"My preparations have changed quite a bit lately. I used to focus only on competitions before. Now my head is asking me to look for more instead. Happiness is the key to success for me."

"We don't see ourselves as competing with the surf magazines. The audience who we're trying to talk to are the people who feel a strong connection to the ocean. Some of them obviously are going to be surfers, but more widely they could be people who fall under all sorts of groupings."

In 1985, Rusty Preisendorfer, an accomplished shaper at Canyon Surfboards with a visual arts major from UCSD, launched Rusty Surfboards and created what has become one of the most iconic logos in all of surfing.

"He described watching radar images in the moments before Super Typhoon Haiyan reached land, saying “it has got to weaken, it has got to weaken”. Tragically it didn’t."

Swellnet has Uncharted Waters prize packs to give away to our readers. There are ten packs and the winners will be the first people to answer this question:

I’m back in the water which is the best feeling ever. I’m obviously not going straight out and surfing 100%, I’m just easing into it. I’m just surfing every second day or so and having shorter surfs to prevent pushing it