Surfing spaces Welcome to surfing spaces Turning towards surfing spaces Locating surfing spaces Relating to surfing spaces The surf riding cyborg The relational sensibilities of surfing spaces The stoke of surf riders The event of surfing spaces The heterogeneous histories of surfing spaces and their cultural colonisation The imagineering of surfing spaces The international influence of the surfing spaces script Coding surfing spaces : surf rider positioning Codes of surf rider provenance Codes of craft Codes of gender Codes of travel : the trans local surf rider New surfing spaces. The act of surfing involves highly skilled humans gliding sliding or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass through water. As this book argues however this act of surfing does not exist in isolation. It is defined by the cultures and geographies that synergize with it by the places ideas images and other representations which at once reflect create and commodify this spatial practice. This book innovatively explores the spaces of surf and surf riding informed specifically by the perspective of human geography. Based on a range of critical turns within the social sciences the book explores the locations relational sensibilities and transformative nature of surfing spaces and examines how the spatial practice has been scripted by dominant surfing cultures. The book details how prescriptive (b)orders of access entitlement and marginalization have been created and how with the advent of new craft media and ideals they are being actively challenged to redefine surfing spaces in the twenty first century