Surf Hero's

by **Tex** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:10 pm

I was just checking out an article from Surfer Mag online and it had some recent video footage of Tom Curren in Indo. He still rips the shite out of any wave he surfs.

Then I went over to Surfline and they had pics of my boy Shawn Briley getting some bombs at outter reef Pipe. I was super stoked to see him back in the line up. I still have pics of him divng head first off a massive lip at pipe and not even sweating it.

Other surf hero's in no particular order:

Tom Carroll

Johnny Boy Gomes (where the fuk is he...what happened after he won pipe back in 97)

Brock Little

Jerry Lopez

Rick Rassmussen and Rory Russel ( Bali High my fav. surf movie all time)

Brad Gerlach

Rob Machado

Anyway, I am sure this thread has been done already but if you have some, throw em out there.

by **Spent** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:07 am

Not hero's but these surfers provide much inspiration...

MP
Buttons
Curren
Carwyn Williams (got to throw in one of the Welsh boyos in there...)
Nathan Fletcher
Smelly Skater
Dane

by **buoyhead** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:12 am

kenny boy ziegler

by **Friend Of The Hawk** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:57 am

Jack Brown...
Bruce Prader...

by **stinky** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:07 pm

I was thinking about Jack the other day, how is he? Miss his stoke in the water!

by **Chunk** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:18 pm

by **smithgrind** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:36 pm

No heroes, just wardo.

by **Wilbur Kookmeyer** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:25 pm

Spent...the anti-hero hero....though I have enver actually seen him surf. I did watch him bob arou nd in choppy crap a few times though.

Smithers....it's like he is somehow putting the moves on the wave the way he would some MILF in the bar at Meadows.

SooLoo...unyielding...self aware...powerful...good taste in trucks.

Intrepid.....where did he go? Fearless...but in an unaware sense....like Sparky....

Sparky.....knows better...blurs the line of bravado and foolishness...

CB Mark....good selection of guns....

Doc...though i have never really seen him surf either...but he has a great view of things...and was always good for a beer whenever I saw him...

Fish....if you ever wondered what kind of Fish that Fish would be if he were a Fish it would be a Flounder.... Plus, anyone who can be so successfuly unemployed deserves props...

Speel... miss that guy. Talk about a wonderfully juxtaposition of balancing healthy and u nhealthy observances of the surfing world....

honorable mention would be a cadre of other locals in this line up...Gaz, that other PC charger whose name escapes me right now....several others actually...whom I have yet to have the chance to surf with....

For reals...though...

Garry 'don't all me Kong' Elkerton.......

by **stinky** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:19 pm

by **Doc** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:55 pm

Wilbur
I surfed with you at PC...
You never looked once?
Anyway...
Skip Frye...
Gerry Lopez...
Tom Curren...
Top 3 at least.

Doc

by **buoyhead** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:23 am

Dr. Ben

by **harg** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:48 pm

Kelly Slater ... almost 40 and still winning titles and dominating free surfs in the best lineups in the world
My buddy's uncle Steve ... let me borrow a board so i could learn to surf
People who wax girls' cars ... so badass, they should totally go home :shock:

by **brdsurf** » Sun May 01, 2011 1:48 am

Heroes are a tough thing. You just never know what they may do in 10 or 20 years time.
Buuuuut, growing up in the PC area and starting in the mid 80s, didnt really have access to the mags and such so I guess my heroes are those that I got to see surf, talk to and hear stories of far away places like SC, Baja and Hawaii.
Francis Decambro was one for sure. HE was so friendly and supportive of a young grom freezing in just shorts. Got to see him doing 360s at the first Nelscott contest in the late 80s.
Dave McGill as he was the first guy I saw charge hard on self made equipment.
Jeff Hite for all the wrong and right reasons. Born in a shack in a village of Tillamook county, always tried to live by the beach even with family in PDX. Didnt really shortboard, but ripped the snot on a longboard that made most shortboarders look silly. One trip with him down south, he was on an old Hansen log, we went out in San Clemente and Jeff Kramer was going who is this guy! Funniest part was he turned us groms onto the buying last years rental suits on the cheap. He always has the rental tags on the back of his suits. Quite often times humbled valley rippers when they figured out he wasnt a rental kook.
Chuck and Marcus for taking me around and pushing me to go bigger and bigger.
Once I got the mags though....
Martin Potter to me was a surf god. Especially in 89-90.
Mr X at big pipe on 4 fins!
Kong.
But I guess more than those guys, just those that were around in the 80s when at places like brohampton you could surf the best day of the year hoping, just hoping a couple others would show up so you could have a chat while waiting for sets. But gone are those days!

by **SooLoo** » Sun May 01, 2011 7:15 am

by **smithgrind** » Thu May 05, 2011 4:04 pm

Legend Status - LoLo MaColo.

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