Dane Kealoha (1984)
Hawaii, 1984
I did the right thing and all of a sudden they changed the rules on us.
“Conversations: on the line with Sam George and Dane Kealoha,” ran in the Jun 1984 issue of Surfing magazine. Kealoha at this moment had gone against an ASP world tour ban against top surfers competing in Hawaii’s Triple Crown events. He won two of the three contests but was penalized by the tour and lost his 1983 ratings points, and lost his Top 16 seed, which brought a premature end to Kealoha’s storied world tour career. The text below has been slightly edited.
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