There’s a damn good chance surf films are the reason you first picked up a board. From The Endless Summer to Beyond Blazing Boards; Modern Collective to Chapter 11; surf movies are, and always will be, our motivator to jump in the water, even when it's 1-foot and blown out. Surf films are everything. So we're diving in head-first with our own SURFER original releases. And if we're not in the editing bay, we'll be putting the best filmmakers on high pedestals, to give them the props and hype the deserve. Because without them, where would you be right now? Probably not getting to the beach, and that's where you should be. Always.
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Mikala and Daniel Jones have been North Shore standouts since, well, forever. They were raised on the beach at Rocky Point, groomed in the pit at Pipeline, and they came of age while traversing the...
Skudin is 31 years old and wears a scraggly reddish beard. He was always a skinny kid, but years of competitive swimming and surfing have covered him in lean muscle. When he was 15, he announced to...
There’s a damn good chance surf films are the reason you first picked up a board. From The Endless Summer to Beyond Blazing Boards; Modern Collective to Chapter 11; surf movies are, and always will...
ON THOSE CROWDED BLUEBIRD DAYS AT FIRST PEAK—a clean, pulsing north swell in the water, a gentle west wind kissing the wedging peak’s pencil-thin lips—you could hear a sound—pop pop pop pop—as sets...
Years ago at Pipeline, a crisp tradewind blowing Raph Bruhwiler sat shivering in the lineup, the coldest he’d ever felt in the water. It’s a strange way to imagine Canada’s first professional surfe...
Even among the 900 or so boards that line the rafters of the Surf Shed in San Diego, owner Bird Huffman has his favorites. His dearest fish of all – a 5’6″ Larry Mabile, with handsome glassed-on, d...
Talk about a shocker of a winter. One would think that all this weather activity should whip up some waves, but there's not been much of anything lately. The swell is so few and far between, in fac...
Matt Wilkinson’s transformation from party boy to world-title contender proves that competitive surfing today is more unpredictable than ever. By Ashtyn Douglas, Photos by Ted Grambeau
Mikala and Daniel Jones have been North Shore standouts since, well, forever. They were raised on the beach at Rocky Point, groomed in the pit at Pipeline, and they came of age while traversing the...
Even among the 900 or so boards that line the rafters of the Surf Shed in San Diego, owner Bird Huffman has his favorites. His dearest fish of all – a 5’6″ Larry Mabile, with handsome glassed-on, d...
Along the southern coast of Nicaragua, it’s the wind that beckons traveling surfers. Like clockwork, as Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua warm under the morning sun, an offshore breeze rises to a cre...
REDirect Surf is a filmmaking competition to see who can create the most unique and original surf short of the year. It's a celebration of surf filmmaking and a nod to the technology being used these days to document surfing like never before. Eleven filmmakers were given RED EPIC DRAGON camera packages worth $50K to use for the contest, and the winner gets to keep his. These films promise to be the cinematic highlight reels of the year. Read more at http://www.surfermag.com/redirect-surf/
A cinematic study of progression with Chippa Wilson, Dion Agius, and Nate Tyler. REDIRECT SURF: Eleven short surf films shot on state-of-the-art RED cameras.
"Watu" is the oldest story of a coast's first visitors, featuring Chad Jackson and Cliff Kapono REDIRECT SURF: Eleven short surf films shot on state-of-the-art RED cameras.
At home in the Golden State with Conner and Parker Coffin in "California Fever" REDIRECT SURF: Eleven short surf films shot on state-of-the-art RED cameras.
Dylan Graves attempts to save the youth of Puerto Rico from technology in "Los Zapatos". REDIRECT SURF: Eleven short surf films shot on state-of-the-art RED cameras.
A schooling in big-wave bravado with Nic Vaughan and Twiggy Baker in "[Un]foreseen". REDIRECT SURF: Eleven short surf films shot on state-of-the-art RED cameras.