Filosa, Gary
Erratic, fraudulent, high-determined competition promoter and organizer; founder in 1976 of both the American Surfing Association (ASA) and the International Amateur Surfing Federation (IASF); author of the error-riddled Surfer's Almanac. "Filosa spent decades pretending to be the overlord of organized surfing," Australia's Surfing Life magazine wrote 2001. "He constructed a kind of parallel unive...
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The Surfer's Almanac, 1977, by Gary FilosaSubscribe to view
Gary Filosa, 1977. Photo: Art BrewerSubscribe to view
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The Surfer's Almanac, 1977, by Gary Filosa
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Gary Filosa, 1977. Photo: Art Brewer