George Greenough - Deep Tube Riding | Inner(lost) Limits of Pure Fun
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Pioneer surf cinematographer, filmmaker and board designer George Greenough recently found some lost 16mm waveriding footage from the late ‘60s. It has never been seen… until now.
Long before HD video cameras went digital and dinky, Santa Barbara native George Greenough was strapping a full-sized film camera to his back and capturing POV footage from inside the tube. Not only did he envision the shot, he hand-built the water housing for his camera to make it happen. It was just one innovation of many from a man who helped define modern surfing as much as anyone in history.
Fast forward to 2014 and George is still inventing new ways to experience the ocean. The guys at Patagonia Australia caught up with George recently and he mentioned finding some lost footage from the days of shooting "The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun." With support from Patagonia, George cut the footage together and added narration explaining his motivation and techniques for getting the shots. Music by Band of Frequencies brings a taste of the psychedelic vibe that permeated the original film. The footage premiered in August 2014 at Patagonia’s Cardiff, Santa Monica and Bowery surf shops, and now we’re releasing it for posterity.
We hope you enjoy this six-minute glimpse into surfing’s past. Special thanks to George, Glen Casey, Johnny Abegg and the crew at Patagonia Australia for making it possible.
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In the 50's 60's was in awe of George's innovations ... but never knew how much he had documented what he was doing over the decades. Thanks Patagonia for posting this George Gem!
40 years ago, and he still remembers all his positioning and thoughts during "that" wave:)...Awesome!!
Look at the film and you can see why he remembers what he did.
"the tube, looking like one you would draw in school" (on the right side margin of your notebook, the kind you can flip through).
When i was a grom i had the pleasure of finding one of George's Spoons in a garage in an old Forestry Commission lodge at Bundagen on the NSW North Coast in the 1980's. I was small i used it as both a kneeboard and stand up for about a year. It was a really unusual board to use and generated a ton of speed from loading up the fin on a bottom turn, i have never felt anything like it including an old McTavish i owned with a similar Tuna Tail type fin. I wish i hung onto it.
Patagonia got this piece right...original, classic, love it.
Unreal voice-over. So cool to hear a pioneer talk about what was going through his head and what he was doing. Thanks for posting this.
Better than most of the go pro clips of today.
Definitely.
George . I am 68 years of age and surfed in my hey day through those unforgettable short years of an era the likes of which we will never see again. I could not believe what I was seeing in your footage then - and I still can not believe what I am seeing as I view it again - right now. It is an absolute credit to your way ahead of it's time thinking, particularly considering the kind of materials you were using to film it. This footage deserves every award in the book.
George was so far ahead of his time, and a true surfer
Always trying to regain “edge control”. Bless this man. Sharing the sensation with the world. Pioneer days!
Legend .... his contribution to surfing in all it's forms cannot be overstated.
thank you so much....he inspired me to stay on my knees for 25 years....his mat-surfing is mind-blowing
as this footage serves witness to.
What a legend.... all the surfers nowadays that use Gopro. Imagine having 70lbs of camera strapped on your back. Anyone posting surf videos should make sure they've seen Crystal Voyager.
Final scene set to Pink Floyd 'Echoes' is incredible.
just so you know many of us miss your presence at rincon and about. i am 70 now but still shape boards and paddel out when i feel good. i tought of you as a freind hanging out at radons boat yard watching you desiging their boat. your an inspiration. the best to you...
Incredible footage George. Respect.
Fantastic George!
Awesome film and a legendary waterman ,The Famous Greenough tube,unforgettable
thank you George
he was so far ahead of his time....to get that shot way back than, amazing
I remember how excited I got when Surfer Magazine did anything on Gorge . It was such a counter culture/ cutting edge thing. The best part was the zero politics and weak weed. My parents built their first home on Granada in Dana Point 1973
I watched George do this on a mat on a flawless winter day at Little Drakes in January 1970 - El Nino year. Talked with George later as a macker knocked the film off the camer and he came in. What a genius.
I talked to George filming at Little Drakes on "The Ranch" January 1970. I'll never forget it - absolute genius.
I will always remember watching you on your spoon and mat at Rincon. Epic days and memories.
Don Long PHS 1964=Graduate.
“The tube looking like one you would draw at school”.
Wow, this brought back memories. I watched the Innermost Limits at Reseda High when it first came out, having been a teenage shop rat getting indoctrinated in all things Greenough and hulls at Greg Liddle's Tarzana location. It was a shock to sit in the front row of the theater and feel like the wave was coming over your head. Everyone was ducking their heads watching the movie.
I always thought these shots were Byron. Who knew? Funny thing is, 35 years later, I was lucky enough to surf Lennox with two of my kids on a day with similar size and conditions. Lennox rocks and it's a mindblower that George could keep a mat going in the barrel to get the shot! Amazing skill in waves of consequence.
Absolute genius.
thanks so much to George and everyone for putting out the effort to post this stuff here and to recreate oriented film The narration was great I saw the film very early on when it showed at San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara and it was up a break through first surf films without duration just music anyway thanks again
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Howard Acquistapace
*...without naration...*
"Regain edge control" 🤘 I love his hydrodynamic descriptions of surfing. In Crystal Voyager "all thrust and no drag" always sticks with me. What a legend!
Thank you! what gift, to hear George Greenough narrate one of the many historic moments in his life as a surf innovator!
Thank you George, modern surfing would not be what it is with out your genius!
Excellent, thanks for posting this!
George is so inspiring.
I used to sail Sea Shells in Santa Barabra, CA with George Greenough; I never won a race, but George went on to greater things, he, I think he now lives in Australia! Regards, Karl G. Smith II
all on a MAT!
Awesome!! the very first gopro prototype!
Thanks for posting !!
Yep, seems like a lot less than 48 years ago when I watched the Innermost Limits at Cundiths house. George shot the movie up on a bedsheet in the livingroom. Those guys took me out to the islands to surf the left, up to the ranch, and surfed rincon at night on the airmat. Still got the last of 4 Wilderness Mike shaped for me.
Moro Moro re moro moro
I grew up surfing more Mesa in Santa Barbara and a friend called it Moro.......
anything to do with your use of the words?
I rode wildernesses back then and I still have one from 1969
I had one shaped by cundith that worked really great and I rode it till it died
Howard Acquistapace
oh shit or more meadow
A really interesting video. Everything he says makes sense
Good on ya George...love to also see more footage of Morning Light voyages please mate
Awesome stuff!
So good.
Standing in a guy's front yard today, up on The Mesa, looking at "your" seal, George. Happy to hear you're in Byron Bay. Hope you're enjoying the sea turtles. 8/13/24
So RAD!!!
love it
I used to, and still Idolize Greenough. I started kneeboarding in the `60`s. Where can I get this footage?
I wanted to say than you for this amazing film, I watched it 42 times ! it was at the ABC cinema in Luton, the manager was someone I new from Cambridge, so it was on a free pass, so to speak, Performance the Mick Jagger/ James Fox was the other Movie on the bill, and by an odd coincidence, I had working for Andrew Smith and harknes, taken part in making the actual screen I watched it on, some months before, I was staggered by the cinematic skill shown here, and I enjoyed hearing about the process involved. I do have one question, did you manipulate the speed / pitch to fit the music ? I always wondered, as I have a keen interest in Animation, I loved the soundtrack too ! thanks again for a great piece of work . Jay Taylor Cambridge UK
and all of this on air mattress, lol.....what friggen genius he was
surfers are concerned with rocker and rail shape on custom board....i was even that guy.. you can make anything work if you focus on what can be more than why its not!
Onya Greenough
Most Excellent ¿
Time for Crystal Voyager II, III, and IV.
he was using a spoon on those tube shots. camera on his back for some shots. on his lap ,sorta for some.
This is gold.
Does George have footage or photos of his windsurfing from the eighties?
It’s called The Money Shot matey
Heavy.
MORE
Wonder if this wasn't in "the fantastic plastic machine".
Lyndon Reddick
i saw a movie called that in Isla Vista's Magic Lantern Theatre...a single showing matinee August (I think) 1968.
Mostly I remember alot of Nat Young narrating his own surfing and alot if George on his kneeboards. The currently available Plastic Fantastic is very different.
It was very raw and some seemed uncut!
It was like, WOW!
?? or '69?
Howard, I saw it in Honolulu in either 68 or 69. It was playing somewhere near my school Punahou. Yep, I remember a lot of in the tube shots, by GG. I didn't think there was a version other than You tube clips. Look on Y-tube for Fingers or China Walls, it was there that I'll swear I surfed with GG a few times. He had a see thru spoon with a donut like U-ring border of glassed foam. Broom cut blonde hair, it was him, I was only ten or so. Hawaii Kai.
Lyndon Reddick
will check that out
thanks
Hell Ya Cito Rats...
please, whats the name of the song?
I'm wondering the same
I feel like I’m at a Pink Floyd concert
then you need to see the Echoes segment of Crystal Voyager......preferably baked. I was projectionist at the Manly Silver Screen theatre in Sydney. We had Crystal Voyager on often and guys tripping on acid were so funny to see as they watched it. The theatre was owned by 3 surfers, Peter Troy, Paul Witzig and David Elfick who also made surf films which they cut out the back of the screen. Good times
What KLINGON voted this down?