Stab Magazine

I love the smell of chlorine, the shriek of a jetski and the whine of the muezzin in the morning. I demand that my surftrips be held in theme parks, that I stay at a novelty hotel where the only entrance is through a giant lion’s jaw, where tiger cubs can be petted in between sessions and their full-grown cousins jabbed with your surfboard through the bars of their pen and where muslim women in full-length black lycra and hijabs watch the action from inflatable tubes. Hence Stab’s return to the Islamic Republic of Malaysia and the predictable folds of the Sunway Lagoon wavepool. ...MORE

Blackbox Down

The most fucked-up country in the world isn’t Iraq, believe it or not. It’s a dirty little sliver of sand and rock on the west coast of Africa called Somalia. Charlie Smith and his Blackbox boys went surfing there.