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Surf contests going virtual? Costa Mesa-based Vans is for its famed Triple Crown of Surfing – Orange County Register
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In public rebuke of strong-arm World Surf League tactics, popular shoe brand Vans announces professional longboard event headlined by suspended current champion Joel Tudor!
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Why did Surf Ranch fail, as wave pool tech and as a contest, so spectacularly? “A dull ache of unrealised desire at the deathless sight of that impossibly perfect wave”
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Surf Ranch-lit: “Great surfing is about finding a line through chaos and watching great moments in surf comps is bearing witness to that pursuit!”
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