SLIDE #15 Out Now

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SLIDE Magazine's new issue is now hitting surf shops, bookstores, newsstands, and more around the world, and this edition is overflowing with fresh features sourced from an international cadre of writers and photographers, both esteemed and green, and all points in between.

No less than 14 exclusive articles are showcased in SLIDE #15, including:

• Surf Slidin' Wahine - a roundtable interview with five of Hawaii's best professional female longboarders, colorized with photos from Jim Russi, Paul Teruya, and Anthony Walsh

• In Search of Crazy Horse Point - the treasure hunt for a mysto Central American pointbreak by Chris Del Moro, Neal Purchase, Jr. and Kieren Perrow, captured by hot-handed photog Todd Glaser

• Skip Frye's Fifteth - an exclusive interview with the inimitable Skip Frye

• Shadows of The Sleeping Lady - a look at the famed waves of Raglan and a few of the shapers that call the region home

• Harnessing the Here & Now - the first-ever gallery of moody surf photos from the talented eye of Ryan Tatar

• Ship to Shore - a timeline documenting the complete history of Grain Surfboards, written by Jon Coen and shot by Nick LaVecchia

• North Atlantic Gifts - a quick surf check in New York and New Jersey with Mikey DeTemple and presented by local shooter Tommy Colla

• Back to Basics - Cyrus Sutton's latest film endeavor, highlighting the alaia-inspired wood craze with Tom Wegener, Ryan Burch and crew

• Merging - the unique relationship of Dane Peterson and his Japanese borad-builder Takuya Toshikawa, photographed by Peto, himself

• Plus a powdery Pacific travel tale from Michael Kew and Art Brewer, Uncrowded Indo with Martin Daly and Brian Keaulana, a quick interview with Robert August, the South Island art of Patrick Bonner, and much more...

Surf Sliding Wahine While Hawai‘i is the birthplace of surfing, it is also home to some of the world's most radical breaks. For women, elegance on a wave has evolved into extremism-a keep-up-with-the-boys mentality that pervades everything from personal style to paychecks. Surfing royalty ranks on the ASP world tours, or regularly appears in surf videos and photo spreads. But in the beginning, surf royalty was quite literal. Many of Hawai‘i's revered queens and princesses were avid surfers; take a trip to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu and you will see royalty as well as everyday Hawaiian women and men playing in the ocean on long wooden boards, "surf sliding," as depicted by explorers' drawings from past centuries. Read more...