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The "Surfing Yearbook" offers the complete package of surfing news, features, results, opinions, and photography, providing an insider's view of everything that matters in each of the world's surfing regions - Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and Japan, South and Central America, United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

New Zealand is one of the last few remaining surf destinations able to offer large, uncrowded water to surfers. The scenery is also spectacular and the unique shape of the land presents many options to those wishing to take advantage of all it has to offer - one of which is that the drive from coast to coast rarely takes more than 3 hours. This guide contains 470 detailed break maps, 80 classic kiwi line-up shots, 60 area synoptic charts, detailed weather information and break information by locals. Small format.

Surfing is an obsession, and many a surfer has thrown away life-as-he-once-knew-it for a single wave. In The Pilgrimage some of the world's top surf writers pay tribute to 50 of the world's best waves – the breaks which have become so much part of surfing folklore that they've developed a life force of their own. This book is sure to become a classic. The text creates a great sense of place, and there's practical information on getting to (nearly) every break, the best time to go, what to take, where to stay, and what ... read more

Simply put, New Zealand is a great place to be a surfer. In Searching for Groundswell, Paul Hersey takes the ultimate surfing road trip, looking to connect with the best beach breaks, points and reefs along the 15,000 kilometres of coastline that surround New Zealand. He journeys to Dunedin, the Catlins, Christchurch, Kaikoura, the West Coast, Wellington, Taranaki, Raglan, Tauranga, East Cape, Gisborne and Auckland before returning to his surfing roots in Northland. Paul discovers that the sleepy surf communities of his youth are n... read more

All surfers dream of shedding responsibilities and answering the siren song of the ocean swells. For most, it is an ideal that recedes as age advances - as family, career and provider commitments overwhelm the wanderlust of youth. But what if you could defy the slow march of age? Shelve all your worldly pressures, pack up the family and a few trusty surfboards and hit the open road for the Great Australian surfing road trip? Tim Baker is doing just that. Inspired by the dreams of his youth, and in the face of looming middle-age, Ba... read more

Offers information needed to create a personal fitness program that builds strength and increases endurance, fine-tunes balance and coordination, and minimizes the risk of injury. This guide helps readers to improve their wave count, maintain a higher energy level, and master maneuvers that they thought were beyond their skills.

Dop 2008 Australia 234 x 156 x 24 mm pp 320 softcover In A Wave Away, surfer and author Matt Griggs escapes to some of the planet's most intriguing surfing locations. From far-off places such Israel, Chile and Spain, to the more commonly known beach breaks in Hawaii, New Zealand, Australlia and South Africa, he and his friends from the surfing world explore the landscape as well as the swell.

THE MOMENT: A surfer's life is spent chasing them. That magic second when all the elements align. It could be inside a crystal blue barrel wrapping around a palm-fringed Indonesian island. It could be perched in the lip of a 15-foot Pipeline widowmaker. It could be as your feet touch the sand for the first time as the new world surfing champion. It could be when you are the first person to come across a mind-numbing human tragedy. It could be, simply, staring out over an empty pointbreak at dawn and realising you're the only human ... read more

From Hawaii to Tahiti, South Africa to the Mentawai Islands, from Australia to Morocco, France, and beyond, this work takes the reader on a journey to discover the beautiful waves on all the oceans of the world. The accompanying documentary information describes the natural mechanism behind the formation of waves.

Written by the hottest property in surfing, this book will teach you absolutely everything you need to know, from buying your first board and waxing it to your first real turns to crazy air tricks like alley oops and flips. If you surf, if you want to improve, this book will cut years from your learning curve.

INCLUDES 90 MIN DVD A book that defines the importance of surfing to the Australian psyche with a far-ranging look at the surfers, the boards, the beaches and the surfwear that have shaped the sport for generations. After its 'discovery' in the pacific the Australians and Americans adopted surfing as a sport of choice, their long ocean-facing coastlines providing ample opportunity for experimentation and development. Only a Surfer knows the Feeling captures the essence of the sport and how Australians and Australian companies s... read more

This book covers the full gamut of surfing topics, including the history, professionalism, surfboard evolution, professional surfers, the Hawaiian Islands, kneeboards, wave skills, windsurfers, and the future of surfing. It also includes lots and lots of rare color photos covering surfing's exciting past and present.

Extreme Surf is a fascinating and indispensable journey through a collection of awe-inspiring big-wave locations, from Teahupoo, Tahiti to Mavericks, North California and is a visual compendium to one of the world

Developed by Hawaiian islanders, surfing began to peak on the mainland in the 1950s, taking America - and the world - by storm. This collection showcases a selection of surf photographs - from the bliss of catching the perfect wave at San Onofre to dramatic wipeouts at Oahu's famed North Shore.