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World Surfing Championships, 1972

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Bertlemann, Larry
Blears, Jim
Ho, Michael
Nuuhiwa, David
Townend, Peter

History of Surfing

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Features

"A NINE-DAY ACID TRIP!" DREW KAMPION REPORTS FROM THE '72 WORLD TITLES
"YOU GOTTA PUT ON A SHOW!" PETER TOWNEND INTERVIEW (2014)
ALTERNATIVE SURF HISTORY: LOPEZ WINS '72 WORLD TITLE!
MOTEL HELL: SURFERS SACK LOCAL TRAVELODGE DURING THE '72 CHAMPIONSHIPS
RANDY RARICK REMEMBERS 1972 WORLD CHAMP JIMMY BLEARS

The Sunday Joint

SUNDAY JOINT, 10-24-2021: LAURA BLEARS OF HAWAII, "WORLD TIGRESS OF THE WAVES"
SUNDAY JOINT, 2-10-2019: '72 WORLD TITLES, JIM BLEARS, RANDY RARICK
SUNDAY JOINT, 9-12-2021: WE ARE A HOT SALTY MESS OF A SPORT

Videos

Andrew McKinnon
David Nuuhiwa: The Fish Years, 1971-1972
Jim Blears
Larry Bertlemann
Larry Bertlemann, Off the Wall, 1974

Contests

1964 World Surfboard Championships
1965 World Surfing Championships