Chapter: 8
The Ride of Your Life
- Is Surfing Hip?
- Lisa Andersen Surfs Better Than You
- Killer Cute
- Kelly Slater is Just Warming Up
- Rebel for Hire
- I Believe I Can Fly
- A Monster in Half Moon Bay
- Mark Foo's Last Ride
- Open Throttle
- Laird Means Lord
- Tahitian Scream
- A Webcam for Every Wave
- Last Call for Print Media
- Taylor Steele Likes it Rough
- Searching for the Perfect Phrase
- Hollywood Tries Again
- Thirty is the New Twenty
- Andy Irons' Poetic Fury
- The Beast and Beyond
- A Dance with the Past
- Foam is Dead, Long Live Foam
- Nature Gets a Makeover
- Surf in a Box
- The End of History
Thirty is the New Twenty
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1999 world champion Mark Occhilupo
![Cori Schumacher, three-time longboard world champion](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/03acf0186c282d9b3dfb6f72f4684fa2341b5f89-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Cori Schumacher, three-time longboard world champion
![Cast of Boarding House: North Shore (2002)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/064f6f1c0d8ae00cbebf2502449cdd1489d8cce3-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Cast of Boarding House: North Shore (2002)
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2000 world champion Sunny Garcia
When the 1999 title went to 33-year-old Mark Occhilupo—still cheerful and guileless despite all his years in the hole; one surf magazine noted that he was not only the oldest surfer on tour but the "most cuddly"—it was the rousing end to a comeback tale that had even the most jaded world-tour mavens snuffling back tears of joy.
Former world champion Wayne Bartholomew was named ASP president in 1999, and he helped steer the organization toward a half-realized goal called the “Dream Tour.” The idea was simple. Trim the tour schedule back. Drop the festival-style, beach-audience, “parking lot” contests. Hold events at A-grade breaks. Some of the goals were met. There had been as many as 25 men’s division events per season ...
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