Old guy that jus’ can’t forget…
“Eh how you ride these spears”?
BK got the spotlight and yeah he earned it…
Eddie, Clyde and Tiger?
This is just too nice, had to post.
I like it Matt. Gotta move your feet a bit. Know when to power it and when to finese it. Mike
Roger hinds told me that country he shaped for tiger (the one he’s holding) was something like 16.5 at the wide point. Haha
much mahalo
good da kine memories
of eating matsumoto’s red ben and ice cream shave ice before checking out country surfboards and making the long drive home over the hump back to the sugarcane fields of ewa.
starting off in th elate 60’s early 70’s when BK, Tiger, and Hakman were kings, that’s exactly how my brother and I surf till this day no matter what or where we surf. Just one of those things you don’t get out of your system I guess and maybe why so many of our generation migrate back to high performance longboards.
Never did get the whole squash bug wiggle wiggle butt thruster technique(which I believe was a result of the sting movement) as it doesn’t seem to have anything about glide, trim, flow, big drops and the big bottom turn. Today its more about muscling nature than understanding it enough to flow with in unless your board length forces you too.
BK, Tiger, Paul Strauch and Joey Cabell among others will always be my style heroes no matter how much surfing changes.
mahalo and aloha
Oneula, You got some of the best stylist to emulate. BK was my surf hero. Just before I was drafted the ultra narrow spears made it to the east coast. If there was ever a board so miss matched for east coast waves it was those narrow pin tails. Yet we had to have them. i recall riding a 17" wide Rick Surfboard with a very long drewn out pintail. A Board well suited for that time if Sunset Beach where the place. Also it would have to be piloted by an Island waterman and not a skinny ass punk from New Jersey. By The time I got out of the Army a lot of things had changed in Boards. I moved to The San Diego area in January1972.
Beautifully said Oneula. Too bad it went from going with nature to one of competing with and commercializing it. I can watch a dozen drawn out turns in a row, but a snap turn gets old on the second one like the videos of today. Guess it is a matter of viewpoint. We used to, and still do it simply for the fun or escape of it. Now it is a means of capitalizing and making a living off of it. Seems a shame to pimp out Mother Nature like that. Mattwho, thanks heaps for posting that. Aloooooha!
Good man
Worth remembering
