These guys truly were our heroes. "The Wounded Gull" MR, Shaun Thompson, Gerry Lopez, Ben Aipa (those new "Stinger" shapes)... What a great time to be a surfing teen. We were in SoCal, but our heroes were across the oceans. J-Bay always looked tremendous. Pipeline. Waimea, Sunset. We lived for Surfer and Surfing magazines.
MR and Shaun Thompson, classic!!! These guys along with Buttons, Bertleman, Lopez, Mark Liddel and many others. Only the best. Memories. I used to dream about surfing in class and draw surfboard shapes.
YES! All those names! Drawing waves with guys whacking the lip on my high school PeeChee folder. Lip smack, re-entry, hard bottom turn, step on the tail to stall just long enough for the barrel to grab 'em. High in the pocket, lean back with arms dropped at their side... so nonchalant, and deep in the pit. No 360's or floaters back then, just a style that was the bridge between the 60's longboarders and the 80's spastic shreddy-rippers. I remember some squirrely little 11 yr-old zinc oxide-cheeked grommet dropping in on me with his little potato chip board and going all spazzy epilectic- turns, turns, turns, poking at, and assaulting the wave like a skateboarder who put too much sugar on his Rice Krispies. I WAS local, lived 30 yards from the sand in Mission Beach and when I hollered at him for snaking me, he flips me off and squeals that his big brother was gonna pound me. I'm glad I got to experience the sport in the 70's when it was still dripping with soul. We surfed WITH the wave, not AT the wave.
I was out at Cottons just prior to the OP Pro and took off on an outside set, thought I had it all to myself, dropped in and S.T shoulder hopped me, gyrated some speed did a very quick cutback, looked at me, smiled and I cut out. Hell, the dude just flew in from J-Bay and he was a cool dude on top of it. He paddled back out to the line-up and I was on another wave coming at him, he paddled over and said "Thanks mate". Had a short conversation with him back out in the line-up and he was a very cool dude, very real unlike some of the other Pros in the water that week. This film when it was the real deal in 16mm is awesome! ST and MR were some of the very best tube riders at the time. Love these old films but the original footage is insane. Lynch is another cool dude along with M.R
Love this friendship MR and ST sharing a barrel,I surfed in the 70s on a single fin rounded square,then onto a twin fin,thruster and quad fin,so many memories of fantastic surf in Australia and the islands I Asia and the Pacific,just one with natures glory and the crystalline sea,shall I never forget so much fun,thanks mother earth.
Great surfers in the 70s. That move away from longboards started in the late 60s well underway by then. Not knocking longboarding, mix and match myself depending on conditions. I enjoy watching footage of surfers back then than any other era.
I never forgot that ride Shaun was ahead of his time and all done on a single fin nice he really did show us how tube riding was suppose to be done and locals gona hate on him sure he was better he was there competition taking over in there island and im an Islanders too but u gotta give it to him he was that good so was Mark , locals don't like outsiders coming there they don't even like locals coming to there spot so I salute these two legends well done 😁😁
Those Shawn OTW sessions were a seminal moment in surfing history - technically when I look at them now he was using his single fin like a thruster by that wide stance & using his rail as a third fin!
Dogbeach Surfkennel . . .completely agree with you. I saw Mark Richards compete in the early Eighties. He was a great surfer and World Champion for 4 years running! MR cleverly used the twin-fin surfboard UNTIL the tri-fin or "Thruster" took over from 1984 and onwards.
Mark Richards was the inspiration for riding twin fins then in 85 Simon Anderson showed off the Thruster aka tri fin that changrf board design till today
Hey Sloth Chuck, 90% of the action footage from "Bustin' Down the Door" , is from Free Ride made in 1977 . I still work with Bill Delaney - he's just not internet savvy and so bummed that its like the wild west on the web that he won't do anything... I've made almost 30 action sports videos. So if I sell you a VHS or DVD does that make it all right to put it on your 'Channel " and try and build your subscribers when all you did was rip off someone else's work they spent thousands upon thousands of dollars on. All that stuff from 19977 was 16mm film, not cheap to shoot , Like the Milliken Camera high speed water footage Merkel shot, and the hundreds of hours of unusable stuff that hits the cutting room floor. On top of that Bill paid for transfers to tape for editing , the soundtrack( all the artist got paid for their music) and the color grading, etc. I guess this is the age of stealing, poaching, rip-offs, and "catch me if you can" plain thievery. Doesn't make it right...he'd shit if he saw how shitty it looks on You Tube. This film is a great looking piece of work with deep colors and clarity. This knocked off copy shit doesn't do it justice...it the people who watch it here who are getting cheated out of seeing a great film...
I remember the 1st stubbies at Burleigh heads think shaun won that classic barrels and watching shaun at j bay blazing through impossibles he shit me off at time coz my girlfriend liked him more than me,,
The song is just horrible! It's absurd because there are so many good songs to put in a video with 70's surfing, not even fits... Anyway, the scenes are good...
