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 376: SPRING

THE LINEUP

CONTRIBUTORS

SURFING LIFE

WITH DAVID PARNHAM • 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 David Parnham, co-owner and founder of Sun Zapper Sun Care, as he peers into the distance.

CUTTING THEIR LOSSES • The WSL retrofits the CT for season 2026

FRAMED

MASOKUT’S MOVING MOUNTAINS • Taking the precipitous drop with Willis and Ean Droomer

THE SURFING LIFE OF AELAN VAAST • Crystal-orb gazing with the current QS numéro un

THE SURFING LIFE OF COOPER DAVIES • “Be happy”: recouping the freesurfing benefits

DEFENDING THE LINE(UP) • From beach protests to legislative wins, the evolution of surf activism

40 ILL-KEPT SECRETS • Waves, an allegory for life’s crests and troughs

BREATHWORK INFLUENCE • A high-performance breathing journey with Matt Grainger

SURF IS ART. ART IS LIFE. LIFE IS SURF. • Blake Neka’s two-hour custom board art for every surfer

SPRING AS THE EBB AND FLOW OF THE TIDE RELIES ON THE MOON ALONE A SURFER’S ADVENTURE RELIES ON LEAVING ONE’S COMFORT ZONE

LOSE YOURSELF TIME TO ESCAPE • 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!