BL, 88 World Champ, still smiling. Photo: Joli
Barton Lynch was kind of a lankier, more charismatic version of Hardman, from a decade when goofies won world titles. An intelligent, articulate advocate of pro wave riding, BL was and is the kind of World Champ who you could spark up a chat with and relate to. Not a freakish, deviant talent, not a moody, introvert genius, just kind of like you in a good mood, but better at surfing. His ASP world title in 1988, won at bone-crunching Pipe sees him go down in the history books, rather than just a top bloke with skinny legs and an easy grin.
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