NAT YOUNG AND THE '74 SURFABOUT. IT'S COMPLICATED

I am optimistic about professional surfing. My wobbly Twitter feed often says otherwise, I know. When a tight world title race gets routed through feckless European beachbreaks, for instance. Or when Joe Turpel's adenoidal phrasemaking worms into my Celexa-fortified pyramid of calm. But the new men's world champion is under 30 years old and Brazilian and polarizing and mysterious and I can't take...

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