5 Questions is a new Project on this channel, i like to introduce to you interesting cool characters from the Surfing World! The first episode is with Mr. Larry Mcgraw, i met him on our last Strike Mission to G-Land/Java! Please let me know in the comments if you like to see more of this short documentaries! If you are new on this channel, please SUBSCRIBE and LIKE, so my Mom can be proud! Thank you!

@danodonnell7218

2 жыл бұрын

For sure I love the unsung heros of surfing! Doing it for the love of it!!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

@@danodonnell7218 Thanks a lot man for your feedback! Will try to do more of these short videos too!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

@David haha, yeah, i don't like those ones either really, thanks for the feedback!

@GlennLaguna

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the unsung surfers are really the heart of surfing. We see way too much of the WSA pro surfing. I prefer to hear about a guy like Larry that goes back to G-Land all those years. Great work putting this together 🏄‍♂️

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

@@GlennLaguna Thank you Glenn!!

His lack of ego and strut is so refreshing. No chest puffing bro-bra-ism, just a long and thoughtful love affair with Mother Ocean.

@vickryan

2 жыл бұрын

forkery to the 9th power. LOL.

Inspirational stuff. Most guys when they’re 20 don’t realise 75% of their mates won’t be surfing when they’re 40. A few make it to 65. This guy is the exception. Wow!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for watching Stephen!Glad you are still surfing and beeing the 25%!

@vickryan

2 жыл бұрын

@B D Because of injury. (see my other post on this page) And your question, this question, is spot on. We all need to ask why, why can't I continue surfing.

This guy is responsible for me riding the best wave of my life in 2010 in G land. I was scared to go because it was my first day surfing there. Then he yelled goooooooo! so i decided to go on it, and that was it, an unforgettable backside tube in a 10 foot wave, followed by a very long ride. If he happens to read this comment I just want to say thank you. 🙌🏾🌟💥

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thats an awesome story to hear Felipe, thanks for sharing! I will tell Larry to read the comments! : )

@aaronraines3375

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah Felipe! Nice 1 amigo u have to go go go. Easy to say until ur on the edge of take off at that size

Absolutely love this! Please can you do more?! Locals and Bules! So awesome to hear his advice for staying so young at 72! Keep ripping Larry!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for your feedback Miss Zoë! I am planning to do more 5 QUESTIONS, as I really enjoy doing them!

Exactly, a humble man, no surfer big deal attitude

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Grims for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!

Great advice Larry👍👍👍 I’m hoping to still be at it when I’m 72. I think the paddle fitness routine is right on the money. That’s what I’m noticing is challenging now at 62. Onya Larry 🙏

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you find some motivation listening to Larry! Thanks for watching!

Introduction with beer in hand. Like Larry a lot!

What a legend still at it. Getting lucky with genetics also helps ;p

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, yeah I feel like actually some yoga and stretching might help to stay more fit ,but seems like Larry doesn't need any of it, he is just doing it his way and it works!

First met Larry in the jungle in 08, I was 12 years old. He was an Inspiration to me back then. Present day I see him in the same place every year surfing some of the best waves I've ever surfed, and usually he'll get one of the best waves of the day and ride it to perfection. I always appreciate his advice, very intelligent dude.

@SurfRawFiles

10 ай бұрын

Larry is a legend,thanks for watching!

Nice "swooping", Larry!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching John!

I Met Larry on one of my trips to G-land years ago . I still use his "Afew A grade waves on a grade C day" type of description to this day, aloha Larry.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, thats a good one, he didn't told me this.. Thanks for watching!

Nice job Larry.. He was my dentist for years.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Haha that's awesome Greg! I hope you shared some barrells too!

Jesus....more of this... a true legend, inspirational...

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh thanks man for your feedback!🙏

Congrats Larry ....well done ..so many people your age are unable to do anything like this..

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lee! Yeah it's so cool to see he still surfs every day almost!!

Congratulations to you Larry, and thanks to RawFiles for bringing this great surfer to us all. Fantastic footage of a classic surfer getting the greatest of pleasure from every wave. Do what you love, and love what you do and you may just live forever.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks man! Yeah do what you love love what you do!

@LeileeBaker805

2 жыл бұрын

Supercool😎

Love it. I'm 58 wish I surfed as well as he does. Four years until retirement, then I'll have more time ;)

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Hellyeah, just never stop, even if its once a week or once a month, just go!

This is so refreshing. I'm turning 60 in a few days and I just started surfing a couple of years ago. I'm in a place where I can live anywhere now as long as there is serviceable internet. See you on the waves Larry!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jeff! Thanks for watching! Thats amazing, that you just started surfing, they say it never late! I hope you will find a good wave to settle down next to and enjoy many more years surfing!

Good swooping Larry. Keep it up.

@SurfRawFiles

3 ай бұрын

He is such a Legened! Thanks for watching!

Sage advice from a wise man. Thanks for posting!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching it Rob!

