The History of Surfing
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———. “Revving Up: The Longboard Revival.” Surfer, November 1987.
Ginsburg, Michael. “Longboards: They’re Big, They’re Slow, They Just Won’t Go Away.” Surfing, February 1990.
Grigg, Ricky. “The Great Waves of December, ’Sixty-Nine.” Surfer, August 1971.
Grissim, John. “Shark Attack: The Tragic Death of a California Surfer.” Surfing, May 1982.
———. “Sharks: Why Not to Worry About Jaws.” Surfing, August 1980.
Hawk, Steve. “The Traveler’s Guide to Surf Camps.” Surfing, August 1989.
Heckerling, Amy. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. DVD. Universal, 1981.
Holmes, Paul. “Bells: 15′ Super Contest.” Surfer, September 1981.
———. “New Body to Take Over World Pro Surfing: ASP Accepted, IPS Suspended, but Questions Remain.” Surfer, April 1983.
———. “Surf Reporting in the Eighties: Information Access Impacts the Surfer.” Surfer, August 1987.
———. “The Essential Anderson.” Surfer, December 1981.
———. “Which One Will Be Top Cat Next Year?” Surfer, May 1983.
Hynd, Derek. “Showdown at the Hall of Fame.” Surfer, August 1985.
Jarratt, Phil. “Call Me Mr. Elkerton.” Surfer, December 1987.
———. “Coming Out on Apartheid.” Surfer, November 1985.
Jenkins, Bruce. “The Nation of Ken.” Surfer’s Journal, early spring 2001.
Johnson, Greg. “Show Is Where Action Is in Sports Fashions Retailing.” Los Angeles Times, September 18, 1990.
Jones, James. “Tube-Riding Waimea: A Journey Through Time and Space.” Surfing, August 1977.
Kampion, Drew. “Longboard Events Attracts Old-Timers.” Surfing, September 1982.
———. “Still Waters Run Deep: Interview: Tom Curren.” Surfer’s Journal, fall 1993.
———. “Tom Curren: California’s Top Ranked Amateur Steps Up Into the Big Leagues.” Surfing, October 1982.
Kathleen, Brady. “If Everybody Had an Ocean . . . But Even Water Is Not Essential to Join the Surf Craze.” Time, August 18, 1986.
Kelly, John. Surf and Sea. A. S. Barnes, 1964.
Kempton, Jim. Big Wednesday review. Surfer, September 1978.
Keteyian, Armen. “Riding the Wave of the Future.” Sports Illustrated, July 8, 1985.
Kidman, Andrew. “Intelligent Design: An Interview with Simon Anderson.” Surfer’s Journal, April 2006.
Kluger, Jeffrey. “Sharkless Seas.” Time, January 27, 2003.
Krier, Beth Ann. “Gotcha Rides Third Wave in Surf Style.” Los Angeles Times, October 23, 1987.
Langway, Lynn. “Attack of the Wannabees.” Newsweek, July 6, 1981.
Ledterman, Kurt. “Thinking Longer.” Surfer, December 1973.
Marcus, Ben. “Two Faces of Brazil.” Surfer, August 1994.
Martin, Andy. Stealing the Wave: The Epic Struggle Between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo. Bloomsbury USA, 2007.
Maslin, Janet. “Big Wednesday Gets Caught in Some Rough Surf.” New York Times, July 28, 1978.
McNulty, Patrick. “Have Forecast: Then Travel.” Petersen’s Surfing, April 1969.
Medeiros, Vince. “Brazil Nuts: Mad or Misunderstood?” Australia’s Surfing Life, March 2000.
Milius, John. Big Wednesday. Warner Brothers, 1978.
Minetree, Harry. “The Last Wave: Shaun Tomson Loves Surfing so Much He Hates to See It Turn Into a Professional Sport.” Penthouse, August 1979.
Naughton, Kevin. “Fiji: A South Pacific Wave Garden.” Surfer, December 1984.
———. “Has Video Killed the Surf Movie?” Surfer, September 26, 1985.
———. “Surf Resorts: Pay to Play.” Surfer, May 1985.
O’Sullivan, Kevin. Goin’ Big: Gotcha and the Evolution of Modern Surf Style. Full Force, 2008.
Paddock, Richard. “Surfers Force Pulp Mills to Halt Ocean Pollution.” Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1991.
Parrish, Michael. “Portrait of the Surfer as a Middle-Aged Man.” New West, May 1981.
Pasternak, Judy. “Wave of Water Parks: Surfin’ in the USA Goes Inland.” Los Angeles Times, August 22, 1986.
Perry, Mike. “A Few of the Boys.” Surfer, September 1978.
Pratte, Tom. “Malibu Lagoon Revisited.” Surfer, March 1985.
Rarick, Randy. “Big Waves, Big Men: Tthe Legends Ride at Eddie Aikau Memorial Contest.” Surfing, July 1986.
