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Surf site, Sunset Beach, Oʻahu. At the west end of the ʻEhukai Beach Park sandbar. During the early 1970s, when most surfers were changing from longboards to shortboards, one surfer who lived nearby continued to surf here with an old longboard. One day during a bad wipeout his board struck him in the mouth and he lost his front teeth, exposing his gums. He had dentures made and continued to surf there, but had another similar wipeout and lost his dentures. From then on the regular surfers in the area called the site "Gums" to commemorate his misadventures.