Steve Pezman News Today

Our editorial staff's suggested reads published by The Surfer's Journal in 2023.

Turn and Go! is the documentation of five decades of wave riding, its icons, its landmarks, and its broader culture from the pen of Steve Pezman, TSJ’s first editor and cofounder, who didn’t just pay witness, but lived at surfing’s gravitational center.

Turn and Go! is the documentation of five decades of wave riding, its icons, its landmarks, and its broader culture from the pen of Steve Pezman, TSJ’s first editor and cofounder, who didn’t just pay witness, but lived at surfing’s gravitational center.

If you want to read the best surf books, start here.

By Kevin Cody Surfer’s Journal publisher Steve Pezman once compared the Hap Jacobs surf shop of the late ‘60s to the Notre Dame Cathedral because of the Jacobs’…

Jacobs shaped boards, surfers Dudley “Hap” Jacobs is acknowledged, along with fellow Hermosa Beach surfboard shapers Greg Noll, Dewey Weber, and Bing Copeland…

In 1969, Richard Nixon moved next door to Surfer mag founder John Severson. The San Clemente beach wasn’t big enough for the both of them.

[Editor’s note: The following stories are excerpted from Easy Reader stories about Beach People who passed away in 2021. For their complete stories…

LOS ANGELES -- The stout waves off the Kona coastline on Hawaii's Big Island were still the domain of stand-up surfers as Tom Morey fiddled in his garage with a 9-foot plank of polyethylene foam, an electric carving knife and an iron he'd borrowed from a neighbor.

A lifelong dreamer and tinkerer, Tom Morey created a stubby, lightweight bodyboard that changed beach culture forever. He was 86.