My Writings 2020-2025

The past five years, I've continued writing -- mostly editing, correcting and adding -- about surfing's history. Now in my 33rd year as a "surf writer," I continue to learn more about surfing's history, culture and legendary surfers every day!

My two active locations on the Internet are:

LEGENDARY SURFERS: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/

LEGENDARY SURFERS Facebook Group: https://web.facebook.com/groups/99148475798/

Nature = God

Tom Blake

My Writings in the Year 2020

 My writings in 2020 were all about surfing and are located at:

• LEGENDARY SURFERS -- the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center; mostly older material.
• LEGENDARY SURFERS -- 2nd and newer material site.

Chapters Added in Early 2020

In the first half of 2020, LEGENDARY SURFERS chapters added -- both new, edited and freed from behind a pay wall -- include:

Bud Browne (1912-2008): https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/01/bud-browne-1912-2008.html

Surfing Year 1955: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/02/surfing-year-1955.html

Malibu: Tomol to Tubesteak: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/04/malibu-tomol-to-tubesteak.html

Surfing Year 1956: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/05/surfing-year-1956.html

Surfing's Revival (1900-1915): https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2019/10/surfings-revival-1900-1915.html

Traditional Hawaiian Surf Culture: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2018/05/traditional-hawaiian-surf-culture.html

Traditional Hawaiian Surfboards: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2018/05/traditional-hawaiian-surfboards.html

Chapters Added Later in 2020

In the last half of 2020, LEGENDARY SURFERS chapters that were added, edited or offered free include:

Surfing Year 1956: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/05/surfing-year-1956.html

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz (1921-2014): https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/06/dorian-doc-paskowitz-1921-2014.html

Surfing Year 1958: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/07/surfing-year-1958.html

From Wood to Foam: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/07/from-wood-to-foam.html

The Malibu Board: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-malibu-board.html

Surfing Year 1959: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/08/surfing-year-1959.html

Phil Edwards: The Early Years: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/09/phil-edwards-early-years.html

Surfing Decade: The 1910's: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/09/surfing-decade-1910s.html

Surfing Year 1960: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/10/surfing-year-1960.html

Surfing Decade: The 1920's: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/10/surfing-decade-1920s.html

Gene "Tarzan" Smith (1911-1986): http://www.legendarysurfers.com/2014/12/tarzan.html

Surfing Year 1961: https://legendary-surfers.blogspot.com/2020/12/surfing-year-1961.html

Writing in 2018 and 2019

Most of my writing now takes place at my surfing history websites:

• LEGENDARY SURFERS hosted at the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center (SHACC)
• LEGENDARY SURFERS 2nd, but now primary site

Early Surfing in The British Isles

My first Amazon Kindle edition in the form of an ebook:

The history of surfing's early beginnings in the British Isles, 1890-1943.

Click on the link below the image to read a bit about it and look inside:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075FRGWZ8/

"Sunshine Revolutionaries," 4th Edition

First self-published in 1987 under the title "Don't Bank on Amerika," this comprehensive history of the Isla Vista riots of 1970 was later titled "Sunshine Revolutionaries" (1996-2002). I changed the title back again in 2004 to "Don't Bank on Amerika," but I found many people confused between my history of the riots and the film that was done during those times, with the same name.

So, for this fourth edition (2017),  I've reverted back to "Sunshine Revolutionaries," the name under which it is copyrighted. At 224 pages, it remains the best and most detailed single resource available on the riots.

It is now available as an ebook for $4.99 at Lulu.com:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/malcolm-gault-williams/sunshine-revolutionaries/ebook/product-23317893.html

THUNG YAI

Thip's and my 2012 trip to Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary was an exciting time, travelling to one of the most remote areas of Thailand. I decided to publish my journal about it, with pictures that Thip and I took during the journey, and make it available as a free downloadable ebook. To preview it and/or download, please go to: http://www.lulu.com/shop/malcolm-gault-williams/thung-yai/ebook/product-21041491.html

LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: The 1930s

At long last, I stopped procrastinating and finally did the technical work to make LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: The 1930s ... a reality.

Volume 3 is a continuation of the chronological history I have been working on for the past 18 years. It is what it says it is: all about the surf world of the 1930s and is available at:

LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: The 1930s

I have discounted the book by 20%, but may change that in the future if I go to a bigger font size.

List price is $29.95 (U.S. Dolllars). I'm selling it for $23.96, which will save you $5.99.

As always, I hope you enjoy my writings on surf history and welcome any feedback you are willing or have time enough to share. My email address is: legendarysurfer@gmail.com

Aloha!

1930s: Beginning

LEGENDARY SURFERS: 1930s: Beginning

The 1930s: Prelude

The first chapter of LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: The 1930s is:

 "The 1930s: Prelude"

LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: The 1930s

I am currently serializing my previously unpublished Volume 3 of LEGENDARY SURFERS on the surfing decade that was the 1930s. Please check-in frequently or subscribe via RSS for automatic notification of when new excerpts are posted and the ability to read them in your own newsreader.

To begin reading about the surfing world during the 1930s, please go to:

LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: The 1930s

Surf Writings - 2010s

• "The Early History of Peruvian Surfing," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2010.

Surf Writings - 2000s

• "Alexander Hume Ford (1868-1945)," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2009.

• LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 2: Early Twentieth Century Surfing and Tom Blake, ©2007.
  
  
  

• "The 1920s," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2006.
  
  
  

• "The 1910s," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2005.
  
  
  

• LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 1: 2500 B.C. to 1910 A.D., ©2005. What's in Volume 1
  
  
  

• "Duke Paoa Kahanamoku," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©1999, 2005.
  
  
  

• "The First Surfers," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©1992-2005.
  
  
  

• "Traditional Hawaiian Surf Culture," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©1992-2005.
  
  
  

• "Ancient Hawaiian Surfboards," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, ©1992-2005.
  
  
  

• "Gene 'Tarzan' Smith," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2005.
  
  
  

• "TARZAN REDUX: Chapter Fill-Ins From The Life of Gene Smith," The Surfer's Journal, Volume 13, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2004. Photographs from the Smith Family photo album.

• "GEORGE FREETH: Modern Surfing Revivalist,"
  Longboard Magazine, Volume 12, Number 4, May 2004.

• "Legends of The HotCurl," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2003.
  
  
  

• "DORA," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2002.
  
  
  

• "The Malibu Board," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, ©2002.
  
  
  

• TOM BLAKE: The Journey of a Pioneer Waterman
  by Gary Lynch, Malcolm Gault-Williams and et al., ©2001.
  
  
  

• "TOMMY ZAHN: For The Pure Joy of It All," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, ©2000.
  
  
  

• "Pulling Seaward: Tommy Zahn," The Surfer's Journal, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2000. Co-authored with Gary Lynch.
  
  
  

Surf Writings - 1990s

• "Last Chapter: 'Tarzan' Smith," The
  Surfer's Journal, Volume 7, Number 4, Winter 1998.


• "Doc Ball, Through the Master's Eye," Longboard Magazine, Volume 6, Number 4, August 1998.


• "Surf Drunk: The Wally Froiseth Story," The Surfer's Journal, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1997.


• "Fran Heath: The Forgotten Hot Curler," Longboard Magazine, Volume 5, Number 1, March/April 1997.


• "Woody Brown: Pilot, Surfer, Sailor," The Surfer's Journal, Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 1996.


• "Early California Surfriders," Surfing Magazine, Volume 32, Number 10, October 1996.


• "Surfin' Da Net," Surfing Magazine, Volume 32, Number 3, March 1996.


• "Tom Blake and the Hollows," Longboard Quarterly, Volume 3, Number 3, Aug./Sep. 1995.


• "Old School Stash," Surfing Magazine, Volume 31, Number 7, July 1995.


• "Mo`ikeha at Maka`iwa," Kauai Magazine, Kaua`i, H & S Publishing, Kapa`a, Kaua`i, Hawai`i, Spring 1995.
  
  
  

Political Writings

• DON'T BANK ON AMERIKA: The History of the Isla Vista Riots of 1970, a.k.a. Sunshine Revolutionaries, self-published, Third Printing; ©1987, 2000, 2004.
  
  

• "Makin' Bacon," The Journal of College Radio, Volume 25, No. 1, published by the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS), Vails Gate, NY. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the indecency standards, November 1991.

• "FUNU -- Liberation War -- Continues in East Timor," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, now known as Critical Asian Studies, December 1990.

• "Strangers In Their Own Land," Cultural Survival, Cambridge, MA, December 1990.

• "The Isla Vista Riots I, II & III," Isla Vista: A Citizen's History from an Indian Village to the 1990s, Isla Vista, CA, February 1990.

• "Flight To Freedom," Northern Sun News, July 1989.

• "Organisasi Papua Merdeka: The Free Papua Movement Lives," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, now known as Critical Asian Studies, October-December 1987.

• "Indonesia's genocidal invasion of East Timor," Northern Sun News, June 1987.

• "A 100-year Struggle," Third World, April 1987.

• "A History of I.V. I, II & III," Isla Vista Free Press, February 1987. Also February 1988 and 1989.

• "West Papuans fight for independence," Militant, January 1987.

• "Human rights under attack in East Timor," Militant, September 1986.

• "The war nobody's told you about: Indonesia in West Papua," Northern Sun News, November 1986.

• "Ten years of torture and murder hasn't stopped FRETILIN's fight," Guardian, July 1985.

Formal Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Area of study: Business Management, 1985-88; UNIX, 1997; Perl, 1998.
• University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, N.M. Area of study: Business Management, 1990-91.
• Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California; 1970, 1980, 1983-1984.
• University of Corpus Christi (UCC), Corpus Christi, Texas, 1968, 1971-1973; B.A., English, 1973. UCC is now known as Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, a two-year junior college.
• Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1969.
• Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, 1967-1968.
• Smithtown Central High School, St. James, L.I., New York; 1966-1967
• Stamford High School, Stamford, Connecticut, 1964-1966.
• Turn-of-River Junior High, Stamford, Connecticut, 1963-1964
• Locust Valley High School, Locust Valley, L.I., New York, 1961-1963
• Bayville Elementary School, Bayville, L.I., New York, 1954-1961