupukea, on another lovely morning. The…
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Behind the Peak
“In the Hall of the Mountain King,” featured in the latest edition of TSJ, frames a 12-page close-up of South…
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On Style
From the ASP Judging Criteria, 2000 (abridged): “The surfer must perform committed radical maneuvers in the most critical sections of…
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Either You Surf or You Fight
We were migrants from wave-starved states. Raised on competitive sports and capitalism, we went at surfing with the same get-out-there-and-fight…
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Under the Wave
The author of 29 novels, 12 travel books, and five other works of nonfiction, it’s not hyperbole to say that…
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Night and the Iguana
The occasional tourist wanders up from Mismaloya Beach below, but, for the most part, it is a silent and deserted…
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Keep Dreaming
Once upon a time, style mattered. If you watch classic movies starring Humphrey Bogart, Sean Connery, or Paul Newman, you’ll…
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The Screwtape Letters
This corner of Spain is lousy with specters—the ground riddled with corpses of luminaries like Cristóbal Balenciaga or those who…
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Tiger Style
There’s no indication from the street of what goes on behind a tidy garden of palms and hedges in front…
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Pumpjack
January 17, 1972, the surf came up overnight out of the west. There was some light wobble in the morning,…
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In the Hall of the Mountain King
A briny stench of kelp rises up to the viewing deck at Long Beach in Kommetjie, a small village located…