Current issue: 34.2

On the cover: Meta view of Bank Vaults, Mentawai Islands. “That boat is where you would typically anchor to surf and shoot,” says photographer John Barton. “But I was farther down the coast at Nipussi, scanning through a long lens to see if it was getting better elsewhere.” In this issue, we roll up to Santa Barbara for an audience with an outspoken former surf star, slide along with a Japanese logger, patrol Namibia’s coast to free entangled sea mammals, view an Indo shooter’s tropical money shots, hang at a prolific garage rocker’s pad, learn how the ocean can treat post-traumatic stress disorder, and more.

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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.