It’s now been nine years since Alliance fora Living Ocean ran its first Longboard Classic. The first mission was fundraising. It gets expensive being an advocate for clean coastal waters. The second mission was to not only celebrate surfing’s history through boards from the 1960s but specifically LBI’s surfing history, bringing together the contemporary surf scene with the waveriders who had helped create the local surfing scene.

“Honestly, I’m damn proud of the way the younger generation has embraced this contest.