Robbins, Gary. “Surfrider Foundation Tries to Shred Sport’s Bogus Image.” Orange County Register, June 23, 1991.
Rose, Frank. “Walking on Water.” Esquire, March 1982.
Rowe, Jeff. “Ocean Pacific’s Sales Tide Rises with Off-Beach Wear.” Los Angeles Times, January 11, 1987.
Rubel, Marc. “Op Pro.” Surfing, January 1983.
Sargeant, Paul. “The Boys from Brazil.” Surfer, July 1989.
Sharp, Bill. “Smoke on the Water.” Surfing, January 1987.
———. “Who the Hell Is Mark Occhilupo?” Surfing, October 1984.
Strause, Charles. “Phone’s Up: OC Firm used new 1-900 Pacific Bell Number to Spread Word on Surf.” Los Angeles Times, July 22, 1989.
Surfing, “25 Years of Surfing and Hollywood,” October 1989.
———, “Don King,” July 1987.
———, “Hawaii: Mass Media Waves,” May 1970.
———, “Hindsight: Dane Kealoha,” April 2008.
———, “Looking Back with Gary Kong Elkerton,” March 2005.
———, “Reach Out and Check the Surf: High Tech Surf-Phone Comes to Southern California,” June 1985.
Taublieb, Paul. “NSSA: A Sign of the Times.” Surfer, July 1981.
Tomson, Michael. “New Beginnings for Pro Surfing: ASP Replaces IPS as Competitive Governing Body.” Surfing, May 1983.
TransWorld Surf, “Last Month’s Poll Question: How long would you wait to return to a spot where a fatal shark attack occurred?” September 2005.
Turk, Rose-Marie. “Fashion ’86; Surf’s Up All Over the World in Wave of California Beachwear.” Los Angeles Times, November 21, 1986.
Varnes, Mitch. “Laine Booted from Barbados.” Surfing, April 1991.
Warshaw, Matt. “A Greater Power.” Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1994.
———. “Heavy Duty: The Rise, Fall, Rise, Fall and Rise of Mark Occhilupo.” Surfer, July 1997.
———. “The Divided Rulers of Waimea Bay.” Outside, May 1988.
———. “The Ultimate Thrill.” Surfer, May 1987.
Weber, Jonathan. “A New Wave in Forecasting Surfing: Sean Collins.” Los Angeles Times, July 31, 1990.
Whiting, Sam. “Mark Massara Figured if He Could Defeat Pulp Mills He Could Organize Surfers.” San Francisco Chronicle, October 7, 2007.
Chapter 8: The Ride Of Your Life: 1990–2009
Achenbach, Joel. “Into the Teeth of Jaws.” National Geographic, November 1998.
Ahrens, Chris. “The Importance of Being Joel.” Surfer’s Journal, summer 1999.
Ambrose, Greg. “Surfing the Net: Tech-Wary Board Riders Find the Web Isn’t All Wet.” San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2000.
Arritt, Dan. “Riding the Wave: Reality Shows Have Helped Push Surfing Back into View as Advertisers Tap into the Lifestyle.” Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2003.
Australia’s Surfing Life, “ASL’s Guide to Air Moves,” November 1996.
Baker, Tim. “It’s Surfing Jim, But Not as We Know It: Silly Tricks in Little Waves, or the Future of Our Sport?” Australia’s Surfing Life, August 1992.
———. “Pauline’s Pain.” Australia’s Surfing Life, April 1994.
———. “The Science of the Superbank.” Surfer’s Path, December 2003.
Barilotti, Steve. “Celluloid Sacrament.” Surfer, July 2004.
———. “Evolution: Joel Tudor Just Wants to Turn You On.” Surfer, October 1998.
———. “The Man with Fearless Eyes.” Surfer, August 1991.
———. “Maste
r of Hhis Destiny: Slater Wins Pipe Masters, Triple Crown, and the World Title, All in One Glorious Afternoon.” Surfer, April 1996.
———. “PSI: The 10 Most Powerful Breaks in the World.” Surfer, September 2002.
Berkley, Alison. “Skin Deep: Do You Look as Good as You Surf?” Surfer Girl, 1999.
Berlin, Linda. “A Better Board? Success of Computer-Aided Design Stirs Surfing Controversy.” Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1996.
Brannon, Ash. Surf’s Up. Sony, 2007.
Brisick, Jamie. “Rushes: Viewing Life’s Dailies with Jack McCoy.” Surfer’s Journal, summer 2003.
Carroll, Nick. “Boom! The Great Beginner Wave of the 21st Century and How It’s Gonna Take Over All Our Lives.” Surfing, November 2002.
———. Fearlessness: The Story of Lisa Andersen. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007.
———. “A Good Hard Look at Occ.” Australia’s Surfing Life, January 2000.
