Great video..These guys were some of my idols growing up surfing from the 70's. Cheyne surfing with no wetsuit..Legend.

Great footage from back in the day. It sucks we all get old, make the most of your youth as it really does go in the blink of an eye.

@spikerd808

4 жыл бұрын

I.Miss surfing Honolua ..

@colleenmoore9920

3 жыл бұрын

100%

@paddington3028

Жыл бұрын

Very true

PT is a joy to watch, he's absolutely ripping! Amazing bottom turns, his style is powerful, fluid and clean: looks like he's riding a modern thruster in a nowadays WSL competition but with more flow. His and Lynch's approach to the wave was so ahead of their time, they were already drawing modern vertical lines. They influenced surfing so much and set the standard for the years to come. Thanks for uploading this gem.

It’s great surfing from that period, late single fin era, Wayne lynch goof surfing was great

The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a good choice of music to play to this. It's retro and goes well with these shredders.

The shapes from this period just provided the sickest style, just watch the lines being carved & complete command of all areas of the wave, not to mention the buckets being thrown from those power turns!!

@howardacquistapace2782

2 жыл бұрын

Super slow waves mushy too

@phil.s2245

Жыл бұрын

Yep, the style from that era was very pleasing to watch. Bells providing a great wave face for turns. Waiting to see some footage of howards sessions.

@joaomateus6071

Жыл бұрын

One year later simon anderson introduces the thruster and completely changes the game. Its cool to see how much the three different fin setups work

1981-83 There was a Bleach blonde dude that was local at Pismo pier. He seemed to own the place. One of my favorite places.

PT and MR were absolutely styling!

I forgot how much I liked seeing footage of PT surfing. He was really good.

@showze21

Ай бұрын

He got a lot of acceleration out of his turns

This is the 1979 Bells contest. I have black & white stills from this comp. Amazing to see them in motion!!!

@Chris-vq5vr

5 жыл бұрын

Post them!!!

BJT massacre and classic Aussie gliding surf doesn't get better then this. Nice upload!

Ripping. Those turns on Steve Jones' 1st wave!!

these guys are fucking ripping it all! their style is timeless... i would love to see them surfing today.

Sick figure 8 Lynch did!💥 🙀👍👍

Surfing has come a long way but that said it's nice to see the ease and grace of these old styles as opposed to the raw shredding power of today.

@Chris-vq5vr

5 жыл бұрын

You call today’s surfing ‘power’??? Wtf

@hughmckendrick3018

4 жыл бұрын

Todays surfing has its strong points but all that aerial stuff gets boring very quickly.

PT does not get enough credit. he is ripping and probably the best guy out there...

@Chris-vq5vr

5 жыл бұрын

MR brother

@PaulOReilly712

Жыл бұрын

PT was on the WSL podcast with Dave Proden ( Check it) but from his insights into competition surfing he may be the best competition suffer mentally ever.

Loved this. I remember vividly watching Mark Richards surf Tuncurry/Forster bar on huge south swells. This majestic, long wave that Mark would carve. Ahhh such wonderful memories.. Australia, where are you?

great footage paired with a great sound!

great video, new sub. my first board was a MR twin fin, that was 82-83

@caseyhansen4567

10 ай бұрын

Me too 1979 gorden and smith made them here in California

Legends

LMAO at 3:28:00 Mark Warren 'Hanged Five" man... For you newbies, He put his foot at the front of his board, at the nose. It was the ''thing' back in the days with longboards! I'm sure you have heard of Hang Ten? Both feet at front of board!.. Warren just 'Hanged Five'; in '79!

Beautiful

That cut back at 1:18....The absolute glory of the wounded gull!!

1:18 nice MR cuttie. Wayne Lynch so on rail - the greatest. Young Cheyne - very MP style.

@Chris-vq5vr

5 жыл бұрын

What a cutback

Good hotdog wave. Winkipop up the street though...🤑

Wow, it's crazy how much surfing has progressed in the past 40 years. Imagine what surfing will look like in 2060!

@HKSlays

4 жыл бұрын

I was sitting here thinking to myself, "back in the day, all of this looks so radical." Progression, indeed.

@phoarey

4 жыл бұрын

Yes but music has gone that far backward.

SURF LEGENDS

How good is MR 🤙🏽🏄‍♂️

Very good

Awesome!

Soul.

Nice session!

No one surf's like this anymore. Must be the old shapes. The tails might have been a bit looser. Not as much pure speed, but those turns were so full of style!

I was at this contest. Carried Margo Obergs board over the rocks for her. Seems so slow nowadays but There were so many great surfers there. Where does the time go?

Rabbit had a nice looking swooping cutty

Great surfing, style plus, of the same styles they all have today

PT . the stunt double for the actor in big Wednesday. Who was the star for the show called the greatest American hero. I forget his name.

