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GOING TO TOWN
Newquay, sin city - the centre of all vices known to surfing in this country. Too easy. Newquay is a dive, right? Too many clubs, strip joints, surfing superstores and dysfunctional line-ups. Not to mention piles of surfing talent, which has been sucked in and churned out as wasted souls by Newquay. But is this fair? It’s easy to sit on the outside and look in and decide from up on the moral high ground that a town is for sinners. It’s a lot harder to actually go in there and work it out for yourself.
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CARWYNS
I don’t remember the year. I do remember the issue of Surfer mag, though. I still have it - May 1989. I think it was one of the first issues I’d ever seen and, in the middle of it, was an interview with a Welshman. Carwyn, sat by a fire on the beach, talking about his prospects on the world tour. He’d just been crowned European champ and had beaten world champion Damien Hardman in a man-on-man heat. At the time, I thought it must be pretty standard for top British pros to be in international mags. It wasn’t for years that I realised exactly how important a figure Carwyn Williams actually was.
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JASON REPOSAR
REPO IS A CLASSIC...The fi rst time I spoke to him was about two years ago when I fi rst signed my life away to the ‘Length. I didn’t know him personally at the time - I just knew he was a senior at Transworld Surf magazine in the States and I’ve always have been an admirer of his work. Randomly he called me one sunny afternoon and caught me off guard. The conversation seemed a little weird at fi rst and went something like this…
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THE DRUGS DON'T WORK
The scene established a formula for the media’s treatment of drugs in surfing: acknowledge its presence, but leave it to the viewer to make an abstract connection with its actual use. Drugs in surfing became like paedophilia in the Catholic church - everyone knew it was going on, and could even see the consequences, but only occasionally was the issue openly discussed.
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