"AMPLIFIED: RICHIE COLLINS PROFILE," SURFER PROFILE (1989)

"Amplified," by Matt Warshaw, ran in the January 1989 issue of SURFER. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Two months ago in these pages, Richie Collins seemed to give a dying era the final boot when he said, “I’m not a soul surfer—I only surf for competition.” Maybe he means it. Maybe he just understands good copy. Twenty-year-old surfers, by tradition, have had little use for subtlety...

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