Pat Curren Coffee Break

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From East To West

Mike Tabeling’s Columbian cartel contact had a problem. Apparently the 20 pounds of choice gold marijuana that Tabeling had fenced to a group of Hawaiian gangsters had not been paid for in full. Scattered throughout the hundred-dollar bills that the Hawaiians had offered as payment were C-notes of another kind: counterfeits that stood out starkly white under a black light. “Get us our money,” the Colombians from Miami told Tabeling’s connection, “or your surfer-punk runner from Cocoa Beach will be getting his last ride.”

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Soundings V

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Secret Surfer

Tracking the life of forgotten two-time world champion Sharron Weber. Excerpted from TSJ 29.4.

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Positioning Statments

Bruce Raymond surfed for the first time at age 8 along the south beaches of Sydney, Australia. Dreaming of riding Rocky Point since age 11, Bruce bought a ticket to Hawaii in 1975 and pursued pro surfing. In 1979, he returned to Australia to become managing director of Quiksilver Garments. Known for his creative genius and big-wave charging, Raymond loves the thrill of discovering new things.

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Sui Generis

Joyce Hoffman established the image of the archetypal pro surfer. Fiercely competitive and highly photogenic, she won four U.S. Championships in the 1960s and 70s, was the first woman to ride Pipe, and became a mainstream media darling. Then she walked away from surfing and really went for a ride… More than three decades later, we caught up with her at Tar Farm Stables, the horse ranch she now manages in Southern California, to talk gender politics in surfing, the ethos of professional and amateur athletics, and how she rediscovered the joys of simply riding waves later in life.