For the most part, Hawaii didn’t get involved in the verbal shoving match between California and Australia, immediately after the 1966 World Championships. Jock Sutherland of Haleiwa had placed runner-up to Nat Young in San Diego, and earned his fellow islanders a nice piece of competition glory. Except they didn’t really need or want it—at least not the way the Aussies and US mainlanders did. Hawaii had a different ranking system. Outperforming the beachbreak heroes in San Diego or Sydney wa...