Exotic travel and a professional surfing competition circuit—these topics never went out of style during the 1970s. Eventually the two would be reconciled, but for most of the decade they pulled the sport in opposing directions. Travel was the great unifier. All surfers loved to dream about it, plan it, do it, and tell the stories afterward. Pro surfing was divisive: you were for it or against it. Travel and competition had a geographic difference as well. Contests were focused on the surfing...
Chapter 6:
The Fortune Seekers
- Road to Santosha /
- The Kevin and Craig Show /
- Hippie Trail Gold /
- At Play in the Fields of Allah /
- Career Move /
- Grand Prix Dream /
- Follow the Money /
- Big in Japan /
- Rabbit's Big Adventure /
- Shaun Tomson's Tunnel Vision /
- South Africa in Black and White /
- Mark Richards, Gentleman Killer /
- Two Fins, More Wins /
- The Divine Miss M /
Road to Santosha
After Endless Summer, anyone with a few extra minutes and an atlas could figure out that a huge majority of the world’s breaks still waited to be discovered. Not until the shortboard revolution, however, did exotic surf become the sport’s holy grail.