As it had throughout the 1960s and '70s, surfing developed internationally at a happy, ambling pace during the 1980s and early '90s. Vetea David of Tahiti won the juniors’ division of the 1986 World Surfing Championships. From a distance, Peru’s euphoniously-named Luis Miguel “Magoo” de la Rosa, a seven-time national champion from Lima, could easily be mistaken for Tom Carroll. Tel Aviv became a minor European surfing hot spot, and a few dozen Italian ragazzi were thrashing around in the most...
Chapter 7:
Long Division
- Return of the Longboard /
- Simon Anderson and his Mighty Thruster /
- Surf and Destroy /
- Terror from Below /
- The Unsinkable Tom Carroll /
- An Explosion of Talent /
- Tom Curren's Mile of Style /
- How to Turn a Circus into a Riot /
- I Predict Waves in Your Future /
- Cult of the Surf Photographer /
- Video Killed the Surf Movie /
- Waves for Sale /
- Surf Boom Redux /
- Terminally Hip /
- Super-Sizing the World Tour /
- Somebody Should Do Something /
- Surfers vs Apartheid /
- Make Room at the Top, Obrigado! /
- The Last Big Wave /
- Eddie Aikau's State of Grace /
- A Beloved Rival /
