February 2009

Sneak Peek: In This Issue

• THE YETI

  Meet North America’s newest monster slab. Greg Long, Mike Parsons, Garrett Mcnamara and crew head to cold, turbulent waters and photographer Jason Murray documents the madness. Things will never be the same.

• THE EDGE OF REASON

  On a boat in remote Indonesia, Jordy Smith, Dusty Payne, and Eric Geiselman pushed progressive surfing to mind-shattering heights. This is the sequential evidence of their experiments.

• SURF TIP

  Hot yoga wtih Timmy Reyes and Jordy Smith. Yoga and surfing share a common bond—both are considered a spiritual pursuit, but without spiritualism being necessary. Both require balance, strength, and poise, but in the case of Bikram Yoga (or “Hot Yoga”), there is one significant difference: temperature.

• The SURFER Profile: Christian Beamish

  On the eve of the type of surf voyage few of us will ever attempt – a solo journey the length of Baja in a homemade boat – Joel Patterson explores a surf life uniquely lived.

• EXPOSURE

  Twelve pages of uninterrupted surf imagery