Go Unlimited with Magzter GOLD

Get unlimited access to 9,500+ magazines, newspapers and Premium stories for just

$149.99

$74.99/Year

Try GOLD - Free

Wisdom - Peter Schroff, 65

Surfer

Volume 60, Issue 4

Shaper, artist, philosopher San Pedro, California

- Justin Housman

Style evolves because human beings are competitive. If you see that your buddy looks a little bit better than you, you’re going to try to outdo them, to look better than they do. It’s just how it is.

Shapers used to be simple craftsmen who just wanted to run their own small businesses. Back in the day when shapers like Bing Copeland and Dewey Weber were on top, they weren’t trying to get huge. I think shapers like Horse Shit and Fire Liars are just trying to get rich quick.

Style means trust. It’s the kinda thing where you just have to trust yourself and dive off the cliff with it. Insecurity destroys style.

Style requires taking ownership of who you are. Look at somebody like Jack Nicholson. He’s taken ownership of who he is. Or, do you think Gerry Lopez ever tried to be David Nuuhiwa? Shit no!

This story is from the Volume 60, Issue 4 edition of Surfer.

Subscribe to Magzter GOLD to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,500+ magazines and newspapers.

Already a subscriber? Sign In

60 Years Ahead

We had a whole plan for this year. Funny, right? Surfer's 60 year anniversary volume was going to be filled with stories nodding to SURFER’s past, with cover concepts paying homage to the magazine’s most iconic imagery. Our new Page One depicts something that’s never happened in surfing before, let alone on a prior SURFER cover. And our table of contents was completely scrapped and replaced as we reacted to the fizzing, sparking, roiling world around us. In other words, 2020 happened to SURFER, just like it happened to you.