Derek Hynd is a surf legend and an inspirational person. Back in 1996 Derek came through with Tom Curren, Pancho Sullivan and Frankie Oberholzer to hang out in Santa Cruz for about a week. We all lived on top of Santa Cruz Surf Shop back then in a big white spanish style building…those were the days! The surf was going off and it was definitely trippy to paddle out with that crew at Pleasure Point. Derek Hynd needed to write the profiles for the top 44 that year so he locked himself in our offices and busted it out in three days. The surf went off all week and those days Santa Cruz was a little more sleepy. If we did that now, people would be hanging out everyday. Below is some footy of Derek surfing a finless board at Supertubes…pass it on and take note…surfing is always progressing.