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APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION – MATT ARCHBOLD
At just 16, Matt Archbold was tipped to be the successor to Curren’s throne, until his lust for adrenaline lead him down a path towards self-annihilation
By Brad Sterling
“I was ready, but I don’t think they were ready (for me).” Archy
THE ACCIDENTAL FREESURFER
Why Brenden ‘Margo’ Margieson’s timeless lines still resonate
By Pedro Ramos
“I’ve always tried110% when I surfed and I didn’t even care. I didn’t even know what I looked like. I just wanted to come off the bottom hard on a wave and come off the top hard.” Margo
THE INDO MOTORCYCLE DIARIES:CHAPTER V – POACHERSTO THE RESCUE
Prison tales and food shortages on the remote fringes of the archipelago.
Written & photographed by Tom de Souza
“With only half a litre of water and no food, the wrong decision right now could literally cost us our lives. I suggest he ride down to see if Jhony has any repair tools at his camp.”
JARVIS EARLE: JUMP STREET
A celebrated junior striving to make the leap to higher ground.
Written by Luke Kennedy • Photography by Pete Balmer
“When you’re at Jarvis’s level of surfing, when you leave school, you actually become your own CEO – instantly.” Luke Egan
A DIFFERENT PACE
Twin Fins, Farm Life and a Favourite Wave with Asher Pacey.
Interview by Luke Kennedy Photographed by Simon Williams
“That’s what I want, is to feel those feelings that I’m getting out of those boards, you know, if it’s working and it feels right, then I couldn’t be happier.”
DEAN WILMOT: BACK IN THE FRAME
Two decades since Dean’s last trip to the North Shore we are once again lucky enough to be living vicariously through his lens.
Photographed and captioned by Dean Wilmot
“Bettylou Sakura Johnson late entry at Backdoor. We had perfect light that morning and not a cloud in the sky. I swam out about 7:30. The morning light hits Off the Wall and Backdoor first at about five to eight. Then by around five or ten past eight the light hits Pipe. When a set comes through it looks sick because the light funnels straight down the valley. Bettylou was really charging Backdoor that morning and that wetsuit just made everything pop.”
THE NORTH SHORE. STILL A MAN’S WORLD?
Stepping into Oahu life reimagined through a fresh, slightly glazed, female perspective.
By Isis Flack
“Stepping into the North Shore is a time warp to simpler times, like entering a Steven Spielberg-inspired social experiment, where a whole town is thrust back into the 70s. And, I’m not going to lie, I felt myself kind of thriving within the rear-window town.”
CLASSIC FEATURE:HALF A WINTER’S TALE
Revisiting Phil Jarratt’s coverage of the volatile Hawaiian winter of 1976/77
Written by Phil Jarratt
“Barry Kaniaupuni, now in his thirties and thickening out, strolled around the contest area in a pair of daggy Levis and a pressed meat arm around his wife.”
DOWN THE LINE WITH BALINESE SURFING
Inspired by travelling westerners, a bold generation of Balinese locals faced their fears and took to the waves, thus making surfing one of the great cultural exchanges of the 20th century.
By John Ogden
“The 1976 documentary, Balinese Surfer, by Bill Leimbach provides a glimpse into the lives of several of the young Balinese as they strive to embrace certain outside influences whilst preserving their culture.”
FOUR POINT SURF CLUB 1976-79
Halcyon Days of South Oz Pioneers.
Written by Michael Wollenberg
“Bush bashing’ became all the go, flogging our tough old Holden’s and Fords through the mallee scrub along rough tracks, into new parts of the isolated coast.”
