"JAPAN: RUNNING ON EMPTY," BY MICHAEL TOMSON (1979)
Michael Tomson covered the four-event 1979 Japan leg of the WCT for Surfing magazine. The article ran in the October issue. This version has been lightly edited. * * * It was Sunday, May 12, at Tsushido Beach in Shonan, Japan, and the T-shirt in front of me had five names already scrawled on it in heavy black marker pen: Mark Richards, Shaun, Michael Ho . . . all surfers he had seen in Free R...