August Issue 2009 Surfing Magazine
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FOREWORD
By Travis Ferré
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” —Hunter S. Thompson
Now before we get too involved here, I will tell you I’m racing the sun in
an effort to have a shred before dark. It’s been a busy day…week…month here
at SURFING and I need to get in the water. I’m sure you understand.
During the past 30 days we’ve managed to appoint a new editor (that’s
me, Travis Ferré…we’ve met before, just not on this page), get 12 stitches
to the head, rekindle our love for summer, discover two new waves, watch our
corporate owner file chapter 11, and have our final, karaoke-filled farewell
to our (literally) fearless leader of the past eight years, Evan Slater. And
while this won’t exactly go down as the sentimental decade — it seems we’ve
all traded in tears for emoticons — I do want to thank Evan for everything
he taught me and the rest of the crew here at the magazine. His love for
surfing has been spilling out across lineups all over the world for a long
time and we’re honored to take the reins from him and continue the
tradition.
And what an interesting time it is to be taking over at a surf
magazine.
I believe it was Dr. Hunter S. Thompson who said, “When the going gets
weird, the weird turn pro.” And to say that these are weird times would be a
huge understatement. We’ve been taking this recessionary set on the head for
far too long now. Between the dire economy, mass layoffs, bankruptcies,
swine flu epidemics and Dane Reynolds’ inability to win a World Tour heat in
more than three months, you wouldn’t be too hard-pressed to find people
convinced we’re moments away from the apocalypse. A lot of them seem ready
to flip around to go sit on the sand until this closeout set passes.
Not us though. We’re still scratching out the back because we want to be
the first ones on the next set.
We thrive on enthusiasm. In fact, we’re so psyched for the future that
when we weren’t singing “Don’t Stop Believing” to Evan on his final day, we
were busy discovering two new waves, one you’ll see this month starting on
page 104. It’s the Caribbean’s ode to Kirra and it spent three days pumping
out cerulean cylinders just for Ben Bourgeois and Jesse Hines. The other,
which you’ll meet next month thanks to 12-year-old wave hunter Stephen Page
and his winning Google Earth entry, is a warm-blooded, Spanish-speaking
J-Bay somewhere south of San Diego. (Check page 160 for a sneak peek).
All in all, it’s been a fast-paced month here and we wouldn’t have it
any other way, because — to only slightly adjust Dr. Gonzo’s famous words —
“When the going gets weird, the weird go surf.”
And that’s exactly what I’m going to do right now. —Travis Ferré
THE BEST WAVES!
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