Mike Doyle
Encinitas, 1969 and 1970
You have to know where your head is. You have to know if you're interested in other things, or if you’re just a surf freak.
The first interview, below, is excerpted from “Maturing Like an Artist,” written by Drew Kampion and published in the May 1969 issue of SURFER, just a few months after Doyle won the ’68 Duke Invitational at age 28. The second interview, opening on the topic of on Doyle’s new but ill-fated “single-ski” invention, is taken from “A Conversation with Mike Doyle,” by Doug Fiske, which ran in the November 1970 issue of Surfing.
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You were considered to be one of the best surfers in the wor...