Apart from their surfing, Jeff Hakman and Barry Kanaiaupuni, like most surfers from Hawaii, were low-key and unassuming. Both rode plain white or single-color boards. Neither had an eye for fashion. Duly taking their turn under the surf media spotlight, they came off as friendly and earnest and middle-of-the-road. This was standard operated procedure for the Hawaiians: play it cool, and let your surfing do the talking. Duke Kahanamoku never flaunted it. Neither did George Downing or Paul Stra...
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 /