NICKY WOOD'S SMOKE-FILLED MELANCHOLY

There wasn’t much to figure out about Nicky Wood’s surfing, which was fast and spidery and entertaining. As a person, though, Wood was a mystery. Quiet. Detached. Cool, for sure, but a little strange. I think it was Derek Hynd who nicknamed him “The Phantom,” and us World Tour punters of the ’80s and early ’90s, in a pre-social-media age, were left to wonder: Is Nicky shy? Simple? Mute? The new Mi...

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