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.

THE DROP

FORECAST • IT’S A PRIVILEGE TO SIT AND CHAT WITH INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE. SOMETIMES THEY’RE FAMOUS, MOST TIMES THEY’RE MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE THAN US, AND OFTEN THEY GIVE A GLIMPSE INTO WHAT’S COMING … LINES ON SURFING’S HORIZON. THIS ISSUE DAMIEN BENSLEY, GM OF COLAN, LOOKS INTO THE DISTANCE.

Tough as Flax

THE LINEUP

CONTRIBUTORS

Surfing Life

BOOM TOWN! • THE SURF INDUSTRY’S SILVER LINING

PLAN B • BRING THE WORLD TOUR DOWN UNDER

BRAND X • NEW GUARD ACCELERATES INDUSTRY EVOLUTION

SHAPING VS. SCRAPING • Navigating the myths of modern-board design

VOLUME CONTROL • Do you need to dial it up or down?

ULTIMATE SURF ROAD TRIP • SURF COAST EDITION

PERFORMANCE WHEN IT MATTERS!

MIXED QUIVER SLED REVIEW

BURST

GROUND 4220

DOUBLE DARE

COHORT I

FOX

SEAL TEC-BLACKBIRD

MODFISH PRO

SHIV

QUAD 5’4”

MAYTRIX

BOARD BIBLE PATRONS • OUR SLED REVIEW HOOK-UPS

DON’T BLAME THE SHAPER • The missing link between shaper and surfer

MATERIAL WORLD • It’s hard living in a material world unless materials make it easier

SAFEST FIN IN THE WATER WINS AWARD • Could fin chops be a scar of the past?

POP UP LIKE A PRO • Each wave is a chance to begin again

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