West, Claude

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Australian surfing pioneer from Sydney's Manly Beach; winner of the national surfing championship from 1919 to 1924. West was born (1898) in Sydney, raised in Manly, and began bodysurfing as a child. He was on the beach when Hawaiian surfer and swimmer Duke Kahanamoku gave a wave-riding demonstration at nearby Freshwater in 1914, using a nine-foot board he made himself from a slab of sugar pine; t...

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