Just have a look… 1963, it says.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=6228857
bad ass
Who says kicking doesn’t help? That guy’s only about 10 years ahead of his time.
Wow !!!
That’s awesome !!!
so cool!!!
hanging heels on a 3’ disc of plywood. I wish i could do that on my 10’ noserider…
Jeez, that guy is my HERO!
thanks for posting Balsa
and thank you to Mr. Solomonson
This amply demonstrates that much of what is seriously discussed in this forum … thickness, rocker, materials, rails… is utter and complete horse shit. You just have to know how to surf. Hell, you just have to go surf.
That’s amazing -!
Love the hawaiian song too…love the bits where English crops up…eg “hawaiian hotel” in the middle of the stream of hawaiian.
it has been on the forum before. Shows that you don’t need as much volume as a lot of people on here claim. and he isn’t surfing the waves so well( he isn’t beating the lip or doing sweeping powerful cutbacks) that he wouldn’t benefit from a lot of design elements discussed here
This guy is my new hero! I am going to make a board like that and give it a shot. Do you think it would be cheating if I made the width something that would match my Duckfeet? What would that make it, a stand-up kneeboard? A SUK? Otherwise I am going to have a hell of a time paddling in in my hooded 6/5/4, booties, gloves, doc’s plugs etc…
Thanks for the link, Balsa.
Hope you have been getting some good surf. How was this fall? Winter? Any good days at Gue…? I got a fluke swell when I visited the August before last when we spent the month camping out in our van in the parking lot next to the Cult house above the break. The poor rich woman who lived in the house was not happy. Sorry about that.
I have to say that on a good day you live in what many would consider paradise! I checked around for you in the lineup but didn’t see any great enough looking boards for it to be you.
On the first day of the swell there were only five of us including the lifeguard, riding stand-up on his red plastic paddle board. On the second day, I was alone among a field of guns on a very wide, bright yellow, square tailed, four-finned six-footer without a leash. That was exciting. Talk about getting swatted into late drops!
I just got back from two weeks of fun waves in Hawaii with a chambered spruce 6’3 five-finned bonzer inspiree and I am still thinking about that swell in your backyard. What a great place!
Sorry for changing the subject. I couldn’t help it.
Thanks again,
Lars
Balsa, can’t believe I almost missed that thread. Very very cool. Watched it once without the sound and thought “cool”. The saw there was sound and watched again with. So, so much better. What a delight. Had to watch again. Loved it when he got by the wall. 1963. Amazing. Style.
Hi Lars, glad you enjoyed your stay. Why didn’t you try and get in touch? I have had quite a bit of work and couldn’t hit the water as much as I would have liked to… A few sessions with the kids at Bidart or Cenitz, but no Parlementia to speak of…
Things have been changing somewhat lately:
This was taken on January 4, Belharra. The surfer is Vincent LARTIZIEN. Some of you guys in Hawaii may know him…
As for your camping site, I guess that’s what you were talking about?:
Yeah, there are worst places on Earth, I’m sure…