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 ...

As one of the most enigmatic, iconic, and potentially problematic surfers to ever ride waves, Miki Dora, and the stories about him, are the stuff of legend. He was one of the best surfers in the ‘50s ...

In this vivid biography, Rensin (The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up) takes on a daunting task: to clarify the clouded myth of legendary surfer Miki Dora. Growing up in post-WWII ...

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 ...

This 2006 documentary follows three California surfer/shapers as they attempt to realize the final fantasy of the late Miki Dora, the iconic and enigmatic “Black Knight of Surfing” who passed away in ...

Steven Kotler is the author of "West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief." Miki DORA has been called many things: “Kerouac in board shorts” (the London Times); “a deconstructor of ...

All that would have made Miki Dora just another small-time crook with a penchant for traveling the world on forged credit cards and passports had he not also been the greatest surfer to ride a wave ...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way banner has optioned feature rights to “All for a Few Perfect Waves,” David Rensin’s upcoming bio of surfer Miki Dora, with DiCaprio eyeing the central role. “High ...