“This is where it all started,” says Rizal Tandjung, gazing out over a sandy shoreline lapped by dying breakers. Almost 40 years old, Tandjung is one of Bali’s surfing pioneers. Picking up his first ...

"Indonesians believe that the ocean is very, very dangerous and the sea god is going to take you away," says Bali surfing pioneer Rizal Tandjung (pictured here) of why the locals were slow to join the ...

Rizal Tanjung has helped define surfing in Bali, and Indonesia. I caught up with him to talk about his Momentum Generation chat group, Gerry Lopez as a coach, and his 1995 cover shot heard around the ...