How could a cocky blond 20-year-old upstart from Australia be about to win the most prestigious surfing competition in the world: the 1978 Banzai Pipeline Masters in ?This gruelling competition takes place in 'one of the most dangerous, snarling tubular masses of water on the planet', which has killed more surfers than all the other surfing spots in the world combined.The Hawaiians, possessive of their own world-beating surfing prowess, did not like what they were seeing. They gawped as the young, fearless Larry Blair won heat after heat, reached the final – and then had the audacity to win the competition, thanks to what he describes as 'the added wiggle, making sure to spend more time in the deepest, nastiest caverns of the tube.'
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