Wow i love this bro. Im early 60's and thank you for profiling an older. Surfer. Indo looks so rightious i want to be there soon. The s w ells are just slamming great e verywhere there. Thanks again SURFS UP🌊🌊🌊💥💥💥😎😎😎🏄🏄🏄🏄

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for watching Rusty! Hope you can get back to Indo!

This was great.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot man, glad you enjoyed it!

Absolutely👍 I want to learn from him.🤞

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Haha hellyeah, was cool to interview him, gives me hope to surf much longer!🤘

Larry is inspirational - chilled and still ripping with a lovely style.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for watching Mr Gonzo!

Legend!!!! Ripping for his age! So laid back and cool

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching man! Was amazing to interview Larry!

Needed this and came at the right time.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Jeff, i am not sure what you mean, but i am really glad if the video helped in any way!

@jeffjenkins1799

2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfRawFiles 58 years old and surfing strong. Short board and longboard. Probably will be working until I am 70. Constantly wondering if I can keep it up. Larry showed me I can 😃

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffjenkins1799 Thats what i though, glad to hear you are still going out!

This guy is my hero. Like the "swoop" style too.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome,thanks for watching Rob!

9 weeks away from retirement @ 65; still surfing & wondering if it is too late; my Indo years were 76 - 79 & 2013 - 2019; Mate! Thanks for the inspiration! So f'n cool!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Sven for watching! So in 9 weeks is there another Indo surftrip coming?

You're my hero brah! I surf five times a week and still love it at 64! Bali bagus!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Hellyeah Dan! Thanks for watching! Keep surfing!

Keep it coming, I love this format! I wanna be like this guy when I get older, for sure. 🤙

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Will try to catch more interesting characters!

A swooper, not a ripper.. as a 67 yr old swooper, my sentiments exactly

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, happy to hear that David! Thanks for watching!🙏

Dr Gigi , shared some epic days at Launching pad with him it was torture seeing him in uncrowded covid lockdown camp almost all of season '21 good on ya Laza.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, thanks for watching!

Wow! So cool! I'm 63 and making a trip to Maui this month. Have been on a board in about 15 years. Very nervous about my return to the water. Feeling better about it now! Very inspiring!🤙

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for wathching Jim, hope you will score Maui!!

Great stuff. He's so right about the paddling ability being the deciding factor, especially at G Land. I'd love to know the dimensions of the board he rides out there.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Sushi! Just ask him via Facebook,his profile URL is in the description! I am sure he will help you,if I remember right he had a 7'6 or an 8 that day we filmed (yellow board).

Aloha Larry! I'm 61, surfing as often as I can (although I passed on 10 foot plus Rolling Stones, Mahia last weekend!) here in NZ. Part of the surfing world, but not the SIC. You're an inspiration - 5 mile paddles --- I will start tomorrow ;)

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot ot for watching! Keep surfing! 🤘💪

God bless this relaxed man.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Martin for watching!🙏🤘

thank you for the inspiration

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot R.G. for watching! Glad you got inspired!

Looking good for 72 bro. Great perspective. Thanks

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for watching Russel! Yeah he is ripping still with 72! So amazing!

Thanks Larry. Almost 52, aching and sore every morning - but inspired. Cheers guys for a really cool project 🤙🏽

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Chris for watching!🙏🤘

love this

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Sasha! Glad you enjoyed it!

Much respect Larry. I’m 59 and still riding short boards under 7’ at 103kg and a 7’2 seaside and beyond… staying fit is a big challenge. I should find a paddling routine like yours. Thanks for your humble inspiration 🙏🤙🏽

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for watching! Glad you got some inspiration!🤘🤘

@klaiejah

2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfRawFiles Haha thanks… hope your channel and project prosper 💪🏽

I also remember him speaking in native language with the locals

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

And yeah, he speaks perfect Bahasa Indonesia!

This was awesome👍👍🤙

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it!

Go hard Larry. Dig what you had to say!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nick for watching!🙏

Thank you

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Wrx!🙏

what a legend!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Kristian!

OH SURF DOG......BLESSING TO YOU .......I AM 73 AND CANNOT SURF IN THE FREEZEING CALIF WATER AND POOR SURF.......SEE YOU SOON BRO..A GREAT WAVE IS EASY TO SURF...BLESSS US ALL.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Freezing water can be though with older age, respect Tom!

My hero

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew for watching!

thanku from the middleys way to go bro!!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

Quadruple bypass and crowds knocked me out of the water but I live in SoCal.

Great video!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for watching Matthew!

Legend

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Grant for watching!

Go Larry! Want more.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot James! Will def do more!

Legend!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for watching Jeffrey!🙏

There's several over 70 surfers where I live...but none of them would surf waves that big and definitely wouldn't dare to pull into the barrel.

Inspired .thanks

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Brett! Glad you enjoyed it!🙏🤘

Good man Larry!

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏

At 62 disk compression has made it impossible to surf but last year spent time in New Zealand surfing and the year before South Africa and JBay. The Mentewais in the 90's was pretty special. Surf as long as you can.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

🤘🤘 Thanks for watching and your story, hopefully you can still Surf one day!

Beautiful Ride

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks JD for watching!🙏

@LA-qz5hz

2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfRawFiles you betcha I just bought some property there and I can't wait to get back.

