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• 03.10.2022
• BY Tracks Magazine

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STEPH GILMORE :LET ME STAND NEXT TO YOUR FIRE

An enlightening chat with the world champion in the wake of her glorious triumph at Trestles.

INTERVIEW BY LUKE KENNEDY

JACK ROBINSON: RISE AGAIN

How the kid with a bowl-cut became a master of reinvention.

INTERVIEW BY LUKE KENNEDY & TIM SWALLOW

RIDE THE HORSE IN THE DIRECTION IT’S GOING

Gerry Lopez talks openly about his life and the machinations behind the making of his new film, ‘The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez’.

WRITTEN BY PETE GEALL

LOCATION: REDACTED

A unique assembly of surfing talent descends upon on of the most fickle waves in Africa.

WRITTEN & PHOTOGRAPHED BY AL MACKINNON

SID LIVES: THE NINTH LIFE OF THE LAST ORIGINAL

Sid Abbruzzi has been a surfing outlaw , rock star, shop owner, skater, 70-year-old shortboarder, and much more. An epic tale about a unique surfing life.

WRITTEN BY TONY ANDREWS

MACKENZIE BOWDEN: THE GYPSY KING

Kiwi-born, Ozi influenced and globally mobile . Surfing has a new court jester. It just so happens he knows how to jam a turn too.

WRITTEN BY BEN MONDY

KING ISLAND CAPRICE

A photographic homage to a southern wonderland where the waves tumble shoreward as perfectly shaped teepees and the hustle of modernity seems like a distant memory.

BY NICK GREEN

STACEY PERALTA ON RIDING THE WINDS OF CHANGE

Surfer, skating wunderkind, skate industry revolutionary and revered documentary maker. Stacy Peralta is the Renaissance man inspiration for the modern rebel. He directed the new Lopez doco and still can’t help but check out empty pools from plane windows..

INTERVIEW BY PETE GEALL

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ISSUE NO.587 OUT NOW

STEPH GILMORE :LET ME STAND NEXT TO YOUR FIRE

An enlightening chat with the world champion in the wake of her glorious triumph at Trestles.

INTERVIEW BY LUKE KENNEDY

JACK ROBINSON: RISE AGAIN

How the kid with a bowl-cut became a master of reinvention.

INTERVIEW BY LUKE KENNEDY & TIM SWALLOW

RIDE THE HORSE IN THE DIRECTION IT’S GOING

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LOCATION: REDACTED

A unique assembly of surfing talent descends upon on of the most fickle waves in Africa.

WRITTEN & PHOTOGRAPHED BY AL MACKINNON

SID LIVES: THE NINTH LIFE OF THE LAST ORIGINAL

Sid Abbruzzi has been a surfing outlaw , rock star, shop owner, skater, 70-year-old shortboarder, and much more. An epic tale about a unique surfing life.

WRITTEN BY TONY ANDREWS

MACKENZIE BOWDEN: THE GYPSY KING

Kiwi-born, Ozi influenced and globally mobile . Surfing has a new court jester. It just so happens he knows how to jam a turn too.

WRITTEN BY BEN MONDY

KING ISLAND CAPRICE

A photographic homage to a southern wonderland where the waves tumble shoreward as perfectly shaped teepees and the hustle of modernity seems like a distant memory.

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