Cuál es el grupo de musica y la canción!!.Incredible video and feeling.Thanks mates:) Josh since Galicia-Pantín-Spain

That's not 3 years ago, that's 35 to 40 years ago on single fin boards, way before WSL crap took over. It was an evolutionary time in surfing which eventually exploded with Simon Anderson's 3 fin thruster, he was the architect of the most advanced surfing equipment in use today, god bless him. 🏄

Those turns look like pleasure turns

3:28 That nose ride 😆🤣🤣😃

Awesome

MR flapping like the gull he is. He knew it all along . The twin was the best and now it's the most common board almost being used now. In the 90s nobody was riding all these retro fish type named boards. Sure some of you were using them but not the mainstream.

the beggining....

Reckon PT won that one, but Wayne Lynch had a couple of great cutbacks.

Would have been interesting to see those guys surfing on modern equipment back then. Those big old single fins really were awful to ride. Not taking anything away from them though, they were ripping for sure.

Where's MP

TC 👍

whats the first song in this video?

@gusgould4420

5 жыл бұрын

anemone

Hey Ramadook. Any ideas of how to get permission to use this footage. Or how to contact Ross Myers? I'm working on a little project and would love to use some of the footage. Thanks for your help pal.

@ramdarook

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for your email. You can contact me at ramdarook@tpg.com.au & give me a few details on how you wanted to use the footage. Thanks, Ross Myers

@Lukelegs

5 жыл бұрын

Great. Thanks for the reply Ross. I have shot you an email.

How height is MIKE Richards?

GOD

I like seeing the wave get respect....rathering than cutting the beauty out of it ...style not gymnastics and ariel stuff ..

@topstar443

5 жыл бұрын

Thing about waves, you can`t hurt their feelings, if you really really respected them you wouldn`t surf them at all, the reason they were not doing ariels was those single fin logs sucked, and if you could time travel with a current board, Rabbitt would have jumped on as quik as he would have any undaged surf groupie

@cheynewilson5951

5 жыл бұрын

Top Star those boards didn’t suck at all actually. That’s why most of the alternative craft we ride today is still redesigned from these shapes. And MR was riding a Twinnie

Is this pre-thruster Bells? Looks like mostly twin fins & single fins

@fernandomaron87

6 жыл бұрын

Single fins for sure

@freesoul3371

6 жыл бұрын

Yes 79/80 this is pre thruster and mostly single fin pintails or swallowtails, stingers. There were twin fins but at that time they weren't really that popular. Thrusters came out early 80's maybe 82/83ish?

@marcelboogaard5449

5 жыл бұрын

Dfin glide Richards is definitely riding a twin fin. He came up with the idea. Met him in ‘92 in his shop in Newcastle. Top bloke

@jonathanbouic5947

5 жыл бұрын

Thrusters were introduced by simon anderson in 81 at bells.

@johnbasiglone1219

5 жыл бұрын

@@freesoul3371 You are right on with the dates of the thruster's arrival on scene. I had single fin pin, swallows and stingers and had a twin fin, swallow tail that was a copy of a Clyde Beatty Rocketfish. All of those boards were pre-1982. Then around 1982 the Thruster arrived and I never rode anything with less than three fins again. Just for honorable mention, let is not forget the Bing Bonzer. I know the board had a following around the Santa Barbara, Ventura, L.A. County areas. It was a single fin with two strakes or little fins on either side of the single fin. The tail sections was also shaped with a couple semi-tunnels running from about the last two feet, out the back of the tail section. I remember I was the first guy in my crew to get a thruster. It was sometime in 1982. I bought it at Becker Surfboards in the South Bay. I could not wait to try it out. I saw it was breaking descent by the El Segundo Power Plant. My first wave was a late take off and it was magic. On a single fin I would have never made that drop or made it down the line. It just held and turned as quick or quicker than my twin fin. I was a believer after that first wave. It was so amazing I even made the take off and made section after section, that I can still remember it 37 years later. Needless to say, my buddies all soon had thrusters too.

Please the name of this music or Singel tnks

bells beach is crankn and no Patrick Swayzie WTF?

@ 7:58 MR attempts a 360... just not happening on that twinny, yet..

very stoned music

these guys were smooth operators

I remember these legendary guys well, but am I crazy for thinking they wouldn't stand out from the pack today?

@johnbasiglone1219

5 жыл бұрын

You are correct. If you could transport them in a time machine to today, with the exception of really big surf, they would not even qualify for an invitation to any of the major contests. They were great in their time, but by today's standards their moves would not cut it against the countless guys that shred today. The game has changed and the envelope has been pushed . Now, in big, big surf, these guys would still be contenders. In 20' Pipeline or 30+' Waimea Bay these cats would have held their own against today's crew.

@ezryder_

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnbasiglone1219 Todays pro surfers are too concerned about tricks for them to ever look as cool as these cats. Tricks are in style is out..

@lockedout8643

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnbasiglone1219 They were the best of their time and if they grew up in this time with todays boards they'd still be among the best.

The wounded gull is smothe as slik

massa

I liked Wayne lynch best. All due respect but the others had a real kookiness about them lol. MR nice turns but the arms look shit. Style is everything and lynch and PT had it

@lixibao

4 жыл бұрын

His arms do kind of fly all over but I love his speed and flow. The other dudes look stiff compared to MR.

バテンス！ のり！ パシフィックグランド1218 ノリ

This song was made for twin fins

Twin fin era

I think my memory is failing, I thought they were good surfers. The boards were so bloody slow it's no wonder they struggled.

@gregm4474

3 жыл бұрын

Is this filmed at real time speed? Seems slo-mo to me

PMSL, around 4:00 first claim in Pro Surfing. Shame on you dude!!

@Chris-vq5vr

5 жыл бұрын

Lol.. and then he got towed back out

@HKSlays

4 жыл бұрын

That was Rabbit. He was as flamboyant as they came, back in the day. Got beat up good on the North Shore for out of line.

This vid is ridi

MR was a freak ...

@872521

6 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing that MR had a nickname. Wounded Gull.

@mickmangles8000

6 жыл бұрын

yeah thats right

@tripp8833

6 жыл бұрын

I don't get it, "wounded gull"?

@topstar443

5 жыл бұрын

@@872521 right on but he wanted to be superman

@topstar443

5 жыл бұрын

@@tripp8833 of his style the way he surfed resembled a WS Gand Ozi humour, everyone gets a nickname and I am the nickname giver, just knicknamed Gabe Medina "Scabs" tripp from henceforth thouh nickname shall be "LSD"

Rabbit is fucked for busting a turn off of the end section there

Is Bell's a "slow" wave? The face doesn't look very steep. or does it seem that way because these legends are using it? OTW, it is a pretty thing. Thumbs up for the old Clapton song.

@nicbing2598

6 жыл бұрын

It's a JJ Cale song EC borrowed !

@872521

6 жыл бұрын

Ain't no shame. Clapton and Cale were close and both made it.

@tomk1tl

6 жыл бұрын

Nope, these guys know how to "work a wave" !

@mickmangles8000

6 жыл бұрын

Its Brian Jonestown massacre ...

@col2959

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's better for bodysurfing:)))

Without these guys, surfing wouldn't have been anywhere it is today. They pulled the sport through the 70's and 80's Save for a couple of guys today's surfers are Fu#@$ Idiots. No style, sense of humor or respect...

Good footage from the 80’s. But the bloody music makes me want to slit my wrists, bloody horrific.

@ramdarook

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for your nice comment about my surfing footage from the 80's. The action you are contemplating just because you don't like a couple of songs seems very drastic but if you deem it fit for yourself please go right ahead but I don't recommend it.

Looks fairly fat on that day. Probably deceptive though.

All these comments on how good etc. Did anyone wonder why slow motion.??? The waves suck! Mushy slow making for lotsa turns , all the way to top, then all way to bottom, nothing else to do! How many steep walls requiring driving to make 1, 3 I whole video. Run it at normal speed , the read your own comment(s) Np wonder MP didn't compete for that surf so bad

MR's arms look terrible when he surfs

@patrickallen4120

5 жыл бұрын

Today he looks like kook central!

@HLsab

5 жыл бұрын

@@patrickallen4120 you 2 are a fcking disgrace , he was the best

@johnbasiglone1219

5 жыл бұрын

He was the 'Wounded Gull'. He was with a crew at Malibu one weekday around 1979 . I could tell it was him immediately. I paddled out and just made sure not to crowd or hop him. He could sure shred the little wind chop coming in. At that time around then, 1978 to 1982, we started seeing the big names surfing some of the North Los Angeles County breaks. It was just surprising to see some of these big name guys in your local spots. MR was a legend and counted as one of the top five surfers of his era. How can you pick a number one, they were all equally good. Some got more press than others and received the hometown advantage in the few 'big money' contests. And others like MR were so good, that they shined through; especially MR since he was a lanky Randy Quaid look alike, he did not have the Shawn Thompson handsome good-looks. At this writing, I an 61 years of age. I have not surfed in 27 years. I sold or gave away all of my boards and equipment. I still have one vintage, almost perfect condition 7'4" Lightning Bolt pintail 'gun' surfboard in my barn (in a barn if that tells you something). I just kept that one board to keep as a connection to days gone by. It really gives me a melancholy feeling to see or talk of that golden era in surfing and that magical time in my life.

@col2959

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree it's like welcome to spaz city

I dunno, some nice surfing but nothing mind-blowing there.

Nice to see that surfing progressed from this manure style