ISSUE: NO. 594
World-beaters, wandering souls and fabled moments in surfing history all get top billing in this issue.
Issue 594 features includes: Laura Enever’s lust for life • Dark Lineage: Shane Herring, Nicky Wood & Chris Davidson • Cross Roads: Oscar Salt• Tom De Souza’s Indo Motorcyle Diaries• Bone Deep at Skeleton Bay• The New Wave of Indigenous Talent. See below for more on what’s inside Issue 594.
INSIDE THE ISSUE
LAURA ENEVER'S LUST FOR LIFE
The former world junior champ and CT star, transitions effortlessly from the commentary booth to 30-foot lineups. Find out how junior gymnastics and a competitive brother helped Laura Enever break big-wave records and bound through life in giant, fearless strides?
WRITTEN BY LUKE KENNEDY
DARK LINEAGE: CHAPTER III: NICKY WOOD, SHANE HERRING & CHRIS DAVIDSON
The final chapter of Monty Webber’s provocative series on the struggles faced by some of Australia’s most celebrated surfers. This issue Monty follows the journey of Shane Herring, the boy wonder saga of Nicky Wood and the tragic trajectory of Chris Davidson.
WRITTEN BY MONTY WEBBER
CROSS ROADS: OSCAR SALT
Gifted, east coast natural footer Oscar Salt was at the crossroads. After lapping the QS circuit a few times he was over heat sirens, contest singlets and heckled, 30-minute heats. Right when he was on the cusp of giving it all away, Julian Wilson threw him a bone and opened up the door to a Free Surfing reinvention.
WRITTEN BY KIRK OWERS
BONE DEEP AT SKELETON BAY
We’ve all watched on mesmerized as Skeleton Bay spins hypnotically across our screens, framed by the eerie backdrop of The Namib Desert (it’s in Namibia but it’s on the edge of the ‘Namib’ Desert). However, very few of us have ever bitten the bullet and chased the hollow fantasy to the west coast of Africa. Blake Thornton provides an honest account of the struggles and triumphs associated with a trip to the churning, leg-burning sand-bottom left.
WRITTEN BY BLAKE THORNTON
THE INDO MOTORCYCLE DIARIES CHAPTER II
Tom de Souza continues his overland, Indo odyssey to Sumbawa, where gold and other minerals are plundered by mining company giants and travelling surfers scrap over the island’s other natural resource – world-class waves. Tom provides telling insights into the experiences of the Indonesians who travel to work in the mines and the surfers who come to mine the lineups for barrels.
WRITTEN BY TOM DE SOUZA
