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Watch: “Not Today” Dane ponders what’s next.

Surf media impresario, garmento, husband, and dad, the multi-talented Dane Reynolds has gifted us with another episode of Chapter 11....

Watch: “Happy Talk” A film by Eithan Osborne and Andrew Schoener

You may have seen this by now as we kinda lagged (Sorry, Baja. More on that later), but regardless this...

Watch: “Pentacoastal” A film by Wade Goodall

Unless you are completely unattached to the Internet and all social feeds, you surely have seen all the pre-drop promotions...

Watch: Chapter 11 TV Surfing’s contradiction: Dane Reynolds

As most have seen by now, Dane just dropped two new clips produced by his ironically titled Chapter 11 project....

FORMER HITS BALI

From the looks of things, Dane, Craig and their new pick-up, Benny Howard, turned a trip to Bali into a...
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Austyn Gillette’s FORMER Part Is Top Shelf PLUS A DARKLY CANDID CHAT W/ DANE ABOUT LOVE, LOSS, + DYLAN

Austyn Gillette just added some serious weight to his already strong legacy with his new part for FORMER called ‘Radiant...
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Former’s “804 Yale” location is opening With music, beer, and rad exclusive pieces. This weekend in Los Angeles.

Last night I found myself Googling the shit out of things to do and places to go this weekend (swell...
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Watch “The Queen Awakens” Rincon with Dane Reynolds, Parker Coffin, the Guduaskas’, and more

The first real swell of the year is always a strange time. First people will say everything’s overhyped. Then the same...
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Watch Slow Dance B-Sides Sometimes you get blasted from the past: Craig, Dane, Ozzie and more filming for Slow Dance

Dustin Miller is a filmmaker who worked with Dane and Craig on Slow Dance, Craig’s profile film from a few...
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The 10 Best WY Vids of the Year Let’s get sentimental for a minute, then let’s get back out there

It seems to be common sentiment that 2017 was a bit trickier than we might have wanted it to be. But that’s...
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Neat: Morgan Maassen’s Hard Drive Seventeen minutes of Dane Reynolds, Stephanie Gilmore, Noa Deane and lots more

Morgan Maassen’s self proclaimed, “Unintentional surf film…sort of.” A compilation of unseen footage from years past starring Dane Reynolds, Lee Wilson,...
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We have Cluster Nostalgia Mitch Coleborn came over and fired us up for more of this

It’s no big secret that there’s still a scythe-toting grim reaper hovering over the formerly fun and care-free surfing industry. And...
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Dane Reynolds in “Premium Violence” It may as well be a public holiday when Dane Reynolds releases a part

Dane Reynolds continues to evolve and surprise as the rest of the surf world stagnates. Today he brought home twin...
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What exactly happens at a Pop Up Shop? Former changes the way we wanna shop

It is September and it is hot. 105 degrees to be exact. Warren Smith has been fidgeting with portable air...
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Afternoon Interview: Former Episode 057: Dane, Craig, Austyn, Jake and Warren talk about their second range release and Dane’s new “Premium Violence” part

We walked into Former’s Chinatown studio a little early. Dane was lodged behind a monitor editing his “Premium Violence” part...
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Conversation With: Thomas Campbell On his new surf film, creating in the modern climate and casting his dream lineup of surfers

I get buzzed up talking to Thomas Campbell. He has a mellow delivery but unpredictable answers. Like a frenetically elegant longboarder...
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One Roll: Sammy Boo Reynolds We put Dane’s son to work…again

Dane Reynolds didn’t grow up around a lot of kids. We learned this during filming of his Fairly Normal. But...
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Lizards of Summer Episode 021: Another month in the hot streets and sands of the world

We spent a lot of time in our own lizardy backyard this month, seeing how it’s summer and everyone seems...
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What Youth Issue 18 Release Affair Here’s like a million and one photos from our party with Former, Need Essentials and Vans at The Ace Hotel in Downtown LA

Friday night was a big one. For us, for you, for the Ace Hotel, for Former, For LA Witch, for...
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Fairly Normal: Dane Reynolds Episode 024: A norm core look into the world of Dane Reynolds and his family

Thanks to social media we often get blips and a few laughs from behind the scenes at Dane Reynolds’ house. His...
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Watch Issue 18 Move A cinematic perusal of the new pages we made

Want to know who’s in the new issue? Well, here they are. In beautiful celluloid pixels. Order your copy of...
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What Youth Issue 18 is here On Sale Now: “We don’t wanna work for scum anymore”

How about a little disruption to start the summer? Today we’re releasing our 18th issue, and on the cover you’ll...
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New issue is at the printer, now what? Well, hit the road. And have a party of course.

“Do you know how many times I clicked my fucking mouse to make this thing?” We’ll chalk this up to...
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Watch “Bobby Martinez & Friends” Surfing around SB with Dane Reynolds, Conner Coffin, and Parker Coffin

There still aren’t many guys with a backhand like Bobby. Even in the bumpiest conditions, he can still put it...
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What’s Dane Been Up to? We spent the weekend with the Reynolds family filming for a new Fairly Normal

Dane was home this weekend. A classic California pre-summer day: lots of blue, couple fun waves and lots of traffic....
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The Surfer/Hooper Index Craig Anderson is Steph Curry and other ridiculous comparisons to kick off the NBA playoffs

The NBA is probably the most commercialized athletic event in the world. This makes it the most unlike surfing (kinda)....
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The What Youth Top 34 This is who’s coming on the very unprofessional What Youth World Tour 2017

OK, so this is a few days late. Lots of rum-infused discussions around fire rings to sort the order. But...
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Watch Conner Coffin’s “Year One” A recap doco style thing about Conner’s first year on tour

The good news is: There’s some great surfing. The bad news, this kind of feels like you’d see this as...
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Former is here Dane Reynolds, Craig Anderson and Austyn Gillette’s new clothing line is live (and it looks good)

Yesterday I went on a rant. I do that. Wine at night and all. I said things felt alarmingly stale in...
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Dane Reynolds has been released After being harbored for two days in Portugal for a lost passport, he’s good

Because of the sensationalist potential of this story, it was kinda hard to tell how serious it was. We talked...
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Dane Reynolds and friends in “Rejects” The pilot light for 2017 just lit

Not going to lie: Not a whole lot of good videos have come out in 2017. SURFING Mag went under...
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Watch Chapter 11 Starring Dane Reynolds

In case you’ve been under a rock and haven’t seen this 4 times yet. Enjoy.

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