Surfing World Magazine June 2016

Welcome to Surfing World’s list of the 50 Most Intriguing People in Surfing Today. It’s a big call isn’t it? Choosing just 50 people out of the entire world of surfing and then sticking them into some sort of order of importance. I mean, consider how many amazing surf stories are going untold out there. How many surfers are doing remarkable things every single day? Through personal adventures, helping others, creative pursuits, environmental or political activism, good ol’ fashioned feats in the sea, and a million other means and ways to inspire our imaginations… Every single surfer has a story, so what makes one more intriguing than the other? It’s a fair question. When we did our first version of this list back in 2013, it generated a fair bit…

Mason Ho is a classic character and probably one of the most surf stoked people I’ve ever come across. You don’t have to look too far to figure out where that energy comes from. How many people do you know who have a Dad and an uncle who are both Pipe Masters? The Ho family is practically Hawaiian royalty, and Uncle Mike is an absolute frother. He still paddles out at huge Pipe and Sunset and is one of the most enjoyable people to spend time with be it out in the water, on the beach or around the comps, especially around the comps where he’s always hiding up in the bushes and whistling and waving and riding every wave with Mase and his little sister Coco, who’s also on…

50 PHUONG DUNG HOANG IMMIGRANT SONG French-born aerospace engineer Phuong Dung Hoang left everything she knew and made a life for herself on one of Australia’s loneliest surfing coasts, launching her slight frame at the heavy, grey-green walls of southwest Vic with serious commitment. She regularly competes in local comps and helped secure a state title with the Southwest Boardriders team last September. On land, she’s an eloquent thinker about life, love and language… and the search for a decent baguette. – Jock Serong Dad had been sent away from the war in Vietnam to France to study. Mum had been sent to Morocco. They met in France, and I grew up in Toulouse, their only child. It’s 300 kilometres from the ocean. I went there once when…

CHAPTER 1 Dear Mum, if you see Stacy, Roy, Jipsy-cat, Izzy (the Push), Joe Dobbs or T.M. tell them they all stuffed their lives not coming up here this weekend… SW camp is great. So great. Maybe the best thing ever. The best thing ever. Real folks up here, no seals, perfect tacos. The waves are a-mazing, clean glass kids of the new issue warping in all over back beach like sage junkies. Yesterday I saw the Dave R. Rasta-la-vista Rastafish coming off the bottoms of Mt. Olsmley in Oxham (ocean form) taking Tijuana (if you know what I mean) way across the bay in front of EVERYONE like whu pha whupha whu phah. D still has it. Not tennis. Not to mention the other 300 mermaids in the line-up…

A recipe to scoff on your next camping trip Surfing World was stoked that the good folks at Poler brought Rohan Anderson – the brains and belly behind Whole Larder Love – along to the SW Camp. Rohan doesn’t dig on processed food one bit and believes the key to healthy living is how and where you source your core ingredients. Further to that, just because you’re away from the home kitchen doesn’t mean you have to eat fish and chips, pizza and kebabs. Cooking over the flickering coals of a campfire, or even a gas stove in an adventure mobile is an experience in itself. Rohan put a on a demonstration of how to cook the following recipe in the cauldron that is the Poler Cast Iron Cook Pot.…

Getting changed in the car park in winter totally sux, unless you’re like our skeleton friend here and possess a Surfing World Trim Reaper Poncho! This hooded body blanket is the ideal pre and post surf car park change room. Not only will your bits stay warm and be protected from bitter winds and Peeping Toms, you’ll also be able to pretend you’re the personification of Death, swinging your scythe every which way as you collect the souls of those who drop in or snake up your inside. Every subscriber to SW this month receives an SW Trim Reeper Poncho and that’s $159.95 value for just $109.95 Subscribe now, get the best mag in the world* delivered to your post box 12 times a year and the limited edition SW…