Chapter: 7
Long Division
- Return of the Longboard
- Simon Anderson and his Mighty Thruster
- Surf and Destroy
- Terror from Below
- The Unsinkable Tom Carroll
- An Explosion of Talent
- Tom Curren's Mile of Style
- How to Turn a Circus into a Riot
- I Predict Waves in Your Future
- Cult of the Surf Photographer
- Video Killed the Surf Movie
- Waves for Sale
- Surf Boom Redux
- Terminally Hip
- Super-Sizing the World Tour
- Somebody Should Do Something
- Surfers vs Apartheid
- Make Room at the Top, Obrigado!
- The Last Big Wave
- Eddie Aikau's State of Grace
- A Beloved Rival
How to Turn a Circus into a Riot
![1986 Op Pro riot. Photo: Mike Balzer](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/4c8bed3866f6b229f6cf592e2e2c46f1d53e6b95-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
1986 Op Pro riot. Photo: Mike Balzer
![Frieda Zamba, 1984 Op Pro. Photo: Guy Motil](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/582b7a616b709db1d448274052b394684d116a5f-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Frieda Zamba, 1984 Op Pro. Photo: Guy Motil
![1982 Op Pro winner Cheyne Horan. Photo: John Kerr](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/d063290c53154448659b1f79fff0cb65d4429996-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
1982 Op Pro winner Cheyne Horan. Photo: John Kerr
![Martin Potter, 1987 Op Pro. Photo: Robert Beck](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/a7a5c8157dd69cc7b5623c7ad1e727da94565973-900x509.jpg?rect=0,2,900,506&w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Martin Potter, 1987 Op Pro. Photo: Robert Beck
![1986 Op Pro. Photo: John Man](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/fdf02caa7d21f3e5e4053da72387898172f00b48-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
1986 Op Pro. Photo: John Man
The surfing on display at the new "parking lot contests" was by and large a hobbled, even comical version of elite-level sportcraft – like Olympic fencers dueling with cardboard tubes.
Tom Curren was never a flag-waver. Asked by a reporter in 1986 how national pride fit into his recent world-title win, Curren answered that he was “basically doing this for myself.” He married a French woman in 1983, and moved to the Basque coast, near Biarritz, where he spent nearly five years as a de facto American expat. Curren was an exception, however. In the 1980s, surfers across the United...
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