PIPE MASTERS CREATOR FRED HEMMINGS: "I WANTED TO DEVELOP SOMETHING FOR THE AVERAGE SCHMUCK IN MIDDLE AMERICA"

Matt Warshaw's interview with Fred Hemmings ran in the Winter 1995 issue of Surfer's Journal. * * * The Pipeline Masters was a strange little one-heat contest at first; how did you come up with the idea? I wanted to develop a format that would look good on television so I could market surfing to a larger audience—to the average schmuck watching TV in Middle America. And Pipeline seemed like a ...

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