''Wave Rider'' was a quarterly

surfing Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitabl ...

magazine from the 1970s. It was launched in 1975 by Gunnar Griffin and John Griffin in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Staff photographers included Rob Battipaglia, Joaquin Garcia and Larry Marshall, as well as Sal Catania, who was a photo editor and staff photographer for a short period of time. Reggie Hodgson was the art director in the late-1970s. ''Wave Rider'' covered international surfing as well as surfing on the

East Coast of the United States The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean. The eastern seaboard contains the coa ...

. ''Wave Rider'' ceased publication in 1982.

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Wave Rider magazine archive — History and Cover Art
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