Wave Rider was a quarterly surfing magazine from the 1970s.[1] It was launched in 1975 by Gunnar Griffin and John Griffin in Cocoa Beach, Florida.[1]
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.
Wave Rider ceased publication in 1982.