These guys truly were our heroes. "The Wounded Gull" MR, Shaun Thompson, Gerry Lopez, Ben Aipa (those new "Stinger" shapes)... What a great time to be a surfing teen. We were in SoCal, but our heroes were across the oceans. J-Bay always looked tremendous. Pipeline. Waimea, Sunset. We lived for Surfer and Surfing magazines.
Yeah. Me also. Based in UK was problematic! We had Cornwall beaches only. Loved these guys!
Me too, 🤗
When i reflect in the beginning of surfing for me at 13 years of age,MR and ST were incredible surfers.
MR and Shaun Thompson, classic!!! These guys along with Buttons, Bertleman, Lopez, Mark Liddel and many others. Only the best. Memories. I used to dream about surfing in class and draw surfboard shapes.
Yep, these guys were our inspiration! My school note books were covered with surfboard designs and drawings of tube rides!
Don’t forget BK & Reno
YES! All those names! Drawing waves with guys whacking the lip on my high school PeeChee folder. Lip smack, re-entry, hard bottom turn, step on the tail to stall just long enough for the barrel to grab 'em. High in the pocket, lean back with arms dropped at their side... so nonchalant, and deep in the pit. No 360's or floaters back then, just a style that was the bridge between the 60's longboarders and the 80's spastic shreddy-rippers. I remember some squirrely little 11 yr-old zinc oxide-cheeked grommet dropping in on me with his little potato chip board and going all spazzy epilectic- turns, turns, turns, poking at, and assaulting the wave like a skateboarder who put too much sugar on his Rice Krispies. I WAS local, lived 30 yards from the sand in Mission Beach and when I hollered at him for snaking me, he flips me off and squeals that his big brother was gonna pound me. I'm glad I got to experience the sport in the 70's when it was still dripping with soul. We surfed WITH the wave, not AT the wave.
That shared tube ride is etched in the memories of every stoner kid that grew up surfing in the 70's, myself included. It's part of our DNA.
I was out at Cottons just prior to the OP Pro and took off on an outside set, thought I had it all to myself, dropped in and S.T shoulder hopped me, gyrated some speed did a very quick cutback, looked at me, smiled and I cut out. Hell, the dude just flew in from J-Bay and he was a cool dude on top of it. He paddled back out to the line-up and I was on another wave coming at him, he paddled over and said "Thanks mate". Had a short conversation with him back out in the line-up and he was a very cool dude, very real unlike some of the other Pros in the water that week. This film when it was the real deal in 16mm is awesome! ST and MR were some of the very best tube riders at the time. Love these old films but the original footage is insane. Lynch is another cool dude along with M.R
Shaun was raised to be a gentleman. His biography is inspiring.
two of the best surfers the world will ever see
Best tube ride with 2 surfers I have ever seen.Shaun right up his back....
Love this friendship MR and ST sharing a barrel,I surfed in the 70s on a single fin rounded square,then onto a twin fin,thruster and quad fin,so many memories of fantastic surf in Australia and the islands I Asia and the Pacific,just one with natures glory and the crystalline sea,shall I never forget so much fun,thanks mother earth.
Great surfers in the 70s. That move away from longboards started in the late 60s well underway by then. Not knocking longboarding, mix and match myself depending on conditions. I enjoy watching footage of surfers back then than any other era.
There will never be a time of greatness as that.
Love MR's long ride from 2:00 to 2:30 and how he set up the tube ride with a little stall/cutback halfway up the face. Just read the wave perfectly.
Love watching MR move. Its so beautiful.
The magic surfing years of Lightning Bolt and Town & Country
NICE!! That freaking rocked!! Love your addition of Waterfront from Simple Minds which was the perfect choice on this and the first Performers movie!
For the Dogtown and Z 1:07 Boyz Larry Bertelman and Buttons were a huge influence and doing things so radical on heavy waves.
Shaun Thompson was my example as a Surfer. He was Mu inspiration in Mu begining.
Those two guys pretty much owned the North Shore in their heyday. So enjoyable to watch.
I never forgot that ride Shaun was ahead of his time and all done on a single fin nice he really did show us how tube riding was suppose to be done and locals gona hate on him sure he was better he was there competition taking over in there island and im an Islanders too but u gotta give it to him he was that good so was Mark , locals don't like outsiders coming there they don't even like locals coming to there spot so I salute these two legends well done 😁😁
total legends
Those Shawn OTW sessions were a seminal moment in surfing history - technically when I look at them now he was using his single fin like a thruster by that wide stance & using his rail as a third fin!
So awesome as I grew up on the North Shore!
Muchas gracias surfing
Dude...that's how surfing is done!
Mark Richards remains the most stylish surfