#367 - Winter 2023

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Issue 367: Winter
Jingeri Jimbelung [Hello, my friends].This Aboriginal greeting is from the Kombumerri people, one of the Yugambehspeaking clans on the Gold Coast. A nation of many nations, Earth’s largest island and its surrounding oceans link to the oldest living
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With Vaughan “Deadly” Blakey
With the fight for everyone’s attention, will one form of media come out on top? I don’t think so. Media platforms are constantly evolving, and they’re changing faster than ever too. Print got stitched up by radio. Radio got stitched up by TV. TV go
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The Lineup
It’s not remote to those of you in Australia, but for me, coming from California, I would get lost on the North Island of New Zealand. I did a trip there once in an RV about ten years ago with a great crew and absolutely fell in love with the place.
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Contributors
EDITORIAL Josh AllenKate AllmanJohn AndrewsTim BakerMat BellWill BendixTessa BerkeleyRussell BierkeChris BinnsDaniel BrennanBrad BricknellMichael CiaramellaLiz ClarkNoah CohanHayden CoxRicky DannAndy DavisKeiran DeckRambo EstradaJaymie FaberSosefina
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EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Lystra Rose EDITOR-AT-LARGE: Chris Coté CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Phil Jarratt SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: Andrew Shield STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER/WRITER: Travis Johnson OPERATIONS PUBLISHER: Ray Bisschop ADMINISTRATION: Angela Thompson
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The End Of The Beginning For Big “O”
We farewell one of Australia’s biggest world title hopes as Owen Wright retires the “number 3” jersey. Yet, retirement simply describes Owen’s pivot from the ’CT to expanding his legacy for future groms. The “Big O”, as he’s affectionately known by f
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Less Crowds, More Chill
What is the allure for surfers to travel? Most surfers have their best session at their home break, mainly because they are there for the best swell and wind all year long and can react when it’s on. So why travel? Long before Bruce Brown’s Endless S
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Surfing’s Rising Nobility
For many, living a life revolving around surfing is a distant dream. But for Jarvis Earle, chasing waves around the world is his reality. It’s no wonder the eighteen-year-old goofy-footer from Cronulla has a grin so contagious it would send us into s
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Thrills And Turds
Groms: I predate the term. When I started surfing in the very early 1960s, they didn’t exist. Occasionally, you’d hear the term “gremmie” since, in those days, practically everything in our surf culture was borrowed from California, but I can’t reme
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Defining Her Destiny
A once-bustling hospital in 2011 lays dormant, cold and desolate, in the early hours of a rainy Melbourne night. Patient monitors stir, buzzing away like crickets, guardian angels keeping watch in the darkness. A weary brigade of nurses shuffle throu
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Photo Of The Year
Congratulations to Josh Tabone! Rising through the ranks, like a mid-season-cut pro on the Challenger Series, Tabone placed tenth in the POTY’s inaugural comp, fourth last year and is now feasting on chicken dinner. No need to fansplain why his maste
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Shift Happens!
Carbon is crazy stuff. One of the most common elements in the universe, the basis of all life on Earth, the foundation of organic chemistry, and part of one of the most common atmospheric gases—carbon dioxide, which imperils the planet via its role a
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The Twinnie Experience
Let’s get one thing straight; there’s no “right” or “wrong” way to surf a twinnie. The beautiful part of this particular surf craft is the freedom it allows the operator: mentally, physically, and spiritually. The great Mark Richards is credited with
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Next Set
Through peaks and pockets of our liveswe welcome their deepest traitforcing us to bemore intelligentmore courageousmore innate. In this modern wildernesswe, too, must be a waveeither stagnate and dissolveor use life’s stormy windsto grow and evolve.

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