———. “Machine Head.” Surfing, June 2001.
———. “Only the Fit are Fearless.” Australia’s Surfing Life, April 1998.
———. “Slater.” Surfing, May 1995.
Carroll, Nick, and Derek Hynd. “The Slater Block: Who Will Beat Slater . . . and Drive Surfing into the New Century?” Australia’s Surfing Life, November 1997.
Checkwood, Aaron. “The Showdown.” TransWorld Surf, March 2004.
Cote, Justin. “The Toughest Fucking Man in Surfing.” Stab, March 2004.
Delson, Jennifer. “Widow of Worker Sues Foam Factory.” Los Angeles Times, July 27, 2006.
Dixon, Chris. “Catching a Cultural Wave (Just Don’t Try to Define It).” New York Times, June 29, 2002.
———. “Immediate: Jacking into the Surf-Information Pipeline.” Surfer, October 1996.
Duane, Dan. Caught Inside. North Point Press, 1996.
———. “Last Man Standing.” Men’s Journal, July 2004.
———. “When a Man Loves a Rival.” New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2006.
Earnest, Leslie. “Apparel Retailers Catch New Girls’ Surfing Wave: Sales May Beat Men’s, and a New Film Could Help.” Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2002.
Epstein, Edward. “Huge Waves Kill Famous Surfer.” San Francisco Chronicle, December 24, 1994.
Fave, Dennis. “The Art of Making Surfboards Has Become More of a Science.” New York Times, May 27, 1999.
Finnegan, William. “Blank Monday: Gordon Clark’s Decision to Shut Down Surf-board Manufacturer Clark Foam in the Wake of Foreign Competition.” The New Yorker, August 21, 2006.
———. “Playing Doc’s Games.” New Yorker, August 24 and 31, 1992.
Garrett, Ross. “The Surfer Interview: Rochelle Ballard.” Surfer, January 2003.
George, Matt. “In God’s Hands: My Breakfast with Darrick Doerner.” Surfing, July 1996.
———. “Keala Kennelly.” Surfer, August 2002.
George, Sam. “Is Surfing Hip? Absolutely—Though We Seem to Have Forgotten Why.” Surfer, August 1998.
———. “Man vs. Nature.” Surfer, April 2004.
———. “The Surfer Interview: Jack McCoy.” Surfer, December 2003.
Gili, Enrique. “House of Standing Waves.” Surfer’s Path, August 2005.
Gillespie, Spike. “If the Power’s On, the Surf’s Up: Who Needs an Ocean When You Can Make Your Own Waves?” New York Times Magazine, June 16, 2002.
Gomes, Johnny-Boy. “Dealing with Localism Overseas.” Australia’s Surfing Life, June 1995.
Gray, Mark. “It’s Good to be King!” Surfer’s Path, August 2006.
Greenfeld, Karl. “Killer Profits in Velcro Valley.” Time, January 25, 1999.
Hamilton, Anita. “Girls in the Curl.” Time, August 26, 2002.
Herman-Cohen. “A French New Wave: Surfer Scene Inspires Hot-Weather Fashions that Leave the Clichés Behind.” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2002.
Higgins, Matt. “Surf’s Upscale as Sport Reverses Beach Bum Image.” New York Times, February 11, 2007.
Hoffman, Carol. “Endless Summer (On Demand).” Wired, May 2004.
Jenkins, Bruce. “20th Century Man.” Surfer’s Journal, fall 1997.
———. “Condition Black.” Surfer, July 1998.
———. “The Next Realm?” Surfer, December 1993.
———. “The Real Thing.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 18, 2003.
Johnson, Greg. “Show Is Where the Action Is in Sports’ Fashion Retailing.” Los Angeles Times, September 18, 1990.
Josephs, Leslie. “Surfing Begins to Cross Class in Peru.” Associated Press, May 7, 2007.
Kuiper, Dean. “The Aerial Generation.” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2001.
LaTourette, Dean. “Nature or Nurture? Are Man-Made Wwaves about to Change the Face of Surfing Forever?” Surfer’s Path, August 2005.
Linden, Natalie. Surf Girl Roxy. Chronicle Books, 2008.
Lopez, Steve. “New Wave in Board-Building Goes to the Soul of Surfing.” Los Angeles Times, August 2, 2002.
Marcus, Ben. “Backdoor in Biloxi: The Next Generation of Wavepools are Coming.” Surfer, September 2006.
———. “Cold Sweat.” Surfer, June 1992.
———. “Crouching Tiger, Smoking Dragon: The Tao of Tow.” Surfer’s Journal, summer 2001.
———. “Foaming at the Mouth: Surf Industry in Uproar at Closing of Major Supplier.” LA Weekly, December 16, 2005.
———. “Lisa Andersen: Still Looking for a Home.” Surfer, February 1996.
———. “Monkey Off Her Back.” Surfer, April 1995.
Martin, Andy. Stealing the Wave: the Epic Struggle Between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo. Bloomsbury USA, 2007.
Mauro, Chris. “Reawakening.” Surfer, February 2005.
———. “Turning the Corner.” Surfer, June 2007.
McCoy, Jack. “Massive Attack.” Surfer, February 2001.
———. To’: Day of Days. DVD. Image Entertainment, 2003.
McIntosh, Sam. “How Andy Irons Smoked the Momentum Generation.” Stab 4, 2004.
Mintz, Jenni. “‘Green’ Surfboards are More Environmentally Friendly.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 12, 2007.
Morrison, Mike. “Digital Stoke: Why Surfers Are Stroking into the Internet.” Surfer, March 1995.
Myers, Nathan. “What Board Should You Ride? Reinventing Your Quiver in a Post-Clark World.” Surfing, January 2007.
Newman, Andy. “Rule of the Waves: Hang 10 and Call Your Lawyer: Surfing-Related Violence Is on the Rise at Beaches Around the World.” New York Times Magazine, December 17, 2000.
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Orlean, Susan. “Life’s Swell.” Women Outside, fall 1998
Paddock, Richard. “Surfers Force Pulp Mills to Halt Ocean Pollution.” Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1991.
Parmenter, Dave. “A Shaper’s Fugue.” Surfer’s Journal, fall 2004.
———. “Big Time.” Surfing, July 1987.
Paul, Deborah. “Wipeout? Pratte’s Reef Disappoints Some Local Surfers, but Backers
Say Wait and See.” Los Angeles Times, November 16, 2000.
Pawle, Fred. “The King of Queens.” Stab, September 2007.
Peralta, Stacy. Riding Giants. Sony, 2004.
Peruzzi, Marc. “Surf Bored: Bemoaning Our Cultural Wipeout.” Outside, July 2008.
Price, Marc. “Conversations: Martin Potter.” Surfing, June 1983.
Sharp, Bill. “The End of the Innocence: Inside the Internet Collapse of Hardcloud and Bluetorch.” Surf News, October 2000.
Sherrill, Martha. “Gidget Kicks Ass.” Outside, November 1996.
Slater, Evan. “Call of the Wild.” Surfing, January 2005.
Slater, Kelly, with Jason Borte. Pipe Dreams. ReganBooks, 2003.
Spurrier, Jeff. “A Generation of Gidgets: Female Surfers Are Back in the Lineup, in Droves.” Atlantic Monthly, April 2002.
Steele, Taylor. �
��Images Are Everything.” Surfing, March 1998.
Sterns, Kai. “Marketing a Movement: Why Chicks Are Suddenly Cool.” Surfing, March 1999.
Surfer, “25 Most Powerful People in Surfing,” September 2002.
———, “Human Touch: Christian Fletcher,” December 1990.
———, “Warning: This Wave May be Surfed by Paying Customers Only. Trespassers Will be Prosecuted,” February 1999.
Surfer’s Journal, “Soundings: Six Voices on the Future of Surfboard Manufacturing,” June 2006.
Surfing, “60 Seconds: Sunny Garcia,” November 2003.
———, “The Case for Slabs,” March 2003.
———, “Joel Tudor,” October 1998.
Tizon, Tomas. “Onward Christian Surfers.” Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2006.
TransWorld Surf Online, “Raise Your Hand if You Surf.” January 5, 2001.
Warshaw, Matt. “Fortunate Son: The Unreal World of Christian Fletcher.” Surfer, April 1990.
———. “The Franchise: Kelly Slater as Sportsman, Businessman, Father and Freak.” Surfer, October 1998.
Wilkinson, Peter. “The Last Wave.” Rolling Stone, April 20, 1995.
Winton, Tim. Breath. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.
Zuniga, Janine. “Kids Surf and Learn at Camp.” San Diego Union-Tribune, July 18, 2001.
Photo and Illustration Credits
Author’s note: I did my best to track down the “unknown” photographers and artists whose work is featured in the early chapters of this book, but in most cases I came up with nothing. Any information about these photographers can be sent to Chronicle Books, care of “The History of Surfing.”
Cover: John Severson
1: Jeff Divine
2: DJ Struntz/A-Frame
3: Greg MacGillivray
4: unknown/Surfing Heritage Foundation
5: Surfer archive
6-7: Don James
8: collection of Hobie Alter
12: Doug Acton
14-15: Wallis MacKay
20: Paul Kennedy
22: Jaques Arago
26-27: unknown/Bishop Museum
28: F. Howard
30-31: John Webber
33: Jeux Haviens
34: (left) unknown, (right) unknown
36: Theodore Severin/Bishop Museum
38-39: Tom Blake/Surfing Heritage Foundation
43: Ray Jermoe Baker/Bishop Museum