"AN AFTERNOON WITH FRED HEMMINGS," BY PHIL JARRATT (1975)

This short take on soon-to-be IPS founder Fred Hemmings was embedded in a longer article titled "Summer in the Islands," which ran in the July 1975 issue of Tracks. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Fred Hemmings was the world champion back in 1968. He still surfs occasionally and runs the Smirnoff Pro-Am each November. He says most of the surfers don’t understand him, but he knows wh...