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Philip Edwards (born June 10, 1938) is an American surfer from Oceanside, California. [1] He is credited with being the first to surf the Banzai pipeline in Hawaii , [ 2 ] being the first professional surfer, and creating the first signature surf board.
The location's compound name combines the name of the surf break (Pipeline) with the name of the beach fronting it (Banzai Beach). It got its name in December 1961, when surfing movie producer Bruce Brown was driving up north with Californians Phil Edwards and Mike Diffenderfer. Brown stopped at the site to film Edwards catching several waves.
Edwards masterfully rode an exquisite eight-foot tube, immortalized in Brown's 1962 surf film "Surfing Hollow Days." The moniker "Pipeline" was coined by Californian boardmaker Mike Diffenderfer , who, inspired by the waves' resemblance to massive concrete pipes in a nearby construction project, suggested the name to Brown.
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Yater began working for Hobie Surfboards in 1955, primarily glassing balsa boards. [5] [4] [6] He worked with Bobby Patterson, Jimmy Johnson, [6] and Phil Edwards.[2] [4] He moved to San Clemente in 1957 to work for Dale Velzy, [5] [4] where he learned shaping techniques from Velzy himself. [6]
Hawaii’s Landon McNamara, 28, won with a three-wave point total of 135.8 points. That included a perfect score of 50 on the highest-scoring wave of the contest. He won $50,000 and 350,000 miles ...
Doug Falter returned home on the evening of February 3, 2018, teary-eyed and exhausted. The 33-year-old professional photographer had just run from one end of Hawaii’s Waimea Bay to the other ...
Terry Martin (1937 – May 12, 2012) was a California surfer and surfboard shaper who worked for Hobie Surfboards, shaping more than 80,000 surfboards, including boards for surf legends such as Corky Carroll and Phil Edwards. [1] Martin grew up inland and was not exposed to surfing until later into his life.