The Dewey Weber Invitational Longboard Classic, a funky little one-day, no-prize-money “reunion” contest, was held at Manhattan Beach Pier on a warm late spring Saturday in 1981. Dick Dale songs blasted from the PA. Two or three vintage woodies were parked in the lot overlooking the pier. The surf was only waist-high, but David Nuuhiwa, early in the proceedings, caught a fast little left, walked to the nose, hung five, hung ten, and for a moment or two the whole beach time-warped back to 1966...
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 /
