Greg Liddle Man Or Machine?

Is Greg Liddle an actual person? or a machine? I never saw a picture of him and was wondering if he's an actual person or just a myth?

 

 

exactly right. i agree 100%. i aslo have been in the  shop when a guy came in wanting-what i can't exactly remember-surf related somehow. greg gave him the "go to sears" reply, guy took offense to it.greg calmly explained his was a boardshop, not a surfshop. if the guy wanted decals and wetsuits,etc. he needed to go elsewhere. that was it. the guy understood, said thanks and split.

currently on kpsroundup the header photo is of greg holding the wooden L of Liddle surfboards sign. in addition, there are the last few remaining liddles available for sale for awhile. he will be out of action for a month or so.

 

Which one is the real Greg Liddle?

tonyp- check out liddlesurfboards.com he recently posted some old pictures of himself-something which is very rare for him to do.( never one to seek the limelight or be in the public's eye as it were. definitely an "under the radar" type of guy) the main page is photo of him coming out of a bottom turn.

Had dinner with him one night by accident.  This is the guy who camped for 45 or 90 days(whatever it was back then) so that he could be near his dogs while they were in quarantine on Oahu and so that he and his lovely wife could visit them everyday until their release. 

The quarantine used to be 3 months.

He’s returned emails to me, but I have not met him yet. I’d say that he is definitely a real person.

 

I got back into surfing in 1983. A buddy sent me to see Greg about a longboard. He spent at least an hour asking me questions and chatting about surfing…I don’t think he would have just taken the order had he not spent the time getting to know me some and understand what I wanted…Surfed with him at Malibu some before he moved to Hawaii…

A stellar man for sure!

Rogelio

 

Greg is the real deal. He's not a "surfer". He's a guy that followed his passion and used his brain to develop a shape that will allow him to surf the way he wanted. He takes it all very seriously. When you get one of his boards, it is him through and through. He does everything on every board....quite a claim!

In the last shop he had in Cal., we were in there shootin' the breeze when a lady and her son come walking in and start looking around and asked where all the skate stuff was. He tells her to go across the street to "Sears or something". He was dead serious and not being rude. She thought he was brushing her off but didn't realize his view of surf and board making. That is how he is....straight up. There is no B.S. in him. I've got to respect a guy like that sticking to his guns all these years and all these boards later. I learned how to surf watching him and Bowler.

My take on Greg Liddle is/was that him and his posse are into the displacement hull design surfboards called “stubbies”; there have been numerous articles in surf mags over the years about the boards and the people who build and ride them; read a great one in Surfer Journal called “Gothic Dolphins”, a really entertaining piece about the boards; seems these boards are offshoots of Greenough  spoons in a stand up version complete with round entry bottoms, 50/50 rails and moved up twangy high aspect flex fins; some of the posse swear by these boards and have developed a small cult of dedicated riders…check em out…interesting concept!!!

Yup, a real person, I have been friends with Greg and his family for over 50 years, he is for real.