The contact sheet · FIG. 01–102

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01: The archive

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Lessons on the Water

45 FIGURES

Adult surf class celebrating with arms and shakas raised behind a row of colorful soft-top surfboards at the shoreline — FIG. 03:FULL CLASS, ARMS UP · WATERLINE, DAYTONA BEACH

Three paddleboarders on flat turquoise water, fisheye view — FIG. 25:THREE BOARDS, FLAT WATER · SUP SESSION

Two students practicing SUP yoga on calm turquoise water — FIG. 26:SUP YOGA ON GLASS

Student celebrating a ride with arms raised, seen from behind — FIG. 27:ARMS UP AFTER THE RIDE

Lesson group running pop-up drills on colorful soft-top boards — FIG. 28:POP-UP DRILLS ON THE SAND

Paddle drill line on the sand on a sunny lesson morning — FIG. 29:PADDLE DRILL LINE, LESSON MORNING

Class practicing their surf stance on boards in the sand — FIG. 30:STANCE PRACTICE ON THE BEACH

Instructors carrying soft-top boards into the surf — FIG. 31:BOARDS GOING IN · INSTRUCTORS

Young surfer riding whitewater toward the beach, seen from behind — FIG. 32:FIRST WAVE, WHITEWATER · TOWARD THE BEACH

Students practicing prone paddling on boards on the beach — FIG. 33:PRONE PADDLING DRILLS

Wide view of a lesson group stretching on the beach — FIG. 34:GROUP STRETCH, WIDE VIEW

Two instructors and a student together after a lesson — FIG. 35:AFTER THE LESSON · TWO INSTRUCTORS, ONE STUDENT

Daytona Beach arch at golden sunset — FIG. 36:THE ARCH AT GOLDEN HOUR · DAYTONA BEACH

Beach umbrella and chairs on a glassy sunrise morning — FIG. 37:GLASSY SUNRISE, ONE UMBRELLA

A student lying on a longboard in shallow water, throwing a shaka — FIG. 51:SHAKA FROM THE SHALLOWS

Two people seen from behind standing in shallow water holding surfboards — FIG. 54:AT THE WATERLINE, BOARDS IN HAND

An adult surfer riding a soft-top board across a small wave — FIG. 56:UP AND RIDING ON A SOFT-TOP

A group of adults after a lesson, most in wetsuits, standing under the Vast Oceans banner — FIG. 57:ADULT GROUP AFTER THE SESSION

A student standing on a board in the whitewater with both arms raised — FIG. 58:ARMS UP IN THE WHITEWATER

An instructor in a Vast Oceans shirt crouched over a board on the sand, seen from behind — FIG. 59:INSTRUCTOR AT THE BOARD, ON THE SAND

A lesson group with their boards at the waterline, hotels along the beach behind — FIG. 61:THE CLASS AT THE WATERLINE

A lesson group holding boards upright at the shoreline, seen from a distance — FIG. 62:BOARDS UP, WAITING ON THE SET

A large summer camp group gathered on the boardwalk with the beach behind — FIG. 65:SUMMER CAMP GROUP ON THE BOARDWALK

Students carrying soft-top boards on their heads along the beach — FIG. 66:CARRYING BOARDS ALONG THE SAND

A large camp group in matching shirts with their arms raised — FIG. 67:CAMP GROUP, ARMS UP

A line of students practising the pop-up on boards laid out on the sand — FIG. 68:POP-UP DRILL ON THE SAND

Students standing with their boards beside the lesson tent — FIG. 69:THE CLASS AND THEIR BOARDS

Students doing handstands against a wall with their boards laid out below — FIG. 70:HANDSTANDS ON THE BOARDS

Two people sitting under a beach umbrella with surfboards propped beside them — FIG. 71:UNDER THE UMBRELLA, BOARDS ALONGSIDE

Two students in school shirts and an instructor standing between upright boards — FIG. 72:STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTOR, BOARDS UP

Students standing in a line on the sand with soft-top boards balanced on their heads — FIG. 73:BOARDS OVERHEAD

A class standing in front of a row of upright surfboards on the sand — FIG. 74:THE CLASS AND THE BOARD LINE

A group holding a striped longboard up together on the beach — FIG. 75:HOLDING THE LONGBOARD UP

Two students standing between two upright boards on the sand — FIG. 76:TWO STUDENTS, BOARDS UP

Five students standing in front of a row of upright soft-top boards on the beach — FIG. 92:FIVE STUDENTS AND THEIR BOARDS

A student standing on a paddle board in shallow water with the paddle in hand, others behind — FIG. 93:UP ON THE PADDLE BOARD

A student in shallow water with a hand on her board, holding the leash — FIG. 94:SORTING THE LEASH IN THE SHALLOWS

Three students standing together in front of upright surfboards on the sand — FIG. 95:THREE STUDENTS, BOARDS BEHIND

Three students in rash guards with their arms around each other, boards behind — FIG. 96:ARMS AROUND, AFTER THE LESSON

An instructor kneeling beside a young student on the sand between two soft-top boards — FIG. 97:ON THE SAND WITH THE INSTRUCTOR

A young student standing on a soft-top board riding whitewater toward the beach — FIG. 98:RIDING THE WHITEWATER IN

A young student riding a small wave on a soft-top board with both arms out for balance — FIG. 99:UP AND RIDING, ARMS OUT

A young student riding a yellow board through the whitewater with one arm raised — FIG. 100:ARM UP ON THE YELLOW BOARD

A young student riding a board prone through the whitewater — FIG. 101:STRAIGHT THROUGH THE FOAM

A young student standing on a board in shallow water with an instructor watching from behind — FIG. 102:FIRST WAVE, INSTRUCTOR BEHIND

Surfing with A Pro, Ryan Ragan

37 FIGURES

Ryan Ragan crouched deep inside a large turquoise barreling wave — FIG. 04:THE COACH, DEEP IN A TURQUOISE BARREL

Ryan Ragan barreled on a green wave, shot from the water with cliffs behind — FIG. 05:BARRELED, SHOT FROM THE WATER

Ryan Ragan silhouetted inside a glowing turquoise barrel — FIG. 06:SILHOUETTE, INSIDE THE BARREL

Ryan Ragan laying into a snap on a tiger-print shortboard — FIG. 07:LAYING INTO A SNAP

Ryan Ragan tail-sliding through a layback turn — FIG. 08:TAIL-SLIDE THROUGH THE LAYBACK

Ryan Ragan boosting a frontside grab air — FIG. 09:FRONTSIDE GRAB AIR

Ryan Ragan throwing a huge fan of spray off the top of a wave — FIG. 10:FAN OF SPRAY OFF THE TOP

Ryan Ragan punting fins-free over the whitewater — FIG. 11:FINS-FREE OVER THE WHITEWATER

Ryan Ragan hacking a frontside turn with spray flying — FIG. 12:FRONTSIDE HACK, SPRAY FLYING

Close-up of Ryan Ragan mid-cutback with fanning spray — FIG. 13:MID-CUTBACK, CLOSE RANGE

Ryan Ragan blasting a fins-out snap on a yellow board — FIG. 14:FINS-OUT SNAP, YELLOW BOARD

Ryan Ragan setting his rail on a glassy overhead emerald wave face — FIG. 15:RAIL SET, GLASSY OVERHEAD WALL

Ryan Ragan throwing the tail through the lip of a wave — FIG. 16:TAIL THROWN THROUGH THE LIP

Ryan Ragan carving off the top of a wave with spray trailing — FIG. 17:CARVE OFF THE TOP, SPRAY TRAILING

Ryan Ragan snapping off the lip on clean water — FIG. 18:SNAP OFF THE LIP, CLEAN WATER

Ryan Ragan turning hard under the lip while surfers paddle behind — FIG. 19:HARD TURN UNDER THE LIP

Ryan Ragan in a contest jersey snapping on a turquoise wave — FIG. 20:CONTEST JERSEY, TURQUOISE WALL

Ryan Ragan snapping under a big peak in a contest jersey — FIG. 21:SNAP UNDER A BIG PEAK

Ryan Ragan pulling into a glassy green barrel in a wetsuit — FIG. 22:GLASSY GREEN BARREL, WETSUIT

Ryan Ragan taking a late drop on an overhead peak — FIG. 23:LATE DROP, OVERHEAD PEAK

Ryan Ragan carving a large wave, photographed from above — FIG. 24:CARVE, SHOT FROM ABOVE

Ryan Ragan in a cap and sunglasses in the shade under a pier — FIG. 63:UNDER THE PIER

Ryan Ragan riding deep inside a large green barrel with cliffs behind — FIG. 77:INSIDE A GREEN BARREL, CLIFFS BEHIND

Ryan Ragan set deep in a hollow green barrel with a headland behind — FIG. 78:DEEP IN THE BARREL, HEADLAND BEHIND

Ryan Ragan turning hard under a breaking lip on a green wave — FIG. 79:UNDER THE LIP

Ryan Ragan hitting the top of a wave and throwing a wall of spray — FIG. 80:OFF THE TOP, SPRAY EVERYWHERE

Ryan Ragan turning hard off the top of a wave in a wetsuit top, spray behind — FIG. 81:HARD OFF THE TOP

Ryan Ragan riding low across a steep green wave face — FIG. 82:DRIVING ACROSS A GREEN FACE

Ryan Ragan hitting the lip of a clean wave with his arm extended — FIG. 83:OFF THE LIP, ARM OUT

Ryan Ragan throwing a snap with spray over deep blue water — FIG. 84:SNAP ON DEEP BLUE WATER

Ryan Ragan in a wetsuit holding his board upright beside a van — FIG. 85:BOARD IN HAND, BESIDE THE VAN

Ryan Ragan standing among four shortboards with the sun low behind bougainvillea — FIG. 86:FOUR BOARDS AND A LOW SUN

Ryan Ragan carving a hard hack off the top of a wave — FIG. 87:HACK OFF THE TOP

Ryan Ragan riding through the foam with another surfer alongside — FIG. 88:TWO SURFERS IN THE FOAM

Ryan Ragan inside a green barrel with a jungle headland behind — FIG. 89:GREEN BARREL UNDER THE HEADLAND

Ryan Ragan throwing a big turn off the top with spray arcing overhead — FIG. 90:BIG TURN, SPRAY OVERHEAD

Ryan Ragan riding under the lip of a blue wave, a swimmer visible in the foreground — FIG. 91:UNDER THE LIP ON BLUE WATER

02: From the logbook

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Reading the water

Photo Gallery

Every figure on file

Lessons on the Water

Surfing with A Pro, Ryan Ragan

Around the Tent

What Surfers Say

Photo Gallery

Every figure on file

Lessons on the Water

Surfing with A Pro, Ryan Ragan

Around the Tent

What Surfers Say