WORLD CONTEST METHOD AND MADNESS IN THE '60s AND '70s

This year marks the first time in the pro surfing era where the men's and women's world titles will be determined not by a surfer's aggregate point total over an entire season, as has been the case since 1976. Instead, the top five men and top five women surfers, as ranked over the course of a seven-event season that finished last month in Mexcio, will face off in the Rip Curl WSL Finals, a one-da...