This really isn’t an answer to your question because I’ve never subscribed to STAB so cannot say that it is worth or not. But to spend money (even if only $10 a month) on the swill that the surf media attempts to pass off as journalism and entertainment, doesn’t make sense to me. Extra dollars spent to watch edits that I fast forward through all of the speaking parts on because listening to surfers speak about boards, and other stuff they don’t understand, is not my cup of tea. Reading “articles” about poor judging at a contest, how edgy the big toothed Gudauskas is or what fluid receptical (sponsored by said receptacle’s manufacturer) I should be drinking my manbucha out of, again, isn’t my jam. Most of the content seems to be driven by the industry with a slant, as it always has been. But this is all just because I’m an elitist snob. And, quite frankly, because surfers are the worst, myself included.