Wisconsin-born Tom Blake had been riding waves for less than five years when he won the Pacific Coast Championships, but he was already closing in on Duke Kahanamoku as the most influential early-modern surfer. While the gracious and sociable Kahanamoku provided surfing with its emotional center, Blake, restless and nearly humorless, became the sport’s great innovator. He redesigned the surfboard. He changed the way surfers looked. He transformed wave-riding into something broader and more co...
Chapter 2:
Gliding Return
- A Fine Little Revival /
- Jack London Loves Purple /
- California: The New Frontier /
- Beachboy Life /
- Duke Kahanamoku /
- Surf Shooting Down Under /
- The Bronzed Islander Shows How /
- Surfing in the Jazz Age /
- Tom Blake Redesigns the Sport /
- What Depression? /
- When Clubbies Ruled Australia /
- Surfboard as Woodcraft /
- Palos Verdes Surf Club /
- San Onofre: the Nearest Faraway Place /
- Riding the Hot Curl /
- Enter Makaha /
- Death at Waimea /
- The Overwhelming North Shore /
