Modern surfing had long ago developed a take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward competition, a legacy that began with Duke Kahanamoku and continued unchanged with Tom Blake and Phil Edwards. During the shortboard revolution, however, many came to regard competition as the very antithesis of surfing—and few were harder on it than new SURFER editor Drew Kampion. Most contests, he wrote, were “asinine displays,” with judging criteria so meaningless that the winner of any given heat “could just as we...
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 Rubberman Cometh /
- The Impossible Wave /
- Into the Vortex /
- Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker /
