Silver Surfer

photos: Steve Wilkings One of the greatest child phenomenon’s in surfing history, Donald Takayama saved up money from his paper route to buy a plane ticket to California while barely a teenager…

To have developed the first commercial interchangeable fin system, played music drums Dizzy Gillespie, created the first polypropylene fin, mastered the ukulele, designed the wing tip Coaund Lift nose on a surfboard…

Sixteen years after his last WSL/ASP win, 43-year-old logging icon Joel Tudor just won the Noosa Longboard Open, the first stop of the 2020 Longboard Tour. The victory comes over 20 years…

Surfing since age 12, Kim Mearig was riding shapes by alpha shaper Al Merrick and competing at the amateur level by 14, often sharing the limelight with schoolmate Tom Curren. “We went…

In 1980 during a warm-up session at Haleiwa, Debbie Beacham dropped into a 12-foot wave-face, and took a hard wipeout, cracking one of her ribs. Determined not to be sidelined by something…

With a fiery red mane of hair, brightly airbrushed ribbon-patterned boards and an electrifying style both in big waves and small, Boyer had burst upon the competitive scene in 1975, winning the Hawaii State…