HIDE AND SEEK: THE JOEY HAMASAKI ARCHIVE

Joey Hamasaki, runner-up in the 1966 World Championships, was the smoothest female surfer of her generation; maybe the smoothest ever, although I won't argue with Steph Gilmore fans. Like nearly all the great Hawaiian-born surfers of her day, Hamasaki borrowed heavily from style-lord Paul Strauch—you see it in the bowed stance and proudly upright torso, the quiet arms, the precision that somehow s...

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