“…Surfing is golf these days, and who knows who came up with the different golf club designs? Irrelevant, one might say, except it’s tough to sink a critical putt with a broomstick. Yet knowing the particulars of the creation of the equipment doesn’t change the experience. As we enter the adulthood of Surfing it’s good to remember those who made it possible and pleasurable before they get lost in the mists of time. That this collective vanishment is inevitable is beyond dispute. The history of surfing is being written and rewritten this decade and these words will soon be “cast in stone”, a rather unforgiving medium…” To read this soulful essay in its entirety: http://vagabondsurf.com/CaliforniaHoliday.html