We founded Surfer Magazine in 1960 with a mission: to bring our readers a slice of the entire surfing world with each issue. And for over four decades, we've made good on that promise. Every issue of Surfer is packed with spectacular award-winning photos, provocative interviews with the leading pros, and journeys to the coolest undiscovered surf spots. With your order you'll get the Annual Oversized Issue, the Buyer's Guide, and the Hot 100, featuring the world's best new surfers.
Sixty Years of Getting Weird
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SHOP CHRONICLES • HOBIE SURF SHOP
Dwight Pastrana • Pipeline, Oahu
Jodie Cooper, 55 • First Openly-Gay World Tour Surfer, Big-Wave Charger, Assault Survivor, Zero-Shit Taker North Coast, New South Wales
Hall of Strange • The trippiest, funniest and most inexplicable moments in SURFER cover history
The waves of a lifetime. • Our Gerry Lopez collection celebrates six decades spent chasing surf.
SECOND COMING • After a series of near-career-ending injuries, former aerial innovator Wade Goodall finds new ways to channel his erratic creativity with his film “Pentacoastal”
STONER VISION • REVISITING THE IDYLLIC ‘60S SURF SCENE THROUGH THE VIBRANT IMAGERY OF RON STONER
A CROOKED PATH • Pondering the asymmetrical surfboard’s decades-long battle against our deeply-engrained, probably-biological hang-ups
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION • Fifty years ago, the Shortboard Revolution saw the most radical design shifts in the history of surfcraft. Today, that same experimental spirit is alive and well in the surfing and shaping approaches of Torren Martyn and Simon Jones