did anybody else see this?
http://www.surfingthemag.com/pulse/07_01_04_leo/
hmm i still havent had time to digest this information…
I’m not even sure what I think of it… no words other than “well who didnt see this comming” come to mind…
Dora looked good at Malibu and his urban legend is what people seem to be infatuated with. From what I have read the guy was Credit Card thief and Con Man: not something that should be looked up to. On the movie: I hope is does not follow the same pattern as most other hollywood movies when it comes to surfing. Dude…
Dude? dora was not spicoli,dora was you but he got caught…Pee Wee said iT …“i dont need to watch it I lived it”…as James Brolin was panned accross the drive in screen …if there is a god the authenticity will be guarded by a a hard core doraphyle and the entertainment will be for those who respect the dora niche in surfing’s history from the charge of Gard Chapin to his death of cancer contracted from his love of a polluted malibu…ambrose …is that where barbara striesand lives? dora doesn’t
Ambrose,
I used to be as big a Doraphile as you get, until I started watching his film footage closer and reading about his exploits. Sorry he is nothing like me. I am far from perfect, but I learned not to steal as a child. Dora seemed care little for right or wrong. Also on his ability:he seemed to be weak backside to me. Rarely do you see a picture of him going backside. He was beautiful to watch in those early films of malibu and some in Hawaii. No doubt he was one of surfings most interesting characters and unfortunately the type of image surfing companies have been trying to push on the public for 35 years since the invention of the so called surf look. Dora was right on on his views about those types of things. As for the movie. Hollywood has a terrible record when it comes to surf films for those who actually surf.
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Ambrose,
I used to be as big a Doraphile as you get, until I started watching his film footage closer and reading about his exploits. Sorry he is nothing like me. I am far from perfect, but I learned not to steal as a child. Dora seemed care little for right or wrong. Also on his ability:he seemed to be weak backside to me. Rarely do you see a picture of him going backside. He was beautiful to watch in those early films of malibu and some in Hawaii. No doubt he was one of surfings most interesting characters and unfortunately the type of image surfing companies have been trying to push on the public for 35 years since the invention of the so called surf look. Dora was right on on his views about those types of things. As for the movie. Hollywood has a terrible record when it comes to surf films for those who actually surf.
Considering the equipment of the early to mid sixties, I don’t think many people were very good backside. I saw him in his later years at Rincon and he handled himself just fine. His board was more of a midlength longboard outline, riding medium size surf, sitting off by himself waiting patiently. I said good morning once; he looked at me, or through me, and said nothing.
I never saw kevlin surf but dora did the kevlin…dora in realtime was just a man…seeing him surf live he struck me as a little jerky…the stills of that movie sequence of john seversons, " A wave cracks around the point",published once in surfeer with the sequence of dora working 1st point was an iconograph worthy of study-imprint…I am nor wish to be any one other than myself, who ever I am really,this is a life long quest …the moments of brillance in every life are inspiratiional to those who wish a little inspiration …ambrose…the concern with piling on the style in the dora mystique counterpointed with the invested intelect ruminating on the surf topic,and the digression to international intrigue and perhaps the dark side of the force was entertaining from outside the whirlpoolof dora radiance and costly to those who flew too near the flame…no there is no point only the continuum
New Zealand’s best known surf photographer published a magazine piece recently where he trashed Dora and his behaviour in New Zealand. I don’t have an opinion about Dora’s exploits but it bugs me that LM chose to wait until the man died before he started his personal attack. Why didn’t he say it during the decades Mr Dora lived in. Chicken, that’s why. R.S.
Does it really matter what we think? Hollywood will do it’s best to recreate Dora’s life and in the end will butcher it. Opinions are like a**holes everybodies got one. Me, I’ll go watch the movie try to enjoy it but if anything I’ll have fun blasting afterwards. Yeah he was a bastard but a couldn’t imagine not having him around. End note if you haven’t read the Surfers Journal interview with him before he died find it, read it, and gain a new appreciation.
Dora being the maverick wanted by the “federales” seems like the typical kerouac style beatnik of the day… I see Dora on a picture or a movie and my minds starts to play Theloneous Monk… dunno they just seem to belong together… weird eh?
Think they’ll make a movie 'bout Hynson when he goes? That guy seems like the embodiement of igor stravinsky’s music…
wow man… the 1% surfers…
