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

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

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backside

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Bain, Rob

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Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

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Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

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Banks, Jim

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Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

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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

Bertlemann, Larry

Free-spirited professional surfer and hedonist from Copacabana, NSW, Australia; world-ranked #18 in 2011. Wilkinson was born (1988) and raised in Sydney and taught by his dad to surf at age 8. He collected an ISA World Junior Surfing championship in the under-16 division in 2004, then a few years later blitzed the pro tour qualifying series to earn a slot on the 2010 World Championship Tour.

After a lackluster rookie season, his sophomore year on tour was a year-long coming out party. Wilkinson permed his hair and rollerbladed to the contest site each day at the 2011 Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast. He wore a series of custom-printed wetsuits covered in site-specific images at the tour’s cold water events: dollar bills at the Quiksilver Pro New York, a collage of female breasts for the Quiksilver Pro France, and tie dye for the Rip Curl San Francisco event.

A naturally-gifted surfer who blends smooth low-centered power turns with creative airs and fin-free blasts, Wilkinson has nevertheless built his fame less on his surfing and more on his unabashed pursuit of off-kilter fashion, heavy-duty partying, and female tour followers. Nobody was suprised when Wilkinson got arrested for public drunkenness in 2011 after blacking out on the streets of Newport Beach, California.

Wilkinson's style put him at odds—refreshingly so, many thought—with most of his regimented, hard-training pro tour peefs. “God bless surfing,” as journalist Lewis Samuels noted of Wilkinson’s ribald charm. “In few other sports can a beer-bellied, hairy man of average looks strap on rollerblades, get a perm and proceed to bed beautiful women from Rio to Biarritz.”

In 2011, Wilkinson debuted his occasionally bawdy website Out2Brunch.

Wilkinson, Matt

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