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Cutting Back

A Glimpse into SURFER's Time-Capsule

JANUARY 1989. Vol. 30, No. 1

On the Cover:
Brock Little. Photo: Warren Bolster

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Just Wham!…Life Commitment
The surfing experience: It grabs you hard, shakes you up, makes you smile.

Hearsay
“Things have changed. I relate my life in Montana to the original North Shore: it’s uncorrupt, and as close to pristine as possible. That’s what surfing was once like.”—Fred Van Dyke

“I came, I saw, I got carved.” —Terry Fitzgerald

THE 17th SURFER POLL AWARD WINNERS:

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WORDS OF WISDOM: 
Excerpts from the Richie Collins’ Profile

On technique: “I just hit it again and again as hard as I can, as many times as possible, until I fall or the wave ends, one or the other.”

On hairstyle: “When I have a shaved head it feels like I can think better. When I’ve got hair it feels kind of like a helmet, keeping everything inside my head sort of trapped.”

On Curren: “I think the guy’s an unreal surfer, yeah. But when I catch myself doing one of those Curren head-snaps, I punch myself in the face. That’s his thing, not mine.”

On free time: “Guys are going, ‘Hey, let’s look at this, or let’s go look at that.’ And I’m going, ‘Hey I’m not here to be a tourist. I could care less about what this place has to offer. I’m here to do a job. I’m here to surf a contest, then I’m going to get my ass out of here, over to the next contest.’”