Surfing Life

Surfing Life has helped shape and inform generations of surfers for over four decades. Our mission is to help make you a better surfer. We do this by publishing four issues based on the six pillars of the surfing experience - Surfers, Surfboards, Waves, Culture, Travel and Technique - each issue dedicated to all of these subjects, providing you with the substance, depth and focus that makes it worth buying. This is the purpose of a surf mag in the digital age - to inspire and inform, to be an essential source of reference to the active surfer. At a minimum of 100 pages, with high production values, the best imagery, insights from the world’s best surf scribes, there’s no doubt why Surfing Life has been at the forefront of surf media for over four decades. Surfing Life is BRIGHT in an intelligent and colourful way. Surfing Life is BRASH, poking fun, but at themselves as much as others. Surfing Life is BRAVE, to take on the tough topics. Surfing Life is the magazine with something for everyone. Surfing Life is Made From Surfing.

ISSUE 377: SUMMER

CONTRIBUTORS

THE LINEUP

SURFING LIFE

WITH ANDREW SHIELD • Our global ocean community brims with unexpected characters. Sometimes, they’re famous. Most times, they’re more knowledgeable than we are. Ofttimes, they glimpse into what’s coming: lines on surfing’s horizon. A forecast predicts a future event or trend; we yarn with Andrew Shield, legendary photog, as he peers into the distance.

2025 WRAP-UP • Pickles wins, and the old-new Tour begins

FRAMED

SUMBAWA SURF ODYSSEY • Lilliana Bowrey and Elliot Paerata Reid island-hop to a reef-sharpened, oceanic jewel

HOTTEST 100 • Surfing’s most-talented Aussie groms rip through 2025’s ranks

THE XX FACTOR OF LIDO VILLAGE • It takes a village to raise an Olympian

ENGINES OF SWELL • How cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons drive waves

TIME MACHINE EXTRACTION • 40 years, 40 manoeuvres—powered by nostalgia

THE TRAVEL TRIFECTA • From two to ten foot, this quiver’s got you covered

SUMMER BAREBACK AND REARING GALLOPING TO THE SHORE CALMED INTO SUBMISSION BY SAND, NOTHING MORE

SUMMER READING GREAT GIFT IDEAS • The Surfing Life online bookstore is chocked full of great surfing literature. With legendary stories from some of the greatest and most-loved icons of the industry, as well as some riveting fiction and stunning photo essays!