HAPPY 43rd TO THE ALL-POWERFUL TAYLOR KNOX

For 40 years now, I have danced and pan-fluted around our sport's great power surfers. Jeff Hakman and Barry Kanaiaupuni, Simon Anderson, Gary Elkerton and Tom Carroll, Sunny Garcia, Taylor Knox, now Michel Bourez—dropping rose petals at their gnarly reef-scarred feet is part of my lifework. I won't say that I have a favorite (not true: I save the finest petals for BK), but credit to Knox for tak...