PHIL BONHAM, SURFING'S ORIGINAL BACKDOOR MAN
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A line from a recent Sunday Joint, about the first two great post-revolution surfers at Pipeline—“Jock Sutherland, my third-favorite surfer as a kid, rode Pipeline like he had a stick of dynamite up his ass; Gerry Lopez rode it like Audrey Hepburn stepping out of a cab on 5th Ave"—prompted New Zealand surfer Phil Bonham, a retired art and art history teacher, to shoot me an email recalling the dec...
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