Eastern Surfing Association (ESA)

Durable and well-organized amateur competitive association governing the American East Coast, as well as the eastern shores of the Gulf Coast. The Eastern Surfing Association (ESA) was formed in 1967 by New Yorker Rudy Huber and Cecil Lear of New Jersey, partly as a way to demobilize several regional competition groups, each of whom were directing their own version of the East Coast Championships,...