Know Your Rights: Shaper Gallery, Ken White
Over the course of 20 years shaping surfboards, humble St. Augustine board builder Ken White's rubbed elbows with his share of legends. Aside from work…
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Dragon Factory’s Dev Model Honors Local Surfer/Trainer Devan Kennedy
In September of 2016, local surfer, fitness trainer and owner/operator of Jax rehab and performance training studio Endless Training, Devan Kennedy die…
GALLERY: Void Pro/Am Photo Bonanza!
What a weekend! We're still recovering from what was one of the mostest funnest surf contests of which any of us here at Void have ever been a part. Wi…
We Picked up a Drifter: Rob Machado is in town
For surfers of different generations, San Diego’s Rob Machado brings to mind different visions. Surfers of Gen X likely remember Machado as a standout …
How to Longboard: Just Stand There?
As both someone who appreciates surf craft of the heavy, nine-foot-plus variety and someone who has made a "living" as a surf journalist (debatable whe…
We Love Everything about this Video of J. Quinny and Friends
We are gushing over this new longboard clip featuring North Florida log-maestro Justin Quintal and friends. And what's not to love? Pristine and gre…
A Beschen Session: Pipeline charger, Mauli Ola crew at SURFER tonight!
North Shore-based pro surfer Gavin Beschen doesn't remember if he's been to Northeast Florida before. Which is surprising, given that judging by the wa…
WATCH: We can finally stand to look at this edit
Do you find it intolerable to watch videos of people surfing when there are no waves and you yourself have been unable to shred? Samesies. Which is why…
Kenny Richards, Ginger Beer, and the Root of Curiosity
Kenny Richards is a searcher. That interrogative spirit has led the Atlantic Beach native and Episcopal School graduate down a rabbit hole (or ten). Th…
Know Your Rights: Step into Liquid with Brewmaster Eric Luman
"Know Your Rights" is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with local surfers whose love for the ocean fuels his or her passio…
Old City Style: 2018 Log Jam Recap
How great is surfing in Northeast Florida in the summer? I mean besides the crowds, lack of beach-adjacent parking, tourists, lack of quality surf... d…
VOID SURFBOARDS: Mike Whisnant on Void’s New Crop of Shred Sleds
If you’re an East Coast surfer, especially a Northeast Florida-based one, the name Whisnant likely rolls off the tongue as easily as the word “nor’east…
FINANCIAL ADVICE: From the Green Room to a One, Two, or Three Bedroom
Those old enough to remember the pre-recession economy, circa 2007, will certainly recall how utterly bananas the housing market was in Northeast Flori…
Zander Morton’s Dream Job Vanished, so he Embarked on a New Odyssey
“Magazines, Christ, they’ll kill you,” former Surfing Magazine Nick Carroll lamented in his heartfelt eulogy to the shuttered magazine. In the piece, p…
Tonight: Meet Very Funny, Very Good Surf Journalist Chas Smith at SURFER the Bar
Author, and now documentarian, Chas Smith has earned infamy in the world of surf journalism, spinning mostly first-person documentations of surfdom acr…
Go: Florida Surf Film Festival at Surfer the Bar
Though Florida’s vibrant surf communities are collectively known more for the ridiculous number of surf stars the state’s produced—Frieda Zamba, Lisa A…
Get Psyched with Volcom Stoneys
Surfer-shaper-artist-screenprinter, Wayne Satterwhite, Jr. is the Northeast Florida surf community’s resident renaissance man. Aside from being one of …
Behind the Centerfold: The Outdoor Issue
Northeast Florida is a place of unimpeachable beauty, often inspiring us to be our best selves. It’s also fully capable of stopping us in our tracks. H…
LINER NOTES: Here’s what’s inside our 2018 Outdoor Issue
Growing up listening to my late-father’s tales of psychedelic surf exploits during the mid-70s post-shortboard revolution, California, especially South…
Watch: Justin Quintal in “All Day, All Night, All Right (Coast)”
North Florida surfer Justin Quintal suffers from a rare and incurable condition. Unlike more common, more treatable abnormalities, such as F.O.M.O., Qu…
Spanish Roots: Local surfers exhibit classic approaches at the Duct Tape Invitational in Spain
After 14 events over the course of nearly a decade, Joel Tudor’s traveling circus—better known as The Vans Duct Tape Invitational—has grown to include …
Legend Alert: Watch this cool video honoring three influential Florida surfers
A couple of weeks ago during a run of freak late April swell, as lines of long period swell ran across the then-well-packed sandbars, creating shoulder…
Know Your Rights: Wood Surfboard Shaper and Surf shop owner, Drew McCormick
“Know Your Rights” is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with East Coast surfers whose love for the ocean fuels their passio…
Interview: Photographer Julien Roubinet Stopped by to talk New York-New Jersey surfing and “Ice Cream Headaches”
“If they get lucky, some people start out discovering something that makes them feel better than they ever felt before. If the feeling is strong, they …
Interview: Karina Petroni on island life, sensory overload, and falling in love with surfing all over again
Standing on the boardwalk at 6th Ave. North in Jacksonville Beach, former internationally ranked competitive surf-star Karina Petroni is suddenly overw…