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 374: AUTUMN 40 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

WITH PETER MORRISON • 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 Peter Morrison (PM), the founder of Australia’s Surfing Life magazine, who left Aotearoa—the land of the long white cloud—figuratively paddled across the Tasman Sea and migrated to warmer Queensland waters, then launched his lifestyle-cum-business dream, Morrison Media, which would become one of Australia’s largest, privately owned media enterprises.

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WORLD CLUB CHALLENGE • Bragging rights to what pro surfers deem the event of the year

VANIMO’S BIKPELA SOLWARA • Grainger siblings Bella and Tas surf in PNG’s paradise

THE SURFING LIFE OF JOEL “PARKO” PARKINSON • When work is play and play sends spray

THE SURFING LIFE OF LEIHANI KALOHA ZORIC • A rainbow behind the clouds

SURFING (MID) LIFE • The former enfant terrible turns 40

PHOTO OF THE YEAR • Rambo Estrada, winner of the Surfing Life PHOTO OF THE YEAR ... brought to you by SUN ZAPPER and KGUARD

BACK IN THE BRINE • Tips, tricks, brain hacks, physical wins and emotional support to overcome big and small setbacks

SPEED VERSUS ACCELERATION • The right sled for the right conditions may not be the fastest board in your quiver

AUTUMN THE ART OF “BEING” AN OCEAN’S METRONOME A BLUE BEAT CHANGING WITH TIDE SWELL, WIND, AND HEAT

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!