Tetsuhiko Endo
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Stories By Tetsuhiko Endo
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Big Waves Bring Big Problems To Indonesian Paradise, Part 3
Editor's Note: This is the third of a three-part story on the battle for the surf economy of Indonesia's Mentawai Islands. As resort owners and charter boat...
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Big Waves Bring Big Problems To Indonesian Paradise, Part 2
Editor's Note: This is the second of a three-part story on the war for the surf resources of Indonesia's Mentawai Islands. While tourism reforms are stalled in...
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Big Waves Bring Big Problems To Surfer's Paradise
Editor's Note: This is the first of a three-part story on the battle for the surf economy of Indonesia's Mentawai Islands. As resort owners and charter boat...
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Surfing's 'Scam' And The State Of Longboarding
By now, I trust many of you will have seen the video of this year's Joel Tudor Duct Tape Invitational. If not, watch it. It showcases a...
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Surfing's "Rampant" Drug Problem
Kelly Slater is not the most powerful person in surfing, but he might be the most influential. From building wave pools to sharing opinions on current events,...
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Freesurfers And Selling Out
The debate, such as it is, about the future of professional surfing has calcified into two main groups. The first enjoys professional surfing in the ASP mold. They tune into...
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Making Waves In 2013: What's Next In Surfing
Now that the New Year's booze and drugs are slowly draining out of the system of the collective surfing world, it's time to start thinking about the...
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The Importance Of Bad Sportsmanship
It's been said that I like a good controversy. True. But I've seen so many half-truths, faulty reasonings and outright lies bandied back and forth since Julian...
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Opinion: Why Kelly Slater Should Stop Competing
In the surf industry, you don't mention Kelly Slater's name in vain. It's like a bad boarding school where the class president is given unconditional, ridiculous praise by...
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Crashing Waves: Tales Of The Weak And Strong
I took a surf trip with Zach Weisberg a few months ago. We flew from Sydney to Noosa, then drove deep into the "wilds" of Australia's Gold...
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The Young Grom And The Sea
Where there's Kolohe Andino, there's buzz. And chaperones.In March, for his first time ever, mainland America's great white hope in competitive surfing hit the ASP World Championship...
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Deep Sea: Should Cameron Have Gone?
If you were to take a very large breath and plunge seven miles down to the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the world's oceans, you would...
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The Dark Side Of Surf Party Culture
How much do you know about Hawaii? Besides the Seven Mile Miracle, I mean. Besides Pipeline and Waimea Bay. Besides the Volcom house, the Billabong house, and...
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