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SPORTS & TOYS
T hey are earning in the for waves to conquer, often at remote “A breed of one-
top one per cent and places and contracting professional percenters is becoming
are the first generation surfers to accompany them. Surfing as addicted to surfing
to have grown up with brings everyone to the same place in as the hippie dude with
home computers and the Internet. the basic human pecking order. Alone straggly hair who thinks
They live in a fast and globally against the elements, it is never the “blue chip” is something
competitive world and their lifestyle same ride twice. It is an addiction you dunk into a bowl of
choices reflect this. where the risk of being pummeled guacamole.”
by waves, pushed under the surface
The so-called one-percenters venerate for long periods of time, being bitten - Town & Country Travel
experience over material possessions by sharks, or slamming one’s body
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surfing, not the Internet, but big waves. by the unique experience of catching
and riding that perfect wave. For these
Whether it’s point-breaks in Hawaii, one-percenters, surfing offers a happy
France, Africa or Spain, one finds balance to their high- speed social-
not only the local beach bums, who media connected lives; a chance to
live to ride the wave. The Millennial disconnect and de-stress.
one-percenters are there too, looking
