Depending on which way you look at it, surfing has never been more interesting… or less. But good luck trying to put surfing today in a box. It’s simultaneously moving forward, backwards, sideways, nowhere… while shooting off into parallel dimensions.
The counterculture has been countered. Dangerous surfing ideas made safe. There’s equal parts evolution and deevolution. There are singlefins being ridden in wavepools. Surfing has long moved on from being a single culture. Today, it’s thousands of them.
But at the end of the day, this list is simply 50 surfers doing their thing. Three members of the list are presently living in their cars. Two have just won world titles. Another two are building a boat. One is sailing a boat made of rubbish across Bass Strait. One survived…
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Surfing World (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 424