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Shane Beschen spent his professional surfing career raging against complacency. Today, he finds plenty left on tap through a blend of family and business ventures.

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In the wake of the Waialua Sugarmill's closure, several surfboard shapers and glassers, as well as many surfer-owned manufacturing companies, have moved in to create a compound of interesting businesses.

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The undercurrents regard lifegaurd, Bob Butts, showing off his trusty Churchills, information regarding Surfrider staff and board changes, membership info for surfing environmental activist group known as SEA, contact info on Glenn Henning's new organization The Coastal Society, trivia knowledge about the first surfer to have a North Shore surf spot named after them, a brief profile piece on Native American surfer Johnny Rice, his fight/recovery with substance abuse, and his efforts introducing the tribal community to surfing, a photo submitted by Woodworth from Bixby Ranch, which he claims "is the biggest I've ever seen it," a 23 lb. cat with reversed web seat, leg powered by swim fins or a rowing system, promotional ad for Danny Calohan's marine sculptures, promo for an upcoming TV show about surfing scheduled to on KPBS, $25 neck-tie in surfer motif, collector's Edition of MacGillvray's film from 1972 and Pat Caldwell making a hard turn on his bodyboard on a sizable wave.

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Author Shaun Tomson examines the advancements in tube riding since the late 1970's to today with Kelly Slater. Slater tells us about his experiences at Teahupoo and finding the "clear spot amongst the chaos" that is just behind the foam ball inside the tube.

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A transplanted New Yorker’s love affair with California.
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