Editorial - Page 22 of 144 - The Surfers Journal

The High Line: January 2023

TSJ’s monthly digs concerning surf, mostly.

3.3

The Pat Curren Gun Project

In 1993, Steve Pezman commissioned a quiver of period-correct balsa guns from the master craftsman.

Foam Dust – 25 Years of FCD Surfboards, Presented by Patagonia

The indefinite history of Fletcher Chouinard Designs.

Barton Lynch

The ’88 world champ on anarchy, his childhood at Whale Beach, hitch-hiking, method-acting as an athlete, and being disciplined in the pursuit of your dreams.

Kassia Meador

The California native on her life-changing wave at Noosa, harmonic resonance, and the lessons she learned from Donald Takayama.

Yvon Chouinard

On climbing, breaking the rules, protecting what you love, the virtues of simplicity, capitalism and Patagonia, surfing Malibu in the golden era.

Joel Tudor

On winning a world title at 45, Pipeline, his greatest mentors, the importance of style, and turning pro at the age of fourteen.

New Moon Madness

An excerpt from TSJ 31.6’s “Thirteen O’Clock: The End of the Worlds, Ocean Beach, October, 1972.”

A Moment of Reflection 2022

A tribute to the wave riders we lost this year.

Choice Cuts

A selection of some of our favorite stories published in 2022.

31.6

On Style

Exploring the raw-boned, disorderly, and idiosyncratic moments as a counterweight to the polished.

31.6

Dancing About Architecture

The fraught practice and checkered history of writing about the physical act of riding waves.