Square Peg, Round Hole
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A reader-supported surf publication founded in 1992, The Surfer’s Journal is vivid, authoritative, and independent. The goal of each 132-page bimonthly edition? A completely resolved composition. Balance. Color. Story. And purist surf energy from Page One to close-of-book.
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Drew Kampion traces modern competitive surfing from its beginning in the fifties, with an ascendancy of amateur surfing organizations that culminated in the (amateur) world contests in Australia in 1964 and Peru in 1965. To the International Professional Surfer’s Association (IPSA) formed in the late sixties modeled on golf’s PGA, and to the present Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) formed in the early eighties. Kampion also looks at “mother nature’s inverse law” and the nature of competing on a such a dynamic playing field.
