The Santa Cruz AAAA was held on the weekend of April 6-7, at Santa Cruz Rivermouth. SURFER Magazine went big on the coverage (seven pages; the Duke Invitational, held a few months earlier, got just six) because this was the first contest to feature the Western Surfing Association’s newly-created AAAA division. At the time, as…
1968 SANTA CRUZ AAAA CONTEST, AS SHOT BY BRAD BARRETT
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- 1969 Redondo Beach AAAA
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- 1971 Cotton’s Point AAAA
- 1971 Huntington Beach AAAA
- 1971 Malibu AAAA
- 1971 San Diego AAAA
- 1971 Santa Cruz AAAA
- 1972 Hollywood-by-the-Sea AAAA
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- 1973 Malibu AAAA
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