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Every sport and culture has its subdivisions. Cold water surf exploration is a niche within a niche and an extreme pursuit reserved only for the keen few. It’s a world away from the stock standard Indo boat trip. Bush planes, fishing boats, weather warnings, camping in the cold – these are all part of the process with no guarantee of success. Despite this, it’s this exact for...

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These days, ‘core lord’ is a label that’s handed out with remarkable ease. But before it became shorthand for a certain aesthetic or attitude online, there were surfers who earned that reputation simply by living it.

Generations of Core revisits those originals – the anti-establishment figures who existed throughout every era of surfing. Characters ...

The North Shore of Oahu. It’s surfing’s epicenter. If you surf or follow surfing, you’ve undoubtedly heard of the North Shore. Running from Haleiwa Beach Park to Sunset Beach, the Seven Mile Miracle, as it’s lovingly referred to, is a seven-mile stretch of coastline on Oahu’s North Shore that is home to some of the best waves in the world. During wintertime, the best surfers ...

Written by Al Mackinnon

Welcome to Tracks Back – a weekly deep dive into our endless store of archives. This week’s feature is from a strike mission to a remote part of Africa, which Kelly Slater and Jordy Smith also happened to be in town for. Check it out below.

A handful of us were converging from different parts of the...