Learning to Breathe
Learning to Breathe looks at the past and present of 47-year-old professional surfer and drug addict Anthony Ruffo. Anthony is facing prison time in an ever-changing California court system. He has to decide whether to keep going down a path of addiction and crime, or to change his life and start to heal the community he has hurt. Anthony's surfing past, methamphetamine addiction, criminality, and eventual recovery are all shown openly in this book. They talk about how Anthony became famous and then went downhill into addiction and crime. Some of the best surfers in the world are among them. For the first time, they break the rules of silence in the surfing industry and talk about their own addiction problems, as well as the widespread use of drugs in the professional surfing world.
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