YES
#20-‘13
the doubters have doubted and the naysayers nayed but Lines has continued past the point of no return and that is right where we want to be in our fifth year. Publish or perish, sink or swim, well we’d rather surf if that’s OK, and that is exactly what Lines is all about. Lines has grown through 20 issues and hundreds of thousands of view from around the world and still rising steadily while surfing when the waves are good, because we get our feature stories straight from the source. And what makes that so significant? It’s about a love for surfing Indonesia, something that started as a hobby that became a passion and then a lifestyle, and now in its latest avatar as the publication you are reading. I’m not talking about myself; I’m talking about all the surfers who appear in Lines and even way more behind the scenes that don’t, because they are all representative of what surfing here is about: pure stoke enjoying waves in the ultimate surf-drenched island nation in the world: Indonesia. The pictures in Lines show this and you don’t have to speak a language to know that the surfers in these pages are having the time of their lives riding Indonesian waves. Just like the kid in the photo to the left, surfing his backyard somewhere remote, naked on a wooden plank. If that is not pure stoke surfing Indonesia, then I don’t know what is. Welcome to Lines 2013. -- Lorca