Walk on Water

by John Geyer

Overview

Walk on Water is a three part look, from the microcosm of surfing, into the schism between the forces of professionalism on the credibility of amateurism that engulfed all culture in the early 1970's.
Part two follows two young friends whose mode of operation can be summed up as Billy with the spirit of a hermit and Jake the archetype pirate. It is a one year slice of life on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii; post-Vietnam for Billy, post escaping Vietnam for Jake. It is framed by part one and part three where in the contemporary world pirate adventurer Jake has been able to escape commitment, responsibility and love by e-booking his travel misadventures through Craig a time warped hippie accountant living in North Beach San Francisco.
Balding with a sixty plus aching body Jake kite surfs into an Indonesian crater where he visits a beer ashram and is given one last chance to make a stand with Osley who's been hiding from the FBI for 30 years.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153116433
Publisher:	John Geyer
Publication date:	07/06/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	552,320
File size:	439 KB

About the Author

Born 1947 in Alhambra California.
1954-60 Lived and surfed Waikiki Hawaii
1660 -64 living surfing California; Corona del Mar HS
1964- '68 Orange Coast College and Long Beach State, All American wrestling
1968 Joined Maui National Guard
1969 - 72 Lived and surfed at Sunset Beach, Hawaii
1972 awkwardly back in the Army; 5th place CISM (military) World Games, Ankara Turkey
1973 to '80 taught PE and Wrestling at Seabury Hall Maui
1980 Final Olympic Trials wrestling Madison Wisconsin
1981- 87 Journalist Wind Surf Magazine and professional competitor
1988 to present moved to Western Australia, Married, surfing, kite surfing