Surfer Magazine Sept. 1970.
I think this is astonishing.
Imagine being a 19 or 20 year old YS III, who is just starting to make a name for himself, from a town that no one has ever heard of, from the gulf, where no one thinks waves even exist.
Here he is listed with the absolute biggest surfing names on the planet, on the cover of the most prestigious surf publication in the world. It is hard to overstate the impact YS had on gulf coast surfing.

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