A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Alexandre, João (Dapin)

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Rough-and-tumble regularfoot brothers from Yallingup, Western Australia, whose surfing seems to improve in direct proportion to the size and danger of the waves. "The sort of blokes," Steve Smith, Jake's trainer, said in 2000, "you'd want in your bunker during wartime."

In 1996, 23-year-old Jake won the ASP World Qualifying Series tour; in 1998 he won the Pipeline Masters over local favorite Bruce Irons with a thrilling last-second barrel, and ended the season world-ranked #9; in 2000 he won the Billabong Pro at Jeffreys Bay and finished the year at #5. Although relatively small (5'9", 155 pounds), Jake was described by 

 magazine as having a "quietly menacing presence," nurtured in part by years of riding the board-snapping reefbreaks in and around his hometown. He returned to Jeffreys in 2001 and successfully defended his Billabong crown, and again finished the season at #5; in 2005, at age 32, he won the Rip Curl Cup at Sunset. By that time he'd become a surfer representative on the ASP board, and later served as a straight-talking announcer during world tour webcasts. "I tend to be brutally honest," Paterson said in 2010. "If someone's surfing well, I say it. And if they're not, I'll give them a bit of the whip."

Paul Paterson, one year older than Jake, won the 1996 World Cup held at Sunset Beach and the 1999 Reef Big-Wave World Championship. He also finished third in both the 2001 and 2002 editions of the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau big-wave events at Waimea Bay, and won the 2001 Billabong XXL Largest Paddle-In award, for a 48-footer, also caught at Waimea.

Presumably to illustrate the Paterson brothers' backwoods-raised earthiness, the boys were photographed covered head to toe in mud for their 2000 

 magazine profile, "Snake and the Antman." Paul Paterson is featured in 

 (1998), and a small number of other surf videos; Jake is featured in 

Paterson brothers, Jake and Paul

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