A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Bertlemann, Larry

(check, pretty sure name is now just "Surfing Life")

Loud, impudent, well-crafted glossy surf magazine, founded in 1985 by New Zealander Peter Morrison, published monthly out of Burleigh Heads, Queensland. For its first five years, under the editorial reign of California- born Mike Perry, 

) was colorful but predictable; it didn't really find its footing until 1991, when it lured editor Tim Baker away from rival surf magazine 

, hired cheeky Derek Rielly as associate editor, and began publishing columns and articles by international surf press veteran Nick Carroll. Art director Graeme Murdoch, responding to the new editorial team, gave 

's photography was first-rate thanks primarily to homegrown talent Ted Grambeau, Sean Davey, Bill Alexander, and Peter Wilson. While feature articles were at times distinctive (a mix of profiles, interviews, travel pieces, board design articles, contest coverage), the magazine's character was for the most part developed in columns: "Backwash" contained the surf world's best gossip; the purple-caped "ASL Man" (created by surfer/artist Paul Collins) was the sharpest and best-drawn cartoon; "What's Hot/What's Not," like many of the magazine's columns, was built on reader input. In "The ASL Bravery Test" (sometimes titled "The ASL Dare"), magazine staffers in bright orange jumpsuits would turn up unannounced at the home of a famous surfer and offer a $50 or $100 check if the surfer would agree to perform an embarrassing or semidangerous task: big-wave rider Ken Bradshaw took the dare and had his chest and back waxed; pro surfer Dave MacAulay, a devout born-again Christian, refused the dare by not setting foot inside a notorious Honolulu strip bar.

's best moments came in the second half of the '90s, after Rielly was promoted to editor. While freely indulging his schoolboy obsession with breasts and bowel movements, and too often playing the surf-nationalism card, Rielly also wrote eloquently and pointedly on a range of surf world topics, including the shortcomings of the international pro tour and the monopolizing of some exotic first-rate surf breaks by expensive surf resorts. "The whole notion," Rielly wrote in 1996, "that waves can be bought and turned into enclaves for those able to afford a weighty daily tariff, is reminiscent of a money-bloated, right-wing country club." While the magazine is still plush and well-produced, it lost focus with Rielly's departure in 1999.

 is distributed worldwide, and in 2012 its monthly circulation was approximately 30,000, with 50,000 unique monthly readers of the web content. 

Australia's Surfing Life

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