Chapter: 5
Barefoot Revolution
- Revolution is not a Dinner Party
- The Tao of George
- Getting Slippery with Bob McTavish
- Bismarck with a Tan
- Plastic Machine
- Enlightenment at Honolua Bay
- Panic on the Showroom Floor
- Style Takes a Dive
- Everybody Must Get Stoned
- Surfer Goes Electrical Bananas
- No Contest
- There Will be Slaps
- Kook Straps, Cadillacs, and Sex Wax
- Blame it on the Boogie
- Country Soul
- Higher and Brighter with Alby Falzon
- Fresh Blood on the Newsstand
- Long Road to Bells Beach
- Speed Freaks
- Gods of Thunder
- The Impossible Wave
- Into the Vortex
- Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker
- The Rubberman Cometh
Kook Straps, Cadillacs, and Sex Wax
Surf leash, 1971
Shaun Tomson, 1976. Photo: Dan Merkel
San Diego County, 1974
Greg Weaver, San Diego County, 1975. Photo: Warren Bolster
It was just surf wax, like any other kind of surf wax, except it was round instead of square, came in more scented varieties, and was called "Sex Wax." And people loved saying “Sex Wax."
Whatever problems and changes California surfers were going through in the 1970s, the state continued to do a few things well. It remained the sport’s design and manufacturing center. It produced the most (and most of the best) surf films. Surf-related products in general flourished between San Diego and Santa Cruz. One of the most popular was introduced in 1972, when a bearded Santa Barbara surf ...
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