chrispy

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Michael Stewart is a talker. Get him started on a subject he loves, and he may be at it for hours, holding forth with infectious enthusiasm. One of the subjects he seems to love the best these days is surfing — specifically, how to help surfing live up to its image as an ocean-friendly activity by promoting the manufacture and use of the greenest surfboards available.

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Last month’s fatal shark attack has reignited a long-standing feud between South African surfers, cage-diving operators and local authorities. Central to the issue is the controversial method of chumming, used to coax White sharks closer to shore.

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John Florence is cursed. Cursed by all the terrible possibilities that face a prodigy of his mould. Possibilities like world domination. His style is totally raw and uncoached! Can you believe it?

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“Surfing is my religion.” You’ve seen that slogan in surf magazine ads and on bumper stickers and t-shirts and you may or may not agree with that or think surfing as a religion is silly or dead serious.

But first you have to ask yourself a question: What is religion?

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Big wave surfing is experiencing a paradigm shift. Waves that were once considered rideable only with the aid of jet skis -- waves that were deemed too big, too fast and too heavy to paddle -- are now being reconsidered.

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Taylor Knox, Northern California. Photo: Ellis

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Ry Craike, Dino Adrian, Liam Carter and Michael "the Beef" Keenan are on an epic journey in search of desert slabs and a few goliath fish.

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