While the story of grom abuse stretches far back in time, the era of the 80s and 90s provides an interesting point of departure. This was the time that surfing as a subculture and surfing as a sport began to merge, becoming something resembling the thing we know and love today.
Groms got tied to poles, zipped up in their board bags and rolled down hills, bog-washed in public toilets, stripped, shaved (eyebrows,