Elkerton was much better suited to big waves. He was incredible back then at the Triple Crown on the North Shore. At Sunset especially, he was legendary at the Billabong Pro's back then.
its amazing just how far competetive surfing has advanced in the last 20 something years! from the attitudes of the competetors then, regarding each other with mighty scowls, and todays pros slapping high fives and hooting each other on.. beach starts vs. todays ski assist....and todays surfing is light years beyond! i wont even get into the multi media wizardry, the instant replay, live webcast.... we live in a great time to be a fan of the sport!
That's hard to watch. It's crazy to think that this was pro level back then when now it's less then avg Joe at Uppers on a bad day. Kind of embarrassing.
I wonder how they would do on modern equipment? And the judging criteria was so dumb back then. Who the hell cares how far you can ride whitewater? Cool video nonetheless. Thanks for posting it.
Agree about the uselessnesss off riding whitewater, but I get really pissed of watching some waves these days when the surfers just exit the wave before it is really over. Best example of that is Pipe after the barrel. There is no better place for a hard driving cutback then that little corner/shoulder of Pipe after the barrel. You are going at 100 mph and all you got to do is bury your rail on a huge turn, but today's pros don't even try to do it. Tom Carroll did it so well
Wow! A lot of Kong hate here. I saw him get a mad barrel. Do some sweet carves and sick backhand snaps. I guarantee he would outscore anyone here on the same equipment in the same sized surf. So much keyboard warrior is ridiculous. Plus the surf is easy 6ft! It's not pumping but hardly garbage. Casuals..
How to make really cool old surf comp footage unwatchable? Ruin it with the crappiest "music" imaginable. That robotic, techno drivel is not even of the era. Why? Ffs!
@Paul Bongiorno im from west oahu and grew up surfing with johnny boy! And after some rough overweight years hes actually been training and surfing hard and is in top shape right now!
yep kongs board! holy shit!! channels so deep and no rocker n it showedn the lack of looseness and he had power too so if it was someone with less power it be completely stiff.
Kong's frontside style was ATROCIOUS😂 Only in big surf would it be OK, especially in Sunset, where he was awesome. In small conditions like those, he should stick to his backhand, which was very decent indeed...
I remember way way back in the day reading an article in surfer mag Tom Curren saying that Kelly Slater wouldnt amount to very much. This was around the time when KS was on bay watch. TC couldnt have bin more wrong
Gary Elkerton excelled in big powerful waves. Not his best conditions here and would have benefited from a smaller and looser board. He killed it in big waves.
I was early 20s in 1988, surfed since I was 6. I never liked this shit..noone really did. I love watching contests now though. They have come up with perfect format. Who in their right mind thought it would be good to reward and encourage a surfer to prone out and ride a foamy to the shore, after getting descent barrel out the back..all that time wasted :) thank god for progress eh??
The aspect ratio on this video seems off. It's too elongated in width (x-axis) making the waves look extra slopey and the boards long and flat. I realize surfboards had way less rocker back then, I recall riding them, but the video exacerbates the appearance. Too bad because the waves look pretty decent for Japan.
One of the best videos ever. Exciting track as Curren polished style detonates Kong!!
came for the surfing. stayed for the good vibrations.
トムカレンすごいですね！今見ても最高に格好いい。
めちゃ男前だし。
Not sure which was worse, Kong's style or the music.
Kong's style
The music
no such thing as a bad style on world class surfers.otherwise they wouldn't be competing at that level.
Elkerton was much better suited to big waves. He was incredible back then at the Triple Crown on the North Shore. At Sunset especially, he was legendary at the Billabong Pro's back then.
@@shawnweston4741 Kong was one of the last of the butt-wiggle surfing and Tommy was ushering in the future!
Yeah! Pottz sittin on the top of the bus drinkin a brew!!
Yeah little gunny for those waves super stiff ….still shredding miss those days so bad 😢
its amazing just how far competetive surfing has advanced in the last 20 something years! from the attitudes of the competetors then, regarding each other with mighty scowls, and todays pros slapping high fives and hooting each other on.. beach starts vs. todays ski assist....and todays surfing is light years beyond! i wont even get into the multi media wizardry, the instant replay, live webcast.... we live in a great time to be a fan of the sport!
*competitors
Totally Agree!!!
It’s Elko’s RIDE.
Was this back when he'd beat you up if you called him Kong?
Style always should win
ちょっと現在のマニューバラインが違うけれど両選手のボトムターンなど基本に忠実で
今でも教訓を与えます。
この素晴らしいスタイルは感激ものです。
今流のやたら板を必要以上に振り回すのはなんかゴマカシっぽいですがトムやコングの
動きは素直でスムーズ！
you said a mouthful
Long boards, 6'4'' +. Their boards from 1982-83-84 were way more ripping than the longboards they're riding here.
4:04 is why they were riding the step up boards
I remembered that any kind of surfers use to longest board around early 90’s didnt they ？
Wow worst curren footage I've ever witnessed and watching Kong flapping his arms around was Ultra cringey.🤤
Naa Curren was still flowing and ripping in.this video....
That's hard to watch. It's crazy to think that this was pro level back then when now it's less then avg Joe at Uppers on a bad day. Kind of embarrassing.
1982-83-84 surfing was higher level than what they did here.
kong was a big wave ridder rips sunset
I wonder how they would do on modern equipment? And the judging criteria was so dumb back then. Who the hell cares how far you can ride whitewater? Cool video nonetheless. Thanks for posting it.
Agree about the uselessnesss off riding whitewater, but I get really pissed of watching some waves these days when the surfers just exit the wave before it is really over. Best example of that is Pipe after the barrel. There is no better place for a hard driving cutback then that little corner/shoulder of Pipe after the barrel. You are going at 100 mph and all you got to do is bury your rail on a huge turn, but today's pros don't even try to do it. Tom Carroll did it so well
Wow! A lot of Kong hate here. I saw him get a mad barrel. Do some sweet carves and sick backhand snaps. I guarantee he would outscore anyone here on the same equipment in the same sized surf. So much keyboard warrior is ridiculous. Plus the surf is easy 6ft! It's not pumping but hardly garbage. Casuals..
thats not what i saw
His style smells. Better in big surf, doesn't look like he's smelling up the place
It's terrible they had to ride the whitewash all the way in. I never realized how stinky Kong was.
8:27
KONG LIVES
Which is worse? Kongs style,the music or the shit waves they had to compete in?
Those boards look totally crap. No rocker they just don’t want to turn. You know when the surf and the equipment is bad when Curren looks this shit.
I grew up surfing in this era. Late 80’s there was a brief period of longer flat boards for speed.. I surfed better on this style board actually.
kongs board was not a small wave groveller
I'm fairly certain Kong doesn't endorse this song
Elkerton's arm-swing is really annoying to watch.
music sucks
Gay
Cringe!!!!
Amazing how torturous it was to turn those dinosaur boards back then.
I think it was just how kong surfed🤣
Naa..that thing Curren is on is still easy to surf....
Elko's board was seriously lacking "rocker"and was too long for 4 - 5 ft. gutless surf.
met both of them , Tom is an angel in and out of the water ,for the other guy ... no comment....
Stinker against styler. No comparison.
How to make really cool old surf comp footage unwatchable? Ruin it with the crappiest "music" imaginable. That robotic, techno drivel is not even of the era. Why? Ffs!
That's not techno at all, but I agree with you on the bad quality of the music and how it ruins the footage.
How did he make it to the finals? Was the semi a game of rock/paper/scissor?
hahha fuck me u got me good.
Baha best comment
he looked alot better out at pumping 10' - 15' sunset
@Paul Bongiorno im from west oahu and grew up surfing with johnny boy! And after some rough overweight years hes actually been training and surfing hard and is in top shape right now!
He surfed a lot better on shorter wider boards in 1982/83/84
yep kongs board! holy shit!! channels so deep and no rocker n it showedn the lack of looseness and he had power too so if it was someone with less power it be completely stiff.
Kong's frontside style was ATROCIOUS😂
Only in big surf would it be OK, especially in Sunset, where he was awesome.
In small conditions like those, he should stick to his backhand, which was very decent indeed...
I remember way way back in the day reading an article
in surfer mag Tom Curren saying that Kelly Slater wouldnt
amount to very much. This was around the time when KS
was on bay watch. TC couldnt have bin more wrong
Gary Elkerton excelled in big powerful waves. Not his best conditions here and would have benefited from a smaller and looser board. He killed it in big waves.
トムカレンのスタイリッシュさは今でも一番だと感じているし、格好良すぎる！！！
I was early 20s in 1988, surfed since I was 6. I never liked this shit..noone really did. I love watching contests now though. They have come up with perfect format. Who in their right mind thought it would be good to reward and encourage a surfer to prone out and ride a foamy to the shore, after getting descent barrel out the back..all that time wasted :) thank god for progress eh??
How long are those boards lol. And still Tom kick some lip.
If they were Dungeons and Dragons characters, Kong gets -2 for style, Curren gets +3
yikes, those boards look like shit. if curren struggles on it, you know its a weird shape.
Kings style makes me puke,the soundtrack did not relate.
What's with the massive Cloudbreak-looking wave at 1:02?
Was bigger earlier in the contest...Niijima can get some swell. But still it could be a wave from somewhere else...
Gary got no style
tom really shredded him
I think potters nose was bleeding
懐かしいですね。オッキー、関野聡、久我孝男とかも映ってる。トムカレンの波を読む力とテクニックは超絶凄い。
なつかしい。生で見ました
VTRがどっかいってしまっていたので、助かります。しかも高画質。曲もいい。オリジナル曲ってどんなんだったっけ？
この時の丸井プロの遠くからの離れた動画は初めてかも。
The aspect ratio on this video seems off. It's too elongated in width (x-axis) making the waves look extra slopey and the boards long and flat. I realize surfboards had way less rocker back then, I recall riding them, but the video exacerbates the appearance. Too bad because the waves look pretty decent for Japan.
Where the hell is the rocker....surfing ironing boards.
Kong raced past every section and then pulled straight at the end section lol 7:02
Tom Currenの出現によって波へのアプローチが変わった。時代を変えた彼の「ラディカル・サーフ」スタイルは観るものを現在も魅了し続けている。。。
What episode of Ninja Turtles is this (Kong).
at least the judges got it right. it was a bad time for pro surfing, heaps of small waves.
Only could watch 5 minutes, that music made think I was stuck in Baywatch
Not good waves but cool to see these guys. I miss these old times
Kong had such an uncomfortable style
these waves are bubblegum Northshore hawaii more betta
Ah the ASP in the 80s. Fond memories.
Japanese women are so pretty.
Que nostalgia 🤣🤣🤣
God curren
The era of those frustrating vee bottom boards.
Notice Kong's channel bottom board here.
great stuff!!!!
PUKE music! I feel sick!
Press Mute
I actually like this song. It's better than the crap they play nowadays.
It sounds like the soundtrack for a Tampon commercial
I don't know what's worse, the music or riding the white water.
Please change the music!!!
Who the fuck watches tom Curran surf and thinks of this song
great track, awesome late 2000s house sound. now classic just like the boards and styles in this surf contest
Dreadful song
@@rocker4577 a matter of opinion
I tear harder on my soft top than ding kong! 😂
try to outdo the kong at 15 foot sunset