Reno Abellira – Biography Reno Abellira entered surfing’s collective consciousness at the 1968 World Contest in Puerto Rico. He didn’t win or even get second. But his path to sixth place revealed some of the fastest surfing ever seen at the time, drawing unconventional lines in a conventional time. While the traditional approach of Fred [...]

Ian Cairns – Biography Ian Cairns has proven to be one of the most energetic and prolific contributors to competitive surfing. An early proponent of “legitimizing” the sport, Cairns was at times a polarizing figure as surfing’s traditional expressionist ideals clashed with its burgeoning mainstream aspirations. Plodding through the sport’s infancy as an amateur performer [...]

Peter Townend – Interview When did you begin surfing? Well, I grew up in Coolangata on the Gold Coast of Aulstralia. There used to be four insane banks instead of the one superbank like there is now.  I surfed a lot of Kirra. That was before it was a resort tourist town. My parents were [...]