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Right after Thomas Hickenbottom signed with Arcadia Publishing last fall to compile a pictorial history of surfing in Santa Cruz, the bottom fell out of his plans. Hickenbottom, a Santa Cruz native and professional surfer during the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, knew he’d have no problem gathering photographs from the 1950s and 1960s; his friends had plenty of those. But the collection he was relying on for 90 percent of the vintage photos from the 1940s and earlier –photos belonging to original Santa Cruz Surfing Club member Harry Mayo–was suddenly off limits, tied up in litigation over rights to the images and the club name.
It may have been a blessing in disguise. Nerve-racking though it was, it forced Hickenbottom to reach out to other surfers, some of whom had moved away from Santa Cruz years before. Slowly the significance of his task dawned on him.
“I didn’t realize what a cosmic thing I was doing for the whole surfing community, to be able to talk to all these people and sit in their living rooms …Â Details
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Surfing – Maya Gabeira scores one of biggest wave ever by a woman for the Billabong XXL Awards
Maya Gabeira, Grant Baker, Andrew Marr, Greg Long and others scored massive Dungeons yesterday off Cape Town, South Africa, producing a slew of leading entries in the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards.Â
Is Maya Gabeira on the Biggest Wave Ever by a Woman? … Details & picture
The opening day of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 3-Star Quiksilver Pro Puerto Escondido saw local surfers dominate the early rounds of competition in front of their home crowd, reveling in the early-morning three-to-four foot (1 metre) barreling surf to advance through to the latter rounds.
Surfers competing on the ASP WQS are out to gain the valuable ratings points on offer towards qualification for the 2009 ASP World Tour, with only 15 surfers advancing from the grueling series on to the prestigious ASP Dream Tour each following year. Once qualified, surfers earn the right to battle the world’s finest 45 competitive surfers in an attempt to claim the title of ASP World Champion… Details