Miki Dora was the first king of Malibu. Like James Dean on a surfboard, he was dark and movie-star handsome, he had a dangerous, surly presence, and he surfed like no one else. Mickey Dora defined California Cool. His nickname? Da Cat. Dora developed into “the angry young man of surfing”, a moniker given to him by the LA media. In protest against the influx of surfers to Malibu in the late ‘60s, he wrote a long, fuming piece for the LA Free Press in which he condemned “kooks of all colors, finks, ego heroes, Amen groupies and football-punchy Valley swingers”.

In one of his most famous exploits, Dora entered the 1967 Malibu Invitational–a contest that, given his previous convictions, should have been one that Dora would want no part of. In the semis, he mooned the judges and took off, leaving the beach and a story that would cement his reputation as a contest-hater.

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