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When John Severson's photo of Kemp Aeberg's famous arched-back turn ran in the second issue of The Surfer it became to surfers, what "Marlon Brando on a Harley" was to the rest of the World. Aeberg talks with Russ Spencer and Jeff Divine about his surf odyssey from age 16 to 34, with some intense triathlon training and competition thrown in the mix.

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A tribute to the wave riders we lost this year.

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The author, on his equipment selection for 8-10’ tropical reef passes: “The surfboard, if you could call it that, was incapable of going anywhere but straight. Its shaper had that part right at least. It was 8’6”x 23”x 4” and essentially rocker-less, with rails boxy to the point of being square. It looked as if the builder had planed the skin off of a blank from the days before close-tolerance molds and then sent it straight to the glasser, no further shaping required. Complementing a bottom that was conspicuously lacking in contour, the board had a half-baked fin setup with a middle appendage that looked like it could keep the <em Queen Mary</em> on course. It was either way ahead of its time, or way not.”
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Laguna Beach sound and vision in Five Summer Stories.

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Watch “The Crab Slab” and other atmospherics in a video essay from our assay of the Cocos-Keeling Islands.
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