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
Surf Boom Redux
Detail from Gotcha ad, 1987
Surfing using gloves and traction pad, 1989
1985 Billabong Pro
Poster for 1964 Surf Fair, Santa Monica
Action Sports Retailer booth, 1983
By the mid-'80s, a second commercial and pop culture surf boom was on. By almost any quantitative measure, this new boom was bigger than the Gidget-launched craze of the '60s, and it lasted until 1990, when it crashed with a familiar abruptness. There were plenty of new products for what marketers now referred to as “core” (short for hardcore) surfers: the glue-on rubber nose guard to prevent spe...
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