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after fighting the good fight. Born in 1958, Dane was raised in Honolulu and his dad
It’s a “stalling” technique to get deeper in the tube: With your back to the wave, you crouch low in a drop-knee stance from takeoff with one hand on the outside rail while the other hand drags behind. Dane improved on 1977 W\ world surfing champion Shaun Tomson’s tube-riding breakthroughs and, by the late ’70s, had become the
ing the barrel of the wave. But Dane didn’t just go left atPipe—farfromit—he absolutely ruled “backdoor” in the ’80s. No one had his power, confidence and un- derstanding of the wave. Yes, he’s a Pipe Master (winning
Dane is a Hawaiian trea-
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was 100% Hawaiian.
Dane was a rare and beau-
Hawaiian was an absolute master — so Zen-like that he helped create and perfect (with Michael Ho and Johnny Boy Gomes) one of surfing’s most functional backside-tube stances: the Pig-Dog.
world’s best tube rider.
The Pig-Dog is still the premier tube-riding stance. It altered the perception that the best tube rides had to be fac-
back in 1976, he immediate-
ly became one of my favorite surfers — absolute raw power
and foot-to-the-floor attitude.
No close-together ballerina
feet softness, but a powerful
and beautiful, classically pure Hawaiian style, charting back
to the great Eddie Aikau. At
the dawn of pro surfing and
the start of the twin-fin era,
at the Stubbies event in Aus- tralia, I watched Dane catch
a wave at high tide, two-foot Burleigh Heads. There was barely enough clearance be- tween his twin fins and the rocks as he leapt to his feet Y and started to pump down L
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T he world lost surfing legend Dane Kealoha to cancer on May 10. He was only 64 years old. His family says he died peacefully
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