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Wait... Dora ahead of Simmons, Velzy, Greenough, MR and Anderson?!?! Seriously?!?! Simmons innovated modern fins. Velzy figured out that if you want the board to turn, you put the wide point aft - in the 50s!!! Greenough gave the Aussies a head start on the short board revolution. MR invented the performance twin based on an offhand comment from RB, and then won 4 world titles on it. How many world titles did Dora ever win? No forget that, did Dora even win ONE SINGLE CONTEST in his entire life? Natas Kaupas won more contests than Dora, and he's a skater! Then... Simon Anderson invented the thruster so Tommy and Kelly could ride them. And you could even throw Hobie and Dave Sweet in there too. The REAL innovators ALWAYS built and rode their own equipment. I guess you could say Dora had the cat, but all the top surfers of the 60s had a model with some unique feature, and Dora probably stole the step idea from Greenough anyway, considering the nose of da cat looks like a Greenough spoon. They're both from Montecito, so for sure Dora knew Greenough. Nobody else was doing flexible surfboards besides George. Pretty sad that Dora's only "innovation" was copied from George's spoons.

Sorry but the music doesn't add any thing

Cant even hear Joel with that annoying music

Somebody has been on Wikipedia's Dora page and inserted tons of unsubstantiated stuff about him being some closet 'White Wing Nazi extremist racist' I have no doubt he was 'of his era', but reads like typical 2020s revisionist b**t to me.

Miki was great but don't forget the king...Greg Noll

Between 9 and 11 y.o., I used to surf San onofre, I thought I was the hottest 11 y.o. at the beach with a life of respect and popularity in the surfing world, when I was 12 my family moved to Santa Barbara, when I saw Tommy Curren surfing Hammond’s reef for the first time it was a huge reality check and I started skateboarding instead.. Talk about natural talent!!!!!

hard to understand him with the music so loud...

Dora pushing off surfers who dared cut him off was great, like they thought it was ok to just stand there and Dora is going to just let them get away with it. And Dora looked a little like Burt Reynolds at the end of the video when Reynolds was in that movie Boogie Nights.

Cant really hear the words over the music.. oh well. next

Joel and Family lived across the street from me in U.C. HUGGINS STREET. Joe,his Dad was a friend. I moved away 35 years ago so Josh n Joel were very young. GOOD TIMES IN CALI

Dora was an asshole. RIP Johnny Fain.

I'm from so.cal new port beach, it's all a life style. Wsl is about a check book, no love for the surf. The best fuxxer from CA. Is not going to be on tour without $$$ backing....

Good stuff Joel and well told! I enjoyed it.

I would like to add George Greenough as well. The humble innovator turns 80 on 6/ 11/ 3021

Joel, you're smoover, than anyone else

Lopez, King of pipe

What’s this song called?

Jack Daniels on the T-Shirt ?

Gregg Knoll ranks number 1........

Great content but the background music is freaking killing me it’s way too loud.

unfortunately, you left out Tom Blake who was hugely influential in the early years. :)

Sorry but to not include Nat Young is a travesty in any recollection of the history of surfing the man basically introduced the short board era and how about Simon Andereson the man who brought the modern thruster into the world.

Great footage, but the stupid music drowned out JT😡

Th@nk/[hi*

..Dora was not universally revered. To those of us who surfed Malibu semi-regularly, he was a thug. A skillful thug, but a thug nonetheless.

In 1974 I was 8 years old, I saw the ocean for the first time at Gunnamatta Beach Victoria, my father drove my Sister, older brother, and my self to slide down the sand dunes on cardboard. We got to the second car park, walked along the back of the dunes to the highest one we found, could hear the ocean, got to the top, looked out over Basstrait. I had never seen the ocean or heard of surfing or seen a surfboard. What I saw for the first time, all in one hit, to me it was looking at another world, time, space, dimension ! Estimating the size of the waves now 44 years later, 10-12 feet with bombs. To the left 2 miles away at Cape Shank, right, to the west coast of Bells Beach, as fare as your eye could see, off shore perfection. Straight in front of us looking down from the dunes out in thoes big waves sitting behind a large sand bar with a left & right hand solid sand bar peak that would rival Pipe Line were 6 soul surfs taking off dropping into those huge barrels running down the long deep channels & being spat out of the foam ball, all on single fin short boards charging, I was in awe ! Within a month I got my first board at a garage sale $30.00, 7,2 Mark Warren pin tail single fin ! I think the short board refinement was happening much earlier in Vico in solid cold heaving waves ? I feel truly blessed to have had that as my introduction to the Ocean & Surfing ! Only a Soul Surfer knows the feeling !

KOOK

MORO MORO You are right on!!!

Freddy Pfahler, Dora told Dewey, When the So Bay guys come to Malibu on a good day and Freddy is there, he gets out to watch Freddy. The best through the period!

JOEL is a KOOK!

Joel the Wizard with any stick.....Pretty much a Legend by now.......

Slater enough said

My soul is melting!

alot of people don't know who Phil Edwards is now a days and it's sad. he was the greatest!!

No Nat?

Dora riding 3 foot waves and acting like a dick is not very impressive.

Though he never really saw anyone of them surf, except on film, there were guys who he never, ever heard of who were red hot. A lot of things made up surfing before the magazines and movies and contests started stamping out the cookie cutter heros of today. Wayne Lynch changed the world and left the spotlight because of a war that Joel only saw hollywood versions and Butch Van Artsdalen wasn't called Mr. Pipeline for nothing,

I think Joel has every right to be speak about his past, I remember Longboarder magazine in 92 and he was styling, when the majority of us were scratching around on 6.0. How many groms do you know who were educated in life by Miki fucking Dora and Nat Young,,, How can you hate on that.....Surfing is an extention of ones self" Your hate is fueled by jelousy,,,,,You are the pricks who get hard watching Medina

Tudor is a tool. He has no business talking about one of surfings true legends.

This is like Mickey Mouse talking about John Wayne.

Learning surf history.. and this is great stuff that i found, thanks a lot.

Tudor is so full of himself. He's nothing special & average @ best.

The "Dora Saga" in instructive: There was no doubt he was the greatest I had ever seen surf Malibu and Rincon. I know becaue I started surfing Malibu and Rincon in 1963 and skateboarding West LA 1960 and saw him in action. He was a prick as he almost injured many "kooks" (including me) that "got in his way" as if he had that right. He was an "elitist" from a rich family in Montecito. Revealing dark attitudes of his class. I look at Miki like a "Great White Hunter" from the 19th century.The enemy of our increasingly "homogenized" globalism - Dora is a relic of a bygone era.

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This video blew my mind. Nick the Tooth, you are amazing man! This should be seen by so many more people...

directed by nick the tooth

4:42 great image of Noll and Dora surfing the same wave at Waimea

Love it ♥