Rethinking The Revolution by Kimball Taylor

Our good friend Kimball Taylor had an article published in the surfing section of ESPN.com. Here's the start of it and you can continue on over at The Mothership. Good stuff, 'balla!

Surf historians have long regarded San Diego as a holy site in the development of the modern shortboard. It's a sentiment with which a cadre of legendary residents will agree—adding quickly however, for all of the wrong reasons. This is because surf media continues to attribute one moment in the city's history to the advance of the shortboard revolution: the day in '66 when Australian Nat Young rode a board named "Magic Sam"—a 9'4" Gordon Wood copy of a Bob McTavish hull—to victory at the World Championships held at San Diego's Ocean Beach. [continue reading]