Current issue: 34.1

On the cover: Ian Crane, South America. “We were at a lesser-known point with just a couple locals,” says photographer and TSJ photo editor Grant Ellis. “It was late in the day, the light was just getting right, and the waves were solid. Ian’s best known for being really progressive, but he’s also smooth. He was experimenting with a four-fin, drawing his turns out as far as he could at full speed.” In this issue, a shaper hellbent on fast cars and boards shares his checkered past, a three-time world champ sessions Kiwi slabs alone, and a death-cheating big-wave rider talks reality TV gone wrong. Across other spectrums, two brothers brave Antarctica’s ruthless climes in search of waves, a contemporary French photographer opens his golden-age-inspired file, a South Bay writer ponders her impermanence, and a French artist sends her sculptures into Puerto Escondido’s shorebreak.

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Varanger, Faraway

Breaking the compass in the clear, dark north.

The End of The Endless Summer

An excerpt from Mike Hynson’s autobiography Transcendental Memories of a Surf Rebel.

A Moment of Reflection 2024

A tribute to the wave riders we lost this year.

A Semi-Search for Nowness

Road slices during the filming of “Sprout” with Dan Malloy, Belen Connelly, and Alex Knost.

Return to the Bering

Screening exclusively for TSJ members from November 1-7

The Last Urchin Diver

Surfer and bottom-scratcher Conner Rhoads is one of the youngest holdouts in a shrinking old-world trade. Join him for a dive through the tides of change.

Searching for Arcadia in Lebanon, Tunisia, and Egypt

A short film documenting Kepa Acero and Marc Durà’s travels in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean, where the surf and bodies politic can flip on a dime.

By the Horns

Joey Cabell on his impromptu bull fight, speed sailing, skiing, the power of commitment, and shaping and riding the White Ghost.

A Lousy Slave

Avant-garde artist, shaper, and performer Peter Schroff emerged from Echo Beach in the 1980s, a decade ahead of his time. Thirty-years later, he’s up to his same old tricks.