Chapter: 5
Barefoot Revolution
- Revolution is not a Dinner Party
- The Tao of George
- Getting Slippery with Bob McTavish
- Bismarck with a Tan
- Plastic Machine
- Enlightenment at Honolua Bay
- Panic on the Showroom Floor
- Style Takes a Dive
- Everybody Must Get Stoned
- Surfer Goes Electrical Bananas
- No Contest
- There Will be Slaps
- Kook Straps, Cadillacs, and Sex Wax
- Blame it on the Boogie
- Country Soul
- Higher and Brighter with Alby Falzon
- Fresh Blood on the Newsstand
- Long Road to Bells Beach
- Speed Freaks
- Gods of Thunder
- The Impossible Wave
- Into the Vortex
- Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker
- The Rubberman Cometh
No Contest
Wayne Lynch, Bells, 1968. Photo: Jill Blunk
Wayne Lynch, 1968. Photo: John Witzig
Miki Dora, 1967 Malibu Invitational. Photo: CR Stecyk
No Contest
Bill Hamilton, Sunset, 1973
Modern surfing had long ago developed a take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward competition, a legacy that began with Duke Kahanamoku and continued unchanged with Tom Blake and Phil Edwards. During the shortboard revolution, however, many came to regard competition as the very antithesis of surfing—and few were harder on it than new SURFER editor Drew Kampion. Most contests, he wrote, were “asinine di...
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