Chapter: 8
The Ride of Your Life
- Is Surfing Hip?
- Lisa Andersen Surfs Better Than You
- Killer Cute
- Kelly Slater is Just Warming Up
- Rebel for Hire
- I Believe I Can Fly
- A Monster in Half Moon Bay
- Mark Foo's Last Ride
- Open Throttle
- Laird Means Lord
- Tahitian Scream
- A Webcam for Every Wave
- Last Call for Print Media
- Taylor Steele Likes it Rough
- Searching for the Perfect Phrase
- Hollywood Tries Again
- Thirty is the New Twenty
- Andy Irons' Poetic Fury
- The Beast and Beyond
- A Dance with the Past
- Foam is Dead, Long Live Foam
- Nature Gets a Makeover
- Surf in a Box
- The End of History
I Believe I Can Fly
Christian Fletcher. Photo: John Callahan
Davey Smith. Photo: Greg Huglin
Matt Kechele, 1983. Photo: Tom Dugan
Kevin Reed, 1983. Photo: Fred Swegels
Archbold (left) and Slater, 1990. Photo: Brewer
Aerial surfing—any move performed in the airspace just above the wave—was introduced in the late 1970s as a low-altitude imitation of what was being done by skateboarders in empty pools and halfpipes. Much of the pioneering work was done by Kevin Reed and Davey Smith of California, Matt Kechele of Florida, Martin Potter of South Africa and aging Hawaiian pro Larry Bertlemann. At first, there wasn’...
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