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The complete year in surfing from around the world

The first real crossover web/print package for the surf-industry and sport on a global basis. Truly global distribution through book and surf distribution channels worldwide.

The only annual record of competitive surfing in which emerging surfers get global recognition. Official year reviews from both the professional (ASP) & amateur (ISA) governing bodies.

Long shelf-life, lending itself to collectors for classic library and historical collection. Effective branding thru recognition of roots involvement at all levels, Bali groms to WCTs



Special discount offer

The Surfing Year Book is being offered on-line at a special introductory discounted price during a limited promotional period. Click here for discount offer

The Surfing Yearbook will be available from select surf and book stores throughout the surfing world. With each regional section text in English the book has broad appeal in all surfing markets of the world, including Africa, Europe, South East Asia and Japan, and South and Central America, as well as the mature English language markets of USA, UK, Australia and Hawaii.


Whatever, wherever, whenever…
If it happens in surfing, we’ve got it covered


For years Surfersvillage has led the world in providing the most comprehensive on-line information about the sport, culture and industry of surfing, from the biggest swell events and contests, to the tiniest club meets on the back beaches of the most remote coasts. If it happened in surfing, somewhere, you’ll read about it on Surfersvillage within hours, along with photographs provided by the world’s best surf photographers.

Now, for the first time, the Surfersvillage experience is being offered in print, in a classic and handsomely-bound Surfing Year Book that will enable you to keep and treasure the complete year in surfing. This 240-page illustrated reference work will document and explain everything that happened in your world of surfing in 2008, as well as previewing the important events and players of 2009 and beyond.

Utilizing its global network of contributors, including some of the biggest names in surf media, Surfersvillage is compiling the Year Book that every committed surfer and his or her family must have… the book you will refer to over and over again your entire surfing life.






What’s in The Surfing Year Book

The Surfing Year Book offers the complete package of news, features, results, opinions and photography from all over the surfing world. Collated by the best surf editorial team ever assembled, led by Phil Jarratt, the Year Book provides an insider’s view of everything that matters in each of the world’s surfing regions.

• Contest results, region by region, from smallest to biggest
• The SV Almanac: week by week, all the surfing news
• Analysis and opinion by surfing’s leading opinion makers
• Photo essays from the best surf photographers around the world
• Profiles of all the leading surfers of 2008
• Inside the industry: who’s movin’, who’s shakin’
• Ocean environmental issues, weather and swell reports
• Official ASP year review
• Official ISA year review
• The only global directory of surfing products and services

Everything you need to know about the year in surfing.






Initial Print-run: 30,000 (total print-run 50,000)
Price: $65 (USD, rec retail)
Distribution: Worldwide

Surfersvillage, publisher of the Surfing Year Book, is the world’s biggest surfing news website, with more than 22 million visitor sessions a year taking advantage of its global surf news, results, surf and weather forecasts, feature articles and photo and video galleries.


For more information please click here to contact The Surfing Year Book publishers.