surf Nazi
Description for a hyper-dedicated surfer, often adolescent or preadolescent; sometimes derogatory, but just as often used as a backhanded expression of respect. A popular expression in the late '70s and '80s; rarely heard after that. American surfing has a long, intermittent, and mostly innocuous association with Nazi imagery. In the early 1930s, Pacific System Homes in Los Angeles introduced the...
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Back end of Swastika model surfboard from Pacific Systems Homes, mid-'30sSubscribe to view
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, mid-'60sSubscribe to view
Surfer wearing plastic German army helmet, 1966Subscribe to view
Matt Hoy on Iron Cross surfboard, 1993. Photo: BoskoSubscribe to view
Poster for Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)Subscribe to view
Stab magazine, 2008Subscribe to view
Back end of Swastika model surfboard from Pacific Systems Homes, mid-'30s
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, mid-'60s
Surfer wearing plastic German army helmet, 1966
Matt Hoy on Iron Cross surfboard, 1993. Photo: Bosko
Poster for Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
Stab magazine, 2008