Surfer Classic Series

Drop into the '90s as we profile the many different faces of surfing. We'll find out how attitudes and mental approaches to riding a wave shape a surfer's performance. We'll also talk with surfing's favorite story teller, Bruce Brown, as well as travel to some hot surf spots around the world.

We'll start things off with a ride through the salt water hall of fame and take a look at the legacy of world champions. What better place to do it than Huntington Beach, the Southern Californian beach town dubbed "Surf City", where more surf contests are hosted per week than any other place in the world.

In this week's profile segment, we're hanging with Sunny Garcia & Johnny "Boy" Gomes and the rest of the "Bad Boy Club," a group of surfers who enjoy living the "life's a beach" attitude everyday. Surf Science discovers all is not golden in paradise as we take a critical look at the local Huntington Beach oil spill as well as the Valdez spill in Alaska.

Of the 44 surf spots in Hawaii's North Shore, every surfer knows Pipeline, Sunset and Waimea, but there are good waves breaking in less traveled places. This show will take you to the other 41 surf spots with some of the best free surfers Hawaii has to offer.

A mystical land with magical waves, Bali has become a surfing mecca and is a number one stop for the adventurous surfer. Traveling with John Shimooka and team "Off Shore", we dropped in on some radical but treacherous waves on the exotic breaks of Padang Padang and Uluwatu.

In this special issue we pay tribute to the passing of an age. Our focus is on one of the greatest surfers to ever "take the drop," Shaun Tomson. We'll profile Shaun's illustrious 14-year career that ended when he retired at the end of the winter season in Hawaii.