I looked at the prayer flags. The wind blowing from the mountains flicked them gently. ‘You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,’* I said to myself.
Interviews
Wayne Deane sat for this interview with me in 2006. We were working together a bit then: he was glassing, sanding, and making the fins for a small run of surfboards I'd shaped for customers that featured Mark Sutherland's ‘Dream’ artwork.
I’d like to dedicate this post to my mate, Kirk Gee, who first published this material. A true believer. Rest in Peace, brother. — Andrew Kidman
Back in 2021, Black Hole Transmissions correspondent Derek Hynd launched Hyndline. HyndLine was to be a series of 30 hand-shaped board models — or codes — representing 30 years of Hynd’s surfing progression from 1973-2003. 10 boards being shaped per code.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cheyne Horan garnered acclaim as the messiah of a 'New Surfing' in a feature article by SURFING Magazine. Andrew Kidman engages in a rare interview with surfing visionary Cheyne Horan about surfing's evolution.