Chapter: 7
Long Division
- Return of the Longboard
- Simon Anderson and his Mighty Thruster
- Surf and Destroy
- Terror from Below
- The Unsinkable Tom Carroll
- An Explosion of Talent
- Tom Curren's Mile of Style
- How to Turn a Circus into a Riot
- I Predict Waves in Your Future
- Cult of the Surf Photographer
- Video Killed the Surf Movie
- Waves for Sale
- Surf Boom Redux
- Terminally Hip
- Super-Sizing the World Tour
- Somebody Should Do Something
- Surfers vs Apartheid
- Make Room at the Top, Obrigado!
- The Last Big Wave
- Eddie Aikau's State of Grace
- A Beloved Rival
How to Turn a Circus into a Riot
1986 Op Pro riot. Photo: Mike Balzer
Frieda Zamba, 1984 Op Pro. Photo: Guy Motil
1982 Op Pro winner Cheyne Horan. Photo: John Kerr
Martin Potter, 1987 Op Pro. Photo: Robert Beck
1986 Op Pro. Photo: John Man
Tom Curren was never a flag-waver. Asked by a reporter in 1986 how national pride fit into his recent world-title win, Curren answered that he was “basically doing this for myself.” He married a French woman in 1983, and moved to the Basque coast, near Biarritz, where he spent nearly five years as a de facto American expat. Curren was an exception, however. In the 1980s, surfers across the United...
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