“Mark Foo: The Ultimate Thrill,” by Matt Warshaw, ran in the February 1987 issue of SURFER Magazine. This version has been slightly edited.
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It’s a natural inclination for people to categorize, assign labels, simplify. So Mark Foo is now known primarily as a Waimea man. He has a slight problem with this because for every time he rides his 9’1″ at the Bay, he rides his 6’2″ a hundred-and-one-times at blown-out Goat Island. The point is, Mark Foo doesn’t live to surf big waves—he…