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Is that Mike Purpus' little brother with him at 5:48? He looks just like Mike but way smaller. This is a great time machine! Thanks!

Burly

Those were the days. America is made in China now in 2024. 😢

KONG = RESPECT

Not many folks been with their lady as long as Mr and Mrs Alba. Says something huge about Salba and how it is possible to maintain a sense of kind humility and focus on empathy while becoming legend at a young age. Most dudes become self absorbed or addicted. Love for anything outside the pursuit is not a concern for them. Salba has always been an inspiration to me and only until recently had i been able to state why honestly.

the tittle should be: 73 year young man.....

I don't know what the fuck happened to Blender after 1989? Goin into the early 90s Street Skating was everything but where tf was Neil?

McGill shouldn't have made the Cut! Fuck Him!! I should've made the Cut, Ehhh Ehh??? Blender's The Best!!

I really domt know exactly what the rule says but Shane was standing up first. Obviously having the inside means nothing if you simply are back hoping a guy from the inside. I suppose the judges saw it more as they were getting up simultaneously, but they weren’t. This was from a time everything was going slaters way and he was being overscored. Beschen deserved at least one world title but he got robbed out of it by calls like this and overscoring slater.

Im waiting to hear Lance Mountain say, DO IT AGAIN...

My childhood

That was my favorite skateboard back in the days ZRollers

Beschen was the better surfer that day, and that year. Kelly's sleezy interference at the US Open killed Shane's momentum, or he would have been 98 world champ.

Nice!

Thanks for the memories TR good times with good friends. Underground skaters union.

Another guy keeping me stoked. My plan is to pass on the favour one day. Too many people think you have to stop at a certain age, so never try. If you look after yourself, choose your parents carefully, accept inevitable limitations and enjoy what you do there is a lifetime of joy ahead. Yes, luck is in the mix but it’s also generated by your life choices.

I can't respect a power list without Tom Carrol on it. He's tied for 1 with Occy.

Love Puerto Escondido ❤❤

1:30 oh my goodness!

What happened to Tom?

Here is another one that displays the real Miki. Mid 60s I was surfing and photographing the POP pier Cove,the south side later made famous by the Dogtown boys. Mostly just my friends and myself but Miki would show up on occasion. I also worked at the amusement pier running rides and games. Surf the mornings and go to work after. So Miki knew I was taking pics and wanted to look at them. He came to my place to check them out,visited for a while and talked story. Before he left he told me he was working at the Pussycat theater in Hollywood,a well known nudie movie house. He said to come by and he'd let me and friends in for free. So we showed up one night, asked for Miki and of course they never heard of him. Classssic. Left for Kauai shortly after that and never saw him again. When I read the book and articles about his exploits, the Pussycat scam,joke made total sense. Can only laugh.

These guys physical condition must be out of this world.

I 'd like to see Tom at Teahupo'o, now.

1963 huge rainstorm caused my Santa Monica High School to be closed due to flooding during the week. WooHoo! A day to surf when everyone else was in school. I came through the Santa Monica canyon to the PCH,stopped at the light, and what the....I look out at State Beach and it's 8-10ft breaking off the outer reef! One guy out. Quickly forgot about going north,pulled into the parking lot and paddled out. When I get outside it's Miki all alone. We knew each other mainly from Malibu. It was just the two of us for hours,no one showed up. Totally a memorable day. He was fun to surf with,with no crowd involved. And a joy to watch the freedom with which he surfed those empty walls.

Colorados……The place where only Europeans and Americans can surf and the people who have ancestors that lives there for thousands of years can’t. Whatever, Ortega needs to make all beaches accessible. 😂

It’s interesting as I started skating in 88 and it was just before things changed in skateboarding. Still I love this type of skating to the new stuff. Nothing against the new stuff but it doesn’t seem like skateboarding anymore. It seems……… I can’t think of the word but not fun not joy not chillin with mates finding some gnarly spot. It’s all a bit polished now.

Best ever in my book!

Back in the day when you could take photos of women's reproductive bits and not get arrested for rape.

Do you remember the month and year this section was recorded?

😂 what did RCJ say to that chick at the prize giving? The way she looked at him 😂😂😂

Surf heroes from another era

I surf because of Todd. He was always the kid I wanted to be like the most. I prefer to refer to him as "Cheshire." He had such a graceful, catlike style coupled with that mischievous grin to go along with his merry prankster of a personality (I always wondered why that wasn't the name he got pegged with, it always struck me as the obvious choice). He'd have had a field day with the photo sluts that so utterly dominate global culture today I can only imagine how much pleasure he'd derive from destroying influencers as skillfully as he destroyed an open canvas. I so miss that cat. His passing really atomized something essential in the surfing world and among all who knew him. Some relationships just got totally vaporized. Todd wasn't just the glue, he was the centrifugal force.

a lot of people feel the same way today all these years later...his predictions came true..to many people to many problems...more bullshit than ever ..humans are a failure...just look around

Speed freaks video era!

That Curren reentry at 9:09, hugely influential.

What a legend. Maximum respect.

Keep Strong 💪

The ultimate evolution of man Congratulations to all

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

The beginning of the end of good music.

now he's on the pipe

Up until that point I think it’s unanimous he was the best surfer pipe had ever seen.

It was so bonkers how quickly that kickflip wallride happened in the vid... I rewound and slo-mowed the fuck out of those 3 seconds so much my tape got fuzzed at that part... to see how it all went down gives me chills... one of the most ground breaking things to ever happen in skateboarding!

That's so rad! I wish I had some dude that would just come up and start shredding some guitar. It wouldn't even have to be Salba at a skate session. Just any guy. When I'm at work and it sucks. Just have my guitar guy come out and start busting. like a guitar minstrel. I could just be like "minstrel! Play Over the Mountain in c#" and there I'd have it

Roskopp was legit burly... what a perfect time capsule this footy is...

In 64 he was paddling away from PB point in SanDiego. He was scared of the San Diego boys from OB. He got called out. He was not comfortable in the San Diego area. Good surfer. A poser + a thief.

My surfing era. So much fun. Took up motorcycling too. Those were 'the days', no doubt about it.

34 years ago. I was here this day. Those were the days.

There are lots of great surfers with the aloha spirit, but Dora will always be known as just another asshole in the line-up..

Interesting!