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Trent Mitchell, Billy Morris, Shane Peel, John Respondek, Daniel Russo, Corey Wilson, Trevor Moran, Art Brewer,
Chris Burkard, John Callahan, Tom Carey, Jason Childs, Mick Curley, Jeff Divine, Jeff Flindt, Pete Frieden, Hank,
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Craig Braithwaite, Chas Smith, Michael CiaramellaCONTRIBUTORS
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TWITTER @surfinglifeArtist Nathan Ledyard and
his piece ‘Lava Tube’ grace
our front cover this Issue.
It’s a wood carving painted
with acrylics. The sky colours
on sunset reflecting over the
water while a lone wave rears
up and strikes. Allow yourself
a few moments to soak in its
brilliance. We did!ARTWORK: NATHAN LEDYARDCraig Sims - 0433 410 476
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[email protected]SUBMISSIONSCRAIG BRATHWAITE
I’ve been surf writing since around the turn of
the century – he says, adjusting his monocle. I
left Surfing Life the first time around to head
to university and get smarter and do a design
degree. I thought designers were cool; which
they are, and they earn good money – well, at
least more than a seedy writer!
That old saying, you can lead a horse to water
but you can’t make it drink, applies abundantly
to me. I sucked harder than an Oxford Street
hooker at design. So, I turned back to journalism
and photography and got my degree.
I first picked up a surf magazine in high
school, and haven’t put them down since. That
feeling of flicking through the pages, smelling
the dried ink on the freshly pressed paper.
Holding it in my hands. Like catching a wave,
that’s a feeling I never want to end.
Poring over photos from all around the
world, and imagining myself there right at that
point in time, and what I would do. What lines I
would draw; how hard I’d be shitting myself, etc.
Then, talking to people about those sessions and
conveying their experiences and thoughts into
the written word, for all of you to read. It’s the
best job in the world.This issue really appealed to me to edit. Three
things immediately jumped out at me about
WAVES. We want to find them, we want to surf
them, and we want to survive them. This issue
encapsulates all of that.
Where do waves come from? Once we
understand that, we can start to predict their
arrival. And then we can surf them. This issue
is filled with a bunch of little tricks to get
you more waves. Where to sit on a point, or a
beachie peak, or a reef.
And, finally, how to survive them.
Sure, we show you how to survive bombies
and reefs with your life. But also, surviving a
hectic point session with your body and board
intact. Surviving the internet age of hype and
crowds. Surviving Pipe, and advice for someone
wanting to surf it for the first time. We also
survive literally getting our heads blown off in
Nigeria. Surviving Bull sharks and disease from
storm outfall when novelty waves fire up. Read about my glorious team over the next page,
and prepare to fire up the stoke. ... I asked them
all a simple, but loaded question, which is surely
all about getting them into trouble.GUEST EDITORThe Surfing Life Limo is the ruggedly handsome
RAV4, thanks to our mates at Toyota.ON THE COVER