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Reinventing the Sport-Part III
Joel T. Smith explores the quintessential role Alexander Hume Ford had in the revival of "the ancient sport of kings" at the turn of the 20th century. It was Ford who Introduced the sport to Jack London. Ford was also the founder of the Pan Pacific Union, an organization that put Hawaii on the map as surfing reemerged within Hawaiian culture.
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Beal’s Stash
While Sam George was at Makaha for Buffalo's Big Board Classic, he met a family on the beach who he initially assumed were tourists. They turned out to be the family who owned the house on the point known to him as "The Rich People's House". After their conversation on the beach, he was invited to the Beal family's home that evening for dinner and stories of summers spent at Makaha. After he was back home on the mainland, Sam received and email from Mr. Beal with a file of photos that his grandfather had taken of a big swell. He didn't open the file for two years, but when he did he quickly realized that the photos weren't from just any swell, they were from the historic "Swell of '69".
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Shorter, Lighter, Faster
"Looking at the historical underpinnings of Nat Young's 1966 shortboard-fueled competetive uprising, Reno Abellira writes about how the shortboard revolution could have been predicted years before when Waikiki beach boy Valentine Ching Jr. was tearing it up on his short wooden Paipo board during the late '50s and early '60s."
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The Harbour Chronicles
Rich Harbour started Harbour Surfboards in his parent's Seal Beach house in 1962 before moving into a nearby storefront, the only surf shop in town at the time and then to its current resting place on Main street. 43 years later, Harbour Surfboards is the world's oldest continually-operated surfboard shaping and retail operation. Steve Pezman chronicles the Harbour crew of the 1960's from the formation of the Long Beach Surf Club, to a Baja discovery, and their first attendance of the point-like surf at Honolua Bay.
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Kangaroos, Snow Leopards & Steel-Cut Lines
Wayne Lynch to Kelly Slater. Bells to the backcountry. Seventies soul trim to aughts slabs. Aussie Steve Ryan full-frames Victoria.
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Ego checks and naval models inform our “How big is it?” calls.
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