In addition to the other two I posted I would have to add the BOOGIE BOARD which Tom Morey invented.
A masterpiece of material technology and design simplicity, it took the world by storm and is still one of the most widely ridden boards anywhere in most any kind of surf.
Many manufacturers have jumped on the bandwagon and a ton of boards of similar design and of similar materials are being made to this day.
Some surfers consider bodyboarder Mike Stewart, holder of 10 world titles, to be the best SURFER (not bodyboarder) in the world. Generically known as Bodyboards, this type of board has been ridden at places such as Pipeline and Waimea Bay.
Good luck with the documentary. If you need an editor, let me know.
On a side note, I’d be interested to see the 10 most influencial boards/shapers on Swaylocks. This site has so many great minds contributing, I think a documentary on them would be great too.
Let's not forget the Stinger by Ben Aipa. I am not sure, but did he also come up with, my favorite shredding tail, the swallow tail?
One of the things he is creating now are the Big Boy Stingers. Plenty of float for bigger or older guys, but a great tail section for turning to go straight up and down a wave.
haaa’’ i see you picked me out as the easy target as far as i can see i made no such comment
you were around while all this was hapining were you
dont belive all you read
“A dozen men in good suits and women in silk dresses will circulate
smoothly among the reporters, spouting confident opinions. They won’t be
just press agents trying to impart a favorable spin to a routine
release. They’ll be the Spin Doctors, senior advisers to the
candidates.”
i'd like to know too. Huie, Bill, or anyone else...
everything i've ever read or seen reported GG blowing everybody away in regards to carving, speed, figure 8's, etc... he showed a generation what was possible on a wave.
if that's not how it was, then enlighten me. please...
also, his fins... seems like every big fin maker makes a variation or copy of one of his fins???
no one uses his fins now-are you serious? look at some of the GG fins offered by the likes of true ames, and others that have copied or made renditions of the fabled greenough fin. his other contributions were materials used as well…not to mention his boat designs which are highly coveted and sought after…
I don’t disagree on the importance of the design or that it has its merits, But a lot of those statements are fluffed up. I have ridden some good quads and I have ridden some good thrusters, each design has its limits.
if you need Greenough validation ask these nobodies Yater,Skip Frye,Richie West,Micheal Cundith,Dennis Benadum, Dan Hazard Dennis Ryder,Chris Brock,Bruce Fowler,Wayne Lynch,Nat Young,Bob Duncan,Jim Richardson the new kid Tomo the list goes on but dont ask George he could care less, dare we say inner most limits of pure fun a vision that many will never see. aloha…
GG was an amazing kneeboarder but where are kneeboarders now? I used to be one and rode a variety of board styles... but those days are gone, mostly, since modern high performance short boards pre-empted almost all the things that made kneeboards viable and attractive.
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Where? Filmed by the Simon Farrer and Chayne and Troy Simpson. Some of these guys push the boundaries of any kind of wave-riding:
sorry, huie… sometimes it’s hard for me to understand who’s saying what to whom. I would never “target” you or anybody. But I will respond directly, at times. If I express a thought, and somebody calls it rubbish, I’d like to know why they think so. I’m still confused by your post that followed Midget’s.
My mind is open (mostly because I think my own ideas are pretty boring!)…
I was a kid… maybe 10 years old at the time… when I started paying attention to surfing. Early memories for me include Nat Young, GG, Gerry Lopez, a few of the old Hawaiian guys… all while I was a couple thousand miles away on the east coast. A few years later I built my first surfboard, while in high school… a short, winged pintail with a long, raked, wooden, glassed-on single fin… influenced by guess who? All of the above!
Hey guys, I have no direct knowledge of the surfboard history and who were the most influencal board makers. I have surfed for over 30 years even though Im not crash hot at it and I have my own thoughts
Correct me if im wrong but these are my thoughts. Waves might have influence shapers more than shapers influenced each other. When the longboards started to be cut down dramitically, a lot of shapers in se queensland would have been influenced by the waves at Noosa, those magincal points, and they started making boards to suit that wave and what they wanted to do on them. Then down in northern nsw there were other waves of course that broke different and those waves influenced those boards. Of course when they meet up they would share ideas and learn of each other and take what they learnt and incorporated it.
During this time a lot of things were happening with boards, it certainly would have been a very excited time to be around as a shaper and a surfer and I almost wish I was.
I know GG was a massive influence, but I believe it might have more so been the enviorement he was in at that time.
Of course i believe people may ridicule this thought but thats fine by me.
I have not included any names apart from GG ( because I was not around at the time and am not a shaper) as I thought and still do he was one hell of allround waterman that was ahead of his time.
Names come to my head but I am not a shaper from way back till still shaping today, but those are the people I would be listening to, and what thoughts they have as they lived through it and are still shaping now
I give credit to all those have contributed in the evolution of the modern surfboard, but I'll just mention one board that to me had a big effect on modern surfing, the McTavish deep vee bottom. Although it was short lived, I think that design really opened up people's minds on what direction surfing could take. The Honolua session featuring McTee and Nat Young documents how far the Aussies had taken surfboard design in the movie "The Fantastic Plastic Machine".