Surfing Life

Surfing Life has helped shape and inform generations of surfers for over four decades. Our mission is to help make you a better surfer. We do this by publishing four issues based on the six pillars of the surfing experience - Surfers, Surfboards, Waves, Culture, Travel and Technique - each issue dedicated to all of these subjects, providing you with the substance, depth and focus that makes it worth buying. This is the purpose of a surf mag in the digital age - to inspire and inform, to be an essential source of reference to the active surfer. At a minimum of 100 pages, with high production values, the best imagery, insights from the world’s best surf scribes, there’s no doubt why Surfing Life has been at the forefront of surf media for over four decades. Surfing Life is BRIGHT in an intelligent and colourful way. Surfing Life is BRASH, poking fun, but at themselves as much as others. Surfing Life is BRAVE, to take on the tough topics. Surfing Life is the magazine with something for everyone. Surfing Life is Made From Surfing.

ISSUE 373: SUMMER

WITH ROD BROOKS • Our global ocean community brims with unexpected characters. Sometimes, they’re famous. Most times, they’re more knowledgeable than us. Ofttimes, they glimpse into what’s coming: lines on surfing’s horizon. Forecast predicts a future event or trend; we yarn with former ASP Chairman of Events, former ASP Board Member, former ISA Technical Chairman, and 25-year veteran at Quiksilver before retiring, Rod Brooks, as he peers into the distance.

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CONTRIBUTORS

SURFING LIFE

2024 WRAP-UP • Prophesied champions & the inevitable rise of surf longevity

FRAMED

DESERT POINT & DIRT BIKES • Nathan Cook surfs with West Nusa Tenggara’s rising talent

HOTTEST 100 • Surfing’s most-talented Aussie groms rip through 2024’s ranks

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS • The genesis of all things surf and all surf things

CITY-CENTRE SURFING • Ten-time Dutch national champ Mirna Boelsma and eternal frother Simon de Roode test Rotterdam’s consistent canal swell

BATHYMETRY BEHAVIOUR • How to surf different bottoms so you don’t hit rock bottom

ROCKETING ROCKERS • The accelerator pedal of every surfboard

SUMMER SPRINTING OVER SCORCHING SAND; SWIMMERS, A COLOURFUL BLUR. WE FROTH ON CYCLONIC SWELL BUT NOT THE CARNAGE THAT OCCURS.

LOSE TIME TO ESCAPE YOURSELF • The Surfing Life online bookstore is chocked full of great surfing literature. With legendary stories from some of the greatest and most-loved icons of the industry, as well as some riveting fiction and stunning photo essays!