Yurra wanhtharra surfing gals, guys, gurus, groms and grandmasters, and welcome to the “summer” edition, bookending Surfing Life’s 40th anniversary year. Twenty-twenty-five cops a once-in-a-lifetime ...

Throughout history, the ocean has been a terrifying protagonist. Characterised by amplitude, wavelength, frequency and speed, a wave transfers energy through matter or space. The sea achieves both: we ...

Nhundu wanhtharra, fellow frother—welcome to another Aussie summer! No longer slinking in spring’s shadows, summertime vibes intensify as the darkest hours become the shortest and daylight stretches ...

Jingeri Jimbelung [Hello, my friends]. This Aboriginal greeting is from the Kombumerri people, one of the Yugambeh-speaking clans on the Gold Coast. A nation of many nations, Earth’s largest island ...

The ocean is the pulse of our planet. Coastal communities from continents all over the world connect to this blue-tinted energy. But beyond the surface, another force brews: culture. Its boundaries ...

Jingeri Jimbelung [Hello, my friends]. These welcoming words are in the Yugambeh language of the Kombumerri people, one of the many clans in the Gold Coast region. Thumb the pages of each quarterly ...

Jingeri Jimbelung [Hello, my friends]. This heartfelt greeting is in the Yugambeh language of the Kombumerri people, one of nine Original clans in the Gold Coast region.

We greet you in Yugambeh, the language of the Kombumerri people, one of the nine Original clans in the Gold Coast region, where SL mag was birthed (in the mid-eighties) and has been continuously ...

Does being a master of your universe involve mastering the art of surfing life? Would that look similar for a punter and a pro? The axiom “the ocean doesn’t discriminate” seems overused, a clichéd ...

Nhundu wanhtharra, surfing gals, guys, groms and grandmasters. Welcome to 2025, the year we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Surfing Life magazine! Like most underdog tales, our origin story reveals ...

We are all on the surfing learning curve: yes—you, me—Steph, Carissa, Mick, Italo, and even Kelly. When the term “learning curve” is thrown around, we usually think of kooks practising snap-tos on the ...

We greet you the way Kombumerri people—one of the nine Original clans in the Gold Coast region—have, and continue to do, since the Dreaming. Many moons after the first “Jingi wahlu”, this vast stretch ...