The Short board

Photography By GProPhoto.com

 

Very quick
Surfers have an image of being laid back and relaxed, but set foot onto their beaches or try to ride their waves uninvited and you might see that mellow, Zen-like mentality melt away in an instant. You may even become the next victim of surf rage.





ISF/ISA World Championships
(longboards until 1968, shortboards thereafter)


1964 Midget Farrelly (Aust)
1965 Felipe Pomar (Peru)
1966 Nat Young (Aust)
1968 Fred Hemmings (Haw)
1970 Rolf Aurness (USA)
1972 Jimmy Blears (Hawaii)
1973 – 1977 Event not held
1978 Anthony Brodowicz (SA)
1980 Mark Scott (Aust)
1982 Tom Curren (USA)
1984 Scott Farnsworth (USA)
1986 Mark Sainsbury (Aust)
1988 Fabio Gouveia (Bra)
1990 Heifera Tahutini (Tahiti)
1992 Grant Frost (Aust)
1994 Sasha Stocker (Aust)
1996 Taylor Knox (USA)
1998 Michael Campbell (Aust)
2000 Fabio Silva (Bra)
2002 Travis Logie (SA)
2004 Hira Teriinatoofa (Tahiti)
2006 Jordy Smith (SA)

 

 

 

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