best Swaylock’s thread yet…
kirk
Sitting here browsing thru swaylocks, Free Ride playing on the VCR. Just took notice that the groundbreaking winter of '75/76, where the Aussies and South Africans busted down the door was almost THIRTY years ago…my how time flies! Definitely a turning point in modern surfing history.
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Sitting here browsing thru swaylocks, Free Ride playing on the VCR. Just took notice that the groundbreaking winter of '75/76, where the Aussies and South Africans busted down the door was almost THIRTY years ago…my how time flies! Definitely a turning point in modern surfing history.
amen ! preach it brother…
‘Buttons’ cutting sick…
Saw some old movie this summer in Dr.Dings shops in Hanapepe during the Friday night art walk. Buttons, a little slow in the cut back/snaps compared to what I remembered, but, and this is the big but, he was getting so many sick, perfect barrels. Didn’t catch the name, but it took me back and stoked me up. And style, does anyone talk about style any more? Style up the ying yang. Peace, and thanks for the pics too - Taylor
it may have been ‘quiver’ , Taylor…not that old a movie…shows him at good whomping ‘T.O.S.’ with Stephen Slater and some other mal riders, going off as Buttons can !
ben
Mark Liddell…
Could have been “Many Classic Moments” maybe?
Louie Ferreira …
Larry and Louie…
Louie nearly decapitates poor Warren Bolster…
What a flash back. Button’s, Mark and I did some home movies during the 70’s at the pipe. I would love to find some of those tapes. Anway, I ran into him at Sunset beach a few months ago still doing his thing.
Thank you for sharing the pic’s
JohnF
You’re WELCOME !!
(I’d LOVE to see that footage !! IF you still have it!)
I hope this can be an ongoing thread, as others and myself scour and scan the old shots…
ben
Larry, switchfoot in california, makes the cover of Australian Surfing World magazine [as does Warren Bolster]
Wish I kept all of those old magazines you have. Great shots good memory’s. Damm 30 + years ago I’m getting old… Seems like yesterday.
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Larry, switchfoot in california, makes the cover of Australian Surfing World magazine [as does Warren Bolster]
…and the inside , too [same issue, ‘Blacks’]
… HE does !!
‘Big Ben Aipa’ …and so does his son now, I read [ ‘Akila’, yeah ?]
THE board and surfer who apparently influenced Mark Richards to re-explore the twin fin in 1976…
Reno Abellira :-
Elder statesman BK, no one like him before or after…
B.K.
now we’re talkin’
In the late 60s/early 70s I thought Jeff Hakman drew the cleanest lines at Honolua and Sunset.
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In the late 60s/early 70s I thought Jeff Hakman drew the cleanest lines at Honolua and Sunset.
ironic the other lines he was doing to his body…thank god for his wife helping him through. The ’ Mr. Sunset’ book should be a compulsory read for ALL surfers , I reckon…as with the ‘M.P.’ book…some warnings there, for sure ! Drugs have destroyed so many surfers careers and lives over the years.
ben
drug