The board of the 1960s was making a comeback in the 1990s. The Oceanside Longboard Surfing Club contest attracted more than 200 competitive surfers. They weren't doing it for the money - prizes only amounted to a few thousand dollars - but for the love of the sport. News 8's Jody Hammond asked surfer Mitch Abshere if longboarding was the old man's way to surf. He said, "no way, you can do everything you can on a shortboard, just on a longboard." His moves proved that. Surfer Suzanne Walker said, "the modern longboards are pretty light and even petite people like me can handle them okay."

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