I am constantly getting requests to write about the late Mickey Dora, also known as “The Black Knight” of surfing. I have written about him before, but it was mostly many years ago and probably most ...

Mickey Chapin Dora (1936-2002 ) Miklos S. Dora III, Miki Dora, MSD III. The names are many, and so are the facets of the man they call “Da Cat.” Mickey Dora is surfing’s Black Knight, the consummate ...

He was one of California’s most reclusive surfers, but for one day in 1962, he was right where photographer Hank Cillian wanted him ? in his camera lens. His name was Mickey Dora, one of California’s ...

If you took James Dean's cool, Muhammad Ali's poetics, Harry Houdini's slipperiness, James Bond's jet-setting, George Carlin's irony and Kwai Chang Caine's Zen, and rolled them into one man with a ...

You might say Wes Brown was born into this. Actually, there’s no other way to say it. His grandfather was none other than Bruce Brown, the All-Time Grand Poobah of Surf Cinema. His father, Dana Brown, ...

With a general aversion to the general public, Phil Edwards is relatively tight lipped when it comes to sharing surf stories. But he’s got them in spades. “The Guayule Kid” as they called him when he ...