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Bright, impulsive, well-traveled surfer and writer from Cocoa Beach, Florida, who once described the sport as "three-dimensional free verse." Valluzzi was born in 1948 and began surfing at age 14; in 1966 he was the men's division runner-up in the East Coast Surfing Championships and competed in the World Championships; in 1967 he competed in the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational in Hawaii.

Valluzzi published his first surf magazine article in 1967, and over the next two decades his byline appeared on more than 20 articles, most of them in 

. His best-known piece was 1982's "Morocco: Surf Madness and 1001 Moorish Days and Nightmares," a high-speed, booze-soaked, first-person travelogue, clearly influenced by gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, grouping Valluzzi with two-time Pipeline Masters winner Rory Russell (described as having "the grin of a convicted sex offender") and photographer Art Brewer ("large and fearless, easily given to thundering tantrums, who thinks Helmut Newton is a pussy-whipped choirboy"). The article was praised by 

 readers, although one letter to the editor called Valluzzi's group "the original ugly Americans," and another cautioned Valluzzi against drinking and driving.

But Valluzzi never slowed down. "I'm really reckless," he said in a 1972 

 interview. "The faster I can go, the more dangerous it is, the more I like it." In 1987, at age 39, Valluzzi died in his Florida home of a drug overdose.

In 1996 Valluzzi was inducted to the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame.

Valluzzi, Bruce

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