Cowabunga-What-Excitement!!! Many thanks for this fun & historical film. May the Kahunas bless you. Wishing good fortune to you and your dear ones. Peace.
Walt Phillips the producer and director of this film was a friend of mine. Unfortunately all that's left of his films are CDs that were poorly scanned from copies on videotape in the late 1980s. His original prints were all destroyed in the Malibu fire a few years ago they were at the home of Challengers guitarist Randy Nuert preparing to be digitally scanned when Randy's home Burned. So all there is of Walt Phillips film legacy of the late 50s and early 1960s are these old video copies. Walt has passed on someone needs to make it their project to attempt to restore Walt's films from the CD tape copies.
Friend from Waimanalo built the first shortboard ( I ever saw) around 1964. The nose of his 9'6" longboard got badly dinged, so he just cut it off, he did thin it down a bit, came out a little less than 8 foot. I remember trying it (small waves only for me) and it would shudder when it got up to speed. He was a "hot dogger" and it never bothered him.
So cool to here about what some of these guys were know for. Like being the guy at alo Moana or a guy who always surfed the inside at sunset. The chargers , the stylests and so on. I watched this all the way through.
Cowabunga-What-Excitement!!! Many thanks for this fun & historical film. May the Kahunas bless you. Wishing good fortune to you and your dear ones. Peace.
This is an awesome video! Thanks for sharing Timothy! ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏
Walt Phillips the producer and director of this film was a friend of mine. Unfortunately all that's left of his films are CDs that were poorly scanned from copies on videotape in the late 1980s. His original prints were all destroyed in the Malibu fire a few years ago they were at the home of Challengers guitarist Randy Nuert preparing to be digitally scanned when Randy's home Burned. So all there is of Walt Phillips film legacy of the late 50s and early 1960s are these old video copies. Walt has passed on someone needs to make it their project to attempt to restore Walt's films from the CD tape copies.
Great movie, great history of the early days on the North Shore. We want more!
Yessssss! More, more, more!
This throwback is so cool!! Thanks for sharinggg!!
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Friend from Waimanalo built the first shortboard ( I ever saw) around 1964. The nose of his 9'6" longboard got badly dinged, so he just cut it off, he did thin it down a bit, came out a little less than 8 foot. I remember trying it (small waves only for me) and it would shudder when it got up to speed. He was a "hot dogger" and it never bothered him.
this surfing is far more difficult and critical than what the pros are doing at the contest going on right now
So cool to here about what some of these guys were know for. Like being the guy at alo Moana or a guy who always surfed the inside at sunset. The chargers , the stylests and so on. I watched this all the way through.
The wake that comes off the side of these boards while riding is like 5 or 6 feet. Amazing control of those logs man!
Where was lance Carlson and flippy Hoffman. Maybe they were just groms at that time.
Riding some big waves on some primitive equipment...! Amazing!
Thank you 👌✌🙏
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Cool my uncle and friends in this one. Thanks.
You never hear about these early surf star’s anymore, too bad.
That's my uncle and his friends, guys I looked up to. Sadly they're all gone now.
All ledgends die hard. Only the fans keep them alive with movies and literature
Thank you for all the hard work putting this together
Dropping late from the lip back then on those boards was hairball 😮
Hairball that term is old
this summer its on and cracking