Think Cali holds the monopoly on surfing in the continental US? Kook, please.
“California surfing is garbage,” says Peter Panagiotis, pointing to the Golden State’s hyper-crowded waters and beaches with their overly rude surfer dude ‘tudes.
His aka is Peter Pan — a sobriquet very apt for the young-at-heart 75-year-old, who started at 13, and is still shredding the breakers of Narragansett, RI, just 30 miles due south of Providence, like a wave-wizarding wunderkind.
He has similar shivving shares on Hawaii, Huntington Beach, Florida, even France, having been around a tad. He also believes making surfing an Olympic sport was the wrong move. “It seems less cool, same with snowboarding and skateboarding.”…