Chapter: 4
Ten-Year Boom
- Gidget the All-Powerful
- The Rebel Next Door
- Hobie vs Velzy vs the IRS
- Better Surfing Through Chemistry
- Summer on the Inside
- Surf Fashion, Lightly Salted
- Surfing the Newsstand
- Process of Elimination
- Oil City Showdown
- The Jazz Stylings of Phil Edwards
- Technicolor Surf Boom
- Heroes and Villains
- Blackball Blues
- Dick Dale, Destroyer of Amps
- Surfing in Five-Part Harmony
- Tokyo to Tel Aviv
- Flight of the Larrikin
- Bob Evans Means Business
- Midget Wins It All
- But Will it Play in New York?
- Houses of the Holy
- We Own the Sidewalks
- Beautiful from any Angle
- Duke's Big Contest
- Can You Handle the Penetrator?
- Girls, Don't Panic!
- David Nuuhiwa Walks on Water
- An Invincible Summer
The Jazz Stylings of Phil Edwards
Phil Edwards, Pipeline, 1967. Photo: LeRoy Grannis
Phil Edwards, 1966
Joey Cabell, 1964. Photo: LeRoy Grannis
Ad shoot with (l to r) Mike Hynson, Joey Cabell, Phil Edwards
Phil Edwards. Photo: Bev Morgan
Phil Edwards would go into a turn looking as if he'd been unexpectedly shoved, then finish off smoother than Gene Kelly.
Nothing better highlights surfing’s uncomfortable relationship to competition than the example set in the late 1950s and early 1960s by California surf heroes Miki Dora and Phil Edwards. Both competed on occasion, but neither ever won—and it didn’t matter a bit. Jack Haley, Mike Haley, and Ron Sizemore rode to victory, in that order, in the West Coast Surfing Championships from 1959 to 1961, but e...
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