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Jim Kravets relates the story of his surfing initiation at Nias Island, Indonesia. High points: getting rolled on the reef by a monster wave; being stripped of his swim trunks; breaking his surfboard leash; almost drowning.
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Blowing the dust off of noseriders from the Summer of ’66.
Andrew Kidman shares stories about the people, places, and waves featured in "Litmus."
A close pictoral look inside the shaping room and home of Dale Velzy who'se been in the business making wooden balsa surfboards since 1951. Velzy talks about his love of cowboys, his first shaping room under the Manhattan Pier, his current board building and hot rod cars.
Dissecting Thai stick smuggling, military contracts, and the subjectivity of surf history with the author and historian
Surfers are riding unthinkably dangerous waves. Why aren’t more of us dying?