Growing up on the east coast, my summers were spent in Saltaire, Fire Island. As early as I can remember Birdies or “trou,” as they were affectionately called, were these...

Peanut butter and jelly. Green eggs and ham. Gerry and Pipeline. Mikey and Twin Pin. Some things pair magnificently, and thus become greater than the sum of its parts. Such...

Ned Evans’s H20s drip with ocean. A surfer for sixty years, these drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures, made over the last 25 years, convey his immersion and obsession with...

On a typical day in their charmed and sunstruck lives, Davis and Skyler Diamond will slide across waves on finless boards by morning and make music in their home studio...

Surfing is a delicious dance. And in some parts of Southern California, it’s a delicious dance involving righthand pointbreaks, in which riders gain an intuitive, almost familial relationship with the...

Paz Lenchantin is a Pixie. Not the wild-eyed, supernatural kind (though she exudes some of that), but a Pixie as in the alternative rock band, for which she plays bass....

Surfing is many things. For Italo Ferreira, it’s blasting a massive, spinning, yet-to-be-named air move in the dying seconds of a WSL final. For Maya Gabeira, it’s flying down a...

Aska Matsumiya spent her childhood in Japan, moved to California when she was twelve, and presently lives in Malibu, where she makes music and rides waves. I first encountered her...

Surf memories lodge in the brain in interesting ways. There’s the more literal representation: a set of bottle-green waves rising from the kelp beds, steepening, and peeling in almond-shaped glory....

I first encountered the work of Natalie Arnoldi at a friend’s house. Presiding over the dining table was a life-size painting of a great white shark. It was realist and...

Many years back, I wrote a book called Have Board, Will Travel: The Definitive History of Surf, Skate, and Snow. It was deliciously fun to write, mainly because I got...

“They were born out of the pandemic and the wildfires,” says Kassia Meador. “We couldn’t really go outside and we were like, ‘Man, we just want to be with people....

Rachel Lord shaped her first board at age 33.             “It felt like a culmination of a lot of different areas in which my life had been previously compartmentalized when it...

Artist Russell Crotty’s surf drawings are visceral, gestural, and alive. They move forward with such kinetic force that your hair nearly blows back just looking at them.      ...

Richard Kenvin ran his hand along the rail of a freshly shaped fish. We stood in a backyard shaping room in La Jolla. Outside the door were dozens of surfboards,...