Love this video. That is inspiring. My main comment is this, he says the hardest part is (the thing that limits you, the limiting factor) is paddling back out. I fully agree. Too much paddling is how I tore a muscle in my back. So now in my 40s I am forced to quit surfing. So it's not about AGE, it is about INJURY. That is the key issue. So, he says he paddles for 4-5 miles, to strengthen himself. But too much paddling is what injured my back muscle. So be careful!!! I think that is my msg here. Don't over-do it.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ryan for watching, I hope you can get back to the water soon!

@vickryan

2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfRawFiles thank you guys. One guy told me to hit the swimming pool, for my rehabilitation. I am not doing that. Currently i am doing weight lifting to strengthen my back. Feeling better! It's working. (also daily jogging about 1/2 mile only)

Inspiring, I’d like to how he goes about duck diving the sets, my biggest problem in duck diving when gets bigger especially with the bigger boats

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Luk for watching! I don't think he duckdives, he just make a clever wave selection!

Good story. Keep it up. I'm 56 and still rip the top off em. I stretch my shoulders by hanging and surf 4 days a week. Practice makes perfect.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for your feedback Riku! Amazing to hear you still go for a surf so often!

Very cool vid ! I love his honesty saying; "I don't rip, I swoop" ! LoL . . . mate, if your still surfing g-land at 72 - ya doin it right ! - . . . Like you, I surfed it in '87 also (August), but only for 1 week. It was good/great, but there's just as good if not better elsewhere ! & I haven't been back to G-Land even tho I went back to Java in '03... ( In '87 I left AUS to explore the world for 6 months at 23yrs old, but that soon became an 18 month circle of the globe once I learned to live cheaply, LoL . ... . . There's some damn fine waves around/on this planet ! . . . Go fuckin' get 'em guys !! ... I did.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Wow must have been amazing and empty in 87!

Paradise 😱🔥🤙🤙

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏

This is an example of a boomer who took full advantage of the opportunities given to him.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

🤘🤘

Impressive.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Clark!!🙏

legend

@SurfRawFiles

3 ай бұрын

Larry is such a legend! Thanks for watching!

Respect

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dennis for watching!🙏

If you rode as many waves or scored as many heli trips as Larry has - you'd see no point in boasting about it either.

Anyone know of the chicken place he is talking about? I would like to try it 😁

How luck are you. I surfed from age 10 to my early 50s then the arthritis set in. Had both hips replaced at age 57 and tried to get back to it but had lost all my upper body strength. I’m still grieving the loss.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Sorry to hear you are injured! Hopefully you can still get back to it!

This guy clearly has life figured out.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks guys for watching!🙏🤘

In what month do the best waves in g-land occur?

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Its mostly dry season, so May-September/October

This guys RIPS on a snowboard. He rides tree lines in deep powder far better then most ! …..and can lay down a hard boot carving session better then most 30 year olds. Although his cooking is crap…… ok, its acceptable !

@SurfRawFiles

Жыл бұрын

Haha glad you could enjoy Larry's crew for a snowtrip!must have been fun!

Is it possible to start to surf at so late age 45+ for example?

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Sure man,it's never late! My friend started surfing 3 years ago with the age of 46 and now he surfs uluwatu

@gaklapo5462

2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfRawFiles ok thanks a lot 👍

Where do you stay in Gland for 5 months!?

How is he able to stay in Indo for so long? Visas are only good for three months

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

That's just not true, b211 visas are good for 5 months, kitas are good for 2 years.

a black cotton shirt in the tropics?

I met this guy in 1987 at G-Land. I spent two week in June and two weeks in July there in 1987. Bobby had a deal back then if you bought 3 weeks he gave you a 4th week free. I think the cost for those 4 weeks was only $300, I forget, I know it was not more than $400. I went to Indo five seasons in all but never went back to G-Land after that trip. I found Hu'u before that and kept going back there. Lakey Peak with no one out back then pretty much. The locals did not surf back then, and Hu'u was relatively unknown and uncrowded compared to what I experienced at G-Land that season.

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this story Glenn! 400 bucks is so cheap! I am wondering what's was the worth of 400 dollar back in the 80's, what was a monthly paycheck back than?

@GlennLaguna

2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfRawFiles Back then it seemed crowded and competitive out in the water for my liking. The total number of guys on the point fluctuated between 20 and I think probably 80 during my last week(s) in June. And during my last week there I remember it seemed all 80 out in the water at the same time, spread out of course. There were two camps Bobby’s and JoJos and no road into the camp, only boating in from across the bay. Two questions… Is there a road all the way into the camps these days? And, how much is a weeks stay?

@SurfRawFiles

2 жыл бұрын

@@GlennLaguna Yes ,nowdays you can go with the boat from Bali/kuta reef , we stayed 4-5 days for 450us all inclusive at bobby's. There is also a way to go on the road from Bali with Ferry and driving,which is cheaper but longer. I think there are accoms now also for 20-30 us per day (without meal)..

Aka..... The mole?

@larrymcgraw3731

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

Men