October 2010

Sneak Peek: In This Issue

• How To Do Everything:

  A century of valuable surf tips, how-tos, and secrets distilled into 16 info-packed pages

• Profile: Bede Durbidge

  Bede Durbidge has been a world-title threat since 2007, yet he’s remained the least –known member of surfing’s elite. Writer Sean Doherty makes sense of the Tour’s most underappreciated son.

• Crisis In The Gulf:

  We sent SURFER Senior Editor Kimball Taylor to the Gulf Coast to document the havoc the Deep Horizon spill reeked on surfing’s most fragile ecosystem.

• SURFER’s Guide To The Best Surf Colleges:

  After pouring over university pamphlets, surf reports, and statistics, while considering surf proximity and quality, academics, cost, and lifestyle—SURFER came up with America’s most surf-friendly four-year schools.

• Tudor & Knost In Noosa:

  SURFER Staff Photographer Todd Glaser traveled to Tropical Queensland with Joel Tudor and Alex Knost to spend a week at longboarding’s premiere event, The Noosa Festival.