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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The International Ski Jumping championships at Innsbruck, Austria, and the International Surfing championships at Makaha Beach, Hawaii...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 pm.) The Grand Prix of Monaco from Monte Carlo, and the Tandem Event of the International Surfing Championships from Makaha Beach, Hawaii...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The World Two-Man Bobsled Championships from St. Moritz and the International Surfing Championships from Makaha Beach, Hawaii...
...Sydney's Neilson Park, zipping through shark nets so ragged that they no longer stop sharks, only surfers. At Huntington Beach, Calif., the gasser is "pier shooting" - hurtling between the concrete pilings of a pier. But these pastimes are only makeshift substitutes for riding the "heavies" off Makaha, a lonely beach on the west coast of Oahu that is every surfer's idea of paradise...
...giant waves that pound Makaha are spawned by violent Pacific storms, often 2,000 miles or more from Hawaii. On a really big day they may top 25 ft. Even the 15-footers provide a hair-raising test as they come rumbling over the reef. But there are days when Makaha is no wilder than Waikiki-as 441 contestants from as far away as Peru and South Africa found out when they converged on Makaha for the International Surfing Championships, the World Series of the sport. For five days anxious surfers vainly scanned the horizon: Finally, on the day before...