Surf Mags - Who's killing it, who's not??

[willhs84]

Just wanna know what mags everyone reads? Why?

[Grooter]

Surfing World subscriber

The only surf mag you need. Great photos and great stories without all the juveline adolescent garbage in the other ones.

[TMC]

I buy all surfing mags (with the exception of ASL - its cr@p and apparently all their writers are all midgets*).

Due to my incredibly large disposable income I can afford to spend hundreds on subscriptions to magazines which give me less information that what I would get right here.

Since the advent of the internet surfing magazines have become an anachronism. On here I can get a quality discussion about all things surfing, often with opinions that 'surfing identities' would not publish in a magazine. I also get tonnes of good quality photos of waves that aren't chopes, shippies and ours, from photographers I have actually met and like. Finally although the ads on here can be annoying and I shudder everytime I see a 7s superfish fish, they are far less pervasive than those in mags, and I don't have to pay to be annoyed by them.

On the downside I don't get any poor fitting shirts from realsurf, but I'm sure if I tried hard enough I could get a shirt from someone, probabaly priddy

[pridmore]

what size TMC ??? lol..

I used to really love the good old Tracks ( newspaper style ) and would look forward to the next edition and be checking newsagents to see if it was out yet...think it was great but was that just my grommett obsession with everything surfing ???

[LONGINUS]

Ive got a t-shirt with your name on it TMC, took ages to find someone that made 'aussie bloke larges' as well, if you get a sec to PM me with size and shipping its outbound to you.

I too subscribe to the big three aussie mags, ASL, Tracks and SW and still think each has something to offer. All three know they need to translate to online and are doing so, its a big task though, main challenge is that everyone is used to the internet being equal to free. Upside is that the surf mags have solid financial backing and are still going to be able to drive the development of professional online tools pertinent to surfers - tools that actually work.

Based on the quality of whats available in surf mags today, would you actually buy a black and white surf mag printed on broadsheet newspaper?

[pridmore]

I would but I am not normal. I like things with carachter and nostalgia, drive a 64 EH, love old surfboards and surf history, and still watch Morning of the Earth and Kongs Island....I am sure most like the glossy paper full of ads...but in saying that the mags are ok, still like to see the amazing pics and read the stories...just liked the old Tracks better, good memories as a grommy...

[LONGINUS]

I would but I am not normal.

weirdo

Broadsheet newspaper tracks was great for lighting fires on the beach and for making man traps - dig a big hole and place a paper sheet over it, save miss tracks page for later in the sand dunes...sprinkle lightly with sand, hide and giggle like a maniac when someone falls into hole and dislocates ankle..rinse and repeat...was it just me that used to do that?

[TMC]

drive a 64 EH

You carnt!!!! you're driving my dream!!!!

I was looking into getting a new car and was thinking about a 64 EH special but all and sundry advised against it. All I wanted was a car with character and history rather than some ricer tin can.

[mustkillmulloway]

if it's not on free and on the net

than it's bad for the environment

a harp seal died for every mag u read

not say a perfectly good six pack stayed unsolded so u could read wats for free on the net

[purple pyramids]

ok, so that's why kneeboarding was more popular in the 70s -- all those 'man traps' causing sprained ankles. bring back the broadsheet i say.

Broadsheet newspaper tracks was great for lighting fires on the beach and for making man traps - dig a big hole and place a paper sheet over it, save miss tracks page for later in the sand dunes...sprinkle lightly with sand, hide and giggle like a maniac when someone falls into hole and dislocates ankle..rinse and repeat...was it just me that used to do that?

[Nick Carroll]

I think Stab is KILLING IT.

Big fan of their "god we're fcuked but everyone else is even more fcuked" approach. Really seems to fit the times.

I think we should all rush out and get a free copy of their offshoot paper mag in General Pants.

[Clif]

heheh this is fun. NC is like a big bad crocodile trawling the estuary.

[DV8]

Surfing World the only one I bother with any more . Others have the add quota higher than the content quota ..........but seems to get the ED's and hangers on spots on the commentary panel at WCT EVENTS so they can vomit large amounts of useless dribble and screw the whole LIVE feed experience.

Water Magazine is usually good read also .............read it online through surfline .

[puurri]

heheh this is fun. NC is like a big bad crocodile trawling the estuary.

It's his oeuvre.

[Grooter]

drive a 64 EH

You carnt!!!! you're driving my dream!!!!

I was looking into getting a new car and was thinking about a 64 EH special but all and sundry advised against it. All I wanted was a car with character and history rather than some ricer tin can.

Don't get the EH, too small and too old.

Get a HZ, last of the great Holdens from the 1970's.

Had one just like this below with the Monaro rims (plus skull door knobs and a claxon horn ) . I miss her so much but I just don't have the time these days to give it the care it needs to stay running

[willhs84]

Surfing World the only one I bother with any more . Others have the add quota higher than the content quota ..........but seems to get the ED's and hangers on spots on the commentary panel at WCT EVENTS so they can vomit large amounts of useless dribble and screw the whole LIVE feed experience.

Water Magazine is usually good read also .............read it online through surfline .

Are you kidding me... Surfing World's ED does more WCT commentating than anyone else in the Aussie magazine world...

[LONGINUS]

as soon as mags like Track and ASL can start publishing articles with a writing style other than something that comes across as being targeted to some bong-addled deadshit forklift driver living at tugun or bilinga stuck in the early 90's then i might think about parting with my money for them...

I wonder if it's a paradox like in Terminator II. Becasue if all of Miles Dyson's work at cyberdine systems who developed the Terminator was based upon the chip that was sent back to 1985 from the future then who actually invented the technology in the first place?

So grommets only speak as though they were sired and educated in a brothel because of the level of grammar that surfing magazines expose them too. So grommets only say 'froffing' because they read it in a magazine and magazines use words like 'froffing' because they think that thats how grommets speak.

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[sandfly]

Tracks with the odd Sufers Path and Surfing World thrown in for me.

Also think back with lots of nostalgia to the old Tracks with Capatain Goodvibes, them were the days!