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From Joe Tabler's
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Aloha,
From Bill Simon, Cape May, NJ: I was hoping you could pass this along, I am in a position that forces me to sell off my collection to try to keep my home for my wife and I and our 7 children . I can be reached at surfersimo@aol.com or (609 705 5172) est.
His list follows below.... One of the stellar items: a Matt Kivlin board:
Longboard Surfing Video of the Week
The last Longboard surfing video of the week was more like video of the month! Sorry for not being on top of that. This video is outside the boarders of the site, but it's pretty decent, so decided to put it up anyway. Well now summer has finally come, it felt like we were in April for about 3 months! Hard to believe 4th of July weekend has come and gone!! This Longboard Surfing Video comes out of Central Florida, which is very similar to our summers, glassy morning windswell!
As always, If you have a good suggestion/entry send it to us at: waves4newyork@aol.com
Again, a warm welcome to all of our out New York and New Jersey Longboard compadres. Feel free to come into our Longboard
Surfing Forums section and join the conversation, or at least see what your New York and New Jersey cousins are conversing about.
NEW JERSEY BEACH WEATHER
Welcome to all the new Longboard surfers joining our ranks!! If you're just learn how to surf, it's great to drop into our New Longboarders Surfing Forum, great place to ask questions and get advice. If you're brand brand new, orare lookingto get into surfing, here's a great Learn how to Surf DVD worth looking at. Seeyou in the water!
Looking for a good stocking stuffer??!! Great new Learn to Surf Video on the market. For anybody who is looking to get into surfing in the Spring/Summer If you're planning on travelling to a winter surf camp in Costa Rica or Hawaii, might be a good idea To pick up this Learn How to Surf DVD and get a little practice in before you take your trip, it may improve your surfing and help you have a better surf experience. You pick up the DVD for $20 bucks at: http://www.surflessons
From Bill Hamilton
Big Wednesday board
This surfboard I used in Big Wednesday. I made it for big wave longboard surfing in El Salvador in 1977. John Milius wanted us to ride Fifteen foot plus surf with long boards. I ended up making probably {no historic claim here} the first "fungun" to outrun and manage big walls and still look like a "noserider", predating Rusty Preisendorfers "desert storm " design by about fifteen years. It needed to look like Balsa wood, so I sprayed it with paint and coined the term "falsa". One
of the very first. It is 8'6" x 20.5"x 3". Very fine condition,
considering Warner Bros. took it back to the prop department and
sprayed it fireman yellow to be a common background board for future
movies. A stuntman friend followed it for almost a year and stole it
off the lot and sent it back to me in Hawaii. I removed the paint and
put a clear gloss polish finish to it. Wonderful riding surfboard.
Single box. Greg MacGillivray has published at least three shots of me
riding that surfboard in Surfing, Surfer, and The Surfers Journal.
None of the replica falsa "woodboards" to follow, eight total, Terry
Martin and Tom Parrish shapes ever carried the "Bear" logo for editing
purposes, as did mine. Worth is the percieved value of what it is. An
offer is that perception. Your turn. Aloha Bill Hamilton brhamilton@hawaiilink.net
Send a Brotha Some CA$H!!
What do you think we do this because we love sharing the stoke that only a Longboard Surfer knows??!! That great feeling of dropping in early and gliding smoothly down the face of a wave? That great feeling of getting in perfect trim? Because we love sharing stories with our fellow Longboard Surfers? Because we love hearing stories about perfect waves being surfed around the world?
NO!! We do it
for the money!!
Did you know that when you donate to most charities, between 60%- 80% of what you send goes to administrative costs??! Not here! You send us $1 we'll get a bar of wax!! No processing fee here! You send us $5 That's 2 after surf tacos! Give til it hurts!!
We caught up with Santa in Hawaii, and had a lengthy conversation. Check it out here: Conversation with Surfing Santa
Joe Tabler's Surf Blurb:
From Sandy Hall: Bess Press will be reprinting her book co-written with Greg Ambrose. Shes asks for feedback: "Buddy Bess is wondering if people would prefer it as a hard bound book. (I would) Can we get some feedback from Surf Blurb readers please....." sandykhall@gmail.com
If anybody's coming to New York from overseas we recommend you check out Tours of Brooklyn. We went around with these guys one day and we saw some great parts of Brooklyn we didn't even know existed, and we're NY natives!!
We've been seeing more and more of our Longboard cousins checking in from all parts of the country and around the world. Click on the map and see where everybody is dropping in from. As always, we welcome our fellow Longboarders from around the country and around the world to join us in the Forums Section or send us some pics of the surf in your area, we'll put them up on the site!
The Longboard Collector Club was established in 1992 to promote the preservation of vintage surfboards and surf memorabilia. It provided an avenue to buy, sell, and trade items. Some of the members began surfing as early as the 1930’s, but most started in the 50’s and 60’s. Next Longboard Collector's Club meet April 25th at The Beach Cottages meeting in Pacific Beach, San Diego.
And here's something that came in, in the meantime:
Mike Jipp is helping the owner sell this Black Cat, untouched/never ridden/perfect in every way. about 10'0 mikejipp@harborside.com
From Joe Tabler's Surf Blurb:
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Show your New York or New Jersey Pride With These Great Local Bumperstickers!! $1.00 each or even better, 7 for $5.00
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When Ordering, Make Sure You Let Us Know Which Stickers.
If you are brand new to surfing, read Surfing Etiquette, print it and read multiple times. Nobody cares how good or bad you are, however they do care if you screw up there wave! Practice good etiquette' or better yet, take a Surfing lesson, it's a good investment. Make sure it's a school that teaches surf etiquette
Legendary photographer Leroy Grannis needs your help.
Eddie : photo Leroy Grannis / Legendary Surfers
Update on Granny (LeRoy Grannis) from Malcolm (malcolm@legendarysurfers.com ) :
Yes, LeRoy's fallen on harder times, but he's able to supplement his Social Security and MediCal with his retirement from the telephone company. He's had to go from an assisted-living situation to being looked after by his son John. The real question mark lies with his "estate," as a whole. It has been appraised at around $1 mil. So, to all those who have come forward to help right now, there really is no mechanism in place to fundraise for Granny. This situation may change and if and when it does, I will be sure to let you know ASAP. Likewise, any news about Granny's photo collection, I'll be sure to pass along. Meanwhile, Granny is still with us and still "taking visitors." Go by and visit him. He is still the same great person we all love and what he needs most is more visitors." Anyone wanting to visit, just email me back and I'll send you the contact information.
More well-known surfers/shapers/collectors to look for at Randy Rarick's Hawaiian Vintage Surf Auction July 17-18: Larry Bertleman, Greg Noll, Ben Aipa, collector Allen Kukel (has 1200 surf titles). http://www.hawaiian
Here is a black greg noll dacat for sale all original and came from the original owner who bought the board on the east coast in about 1966. size is 9'6 taking reasonable offers . mike jipp 541-996-7433
From Snake: Surfrider has two big events coming up in Ocean City, Maryland. June 6-7 is the 9th annual Longboard Team Challenge. It draws teams from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. It is held at 37th Street in front of the Castle in the Sand. June 19-21, will be Ocean city's annual Beachfest held at the OC Convention Center on 39th Street. Surfing exhibits will be at the convention center. http://www.surfrider.org/oceancity
AM Radio by EverClear, for anybody who was a product of the 70's, early 80's. They disabled the embedding code on the better video. This is the link to the better version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JEoFzvxiyI
Anybody with a good song suggestion, and what memory that song brings back , fire us an email. And all you young people born in the 80's and 90's, you're going to get introduced to a great archive of music.
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This site is dedicated to the wonderful and intoxicating sport that is surfing. It is also dedicated to the many Surfer Girls out there that gracefully glide among the waves finding a peace within their souls that only surfing can uncover.
We love surfing because it is an art as well as a sport. We love surfing because it is a sport that does not match an athlete to to another athlete...surfing is a match between a humbled surfer and the great Mother Earth.
We hope that you like our collection of links, stories, pictures, and valuable surfing information and find them to be helpful and inspiring to you. May you find all you are looking for among the waves!
Congratulations to the folks over at Surfer Girls for launching there new site. Took a look at the site and it looks great! We wish them the best of luck, definately worth giving a visit, just make sure you come back here!!
From Jeremy Oxenden:
The Stand Up Lorcher, er Launcher:
I just emailed to find out if this is an actual pic, not photo-shopped.
Not photo shopped! Surfing SUP and plank
Small surf this weekend in the barely rideable size. Longboard only stuff. Plus the water cooled down a bit after having warmed up nice. A couple of days of that north wind blew all that nice warm water out. We were trunking it on Friday, 3/2 on Saturday!!
From Jeremy Oxenden: Photo by Ron Romonsky, Bermuda:
Monday, June 22, Ryan Dobson will be interviewing Dean Plumlee the National Director of Christian Surfers United States at Kor Kast on Castle Rock Radio. Ryan heads up an exciting ministry call Kor with a weekly radio show. Check out Kor online. Also, be sure to tune in Monday at noon PST or 3pm for those east coasters. You can catch it all at Castle Rock Radio.
The focus is not good but these are two photos of some young guns that surf the rockaways from 1964 tru 1989. the Festa Brothers and Jim Friel we were service brats that had lived on the west coast and started surfing around age 8 and 12. The parents got transfered to Ft. ****** we would surf the empty beaches all year long. The two newer boards were 2nd gen. glass boards a GP Noserider and Plastic Fantastic. The 1975 photo is of Jim Friel at 96th street. It is now 2009 I live in Jacksonville Beach still surf everything long, short retro, prototype. whatever. youngest son is on the pro tour, and shapes for local shaper Clay Bennett. Thank For Posting these photos and if you can post if you remember these guys please contact Jim Friel at
From Jim Friel in Jacksonville Beach, Florida
