Podcast - Page 3 of 5 - The Surfers Journal

Jock Sutherland

On riding switch, finding his way to Pipeline, the recipe for a perfect trip, Waimea’s mechanics, clean living, the virtue of humility, and enlisting in…

Michael Scott Moore

On being held hostage by Somali pirates, the power of optimism, his first phone call, sanity and remembrance, anger, and forgiveness.

Takuji Masuda

On nose-riding at Pipeline, mentors, curation and Super X Media, Bunker Spreckels, and facilitating connections between tradition and youth culture in Japan.

Chris Malloy

On filmmaking, name calling, assimilating to the North Shore, the Momentum Generation, surfing in Chile with Miki Dora, imposter syndrome, and searching for waves in…

Ashley Bickerton

On his art career, resisting the Gauguin fantasy, despoiled paradise, his manifesto, misanthropy, his ALS diagnosis, and finding beauty in the everyday.

Selema Masekela

On the democratization of what it means to be a surfer, combating “surf-bro” purism through commentating, his father, music, racism, self-discovery, and surfing’s future.

Lisa Andersen

On winning world titles, motherhood, fandom, paying homage, traditional lines, Tom Curren, trying to fit in, and how one piece of clothing altered her life.

Gerry Lopez

On his Pipeline love affair, minimalism, finding stillness, the shortboard revolution, yoga, and his relationship to fame.

An Introduction to Soundings: Season 04

Listen to the trailer episode for the latest season of TSJ’s audio series.

Mick Fanning

On stepping off the world tour, grief, finding solace in competitive surfing, and dealing with the aftermath of his near-shark attack at J-Bay.

Raymond Pettibon

On purism and art making, punk, surf culture, misheard song lyrics, art world disenchantment, what keeps him going as an artist, and Black Flag.

Kathy Kohner aka “Gidget”

On the Gidget enterprise, surfing Malibu in the 1950s, feminism, Malibu’s cachet among the Hollywood intelligentsia, the beach, and boys.