Editorial Archive

Three-Wave Hold-Down

He remembered a party at a beachfront house overlooking the surf break they called Off the Wall. “Party” meant a…

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—or AMLO, as he is known—flies coach when he goes to Washington, D.C. He fashions…

In 1988, I painted one of those old, really big Pro-Tec helmets black with the Suicidal Tendencies logo on the…

In late summer of 2018, the Indian Ocean was juiced up with back-to-back swells on the immediate forecast and a…

Surfer was born in 1960. Founder John Severson’s initial idea was not an ongoing publication, but a single promotional vehicle…

[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in TSJ 1.1 in 1992. For Steve Pezman’s followup with Mickey nearly 30…

For Basque Countryman Kepa Acero, surf travel is more than chasing swells to the remote parts of the world. It’s…

In the summer of 2015, I made a decision. I was 24, sitting cross-legged on my old bed at my…

There’s The Endless Summer, the movie, which refers to shuffling between the southern and northern hemispheres, spending the entire year…

Nic von Rupp knew that in order to get recognized as one of the best big-wave surfers on the planet,…

Dick Graham had a knack for being in the right place at the right time in early 1963. He was…