TAIL TAPSurfer: Tom Curren Location: Emma Wood Year: 1981 Tommy, tail tapping the coping in the shore break at Venturas Emma Wood State Beach. Years later, this funky little wave would help foster the talents of a future Channel Islands team rider named Dane Reynolds.

stroll past a classic pin single fin on their way to the top of the point at Rincon

wet rocks known as “The Rock Dance

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Location: Santa Barbara HarborYear: 1980

Featured: The Surfers Journal

Surfer: Steve & Willy Morris

While developing my own approach to shooting action

which probably explained why I was the only one who hooted when Australian Cheyne Horan pulled off a last-minute backside 360 to win the event

wildfire in nearby Ojai filtered out the blue light

preparing to throw themselves into the lineup at the Santa Barbara Harbor’s Sandspit during one of the 1983 El Niño’s biggest swells

California

Everyone else has gone home