ALTERNATIVE SURF HISTORY: LOPEZ WINS '72 WORLD TITLE!

Competitive surfing in the age of Nixon needed a rock-bottom moment, a wreck to crawl away from, and with the 1972 World Championships in San Diego it got a beauty. What a bleak and luckless and monumentally stunted event. Conceived with good intentions, sure. Nobody involved set to rip off or otherwise harm the sport. But good intentions were quickly stampeded by bad choices, ineptitude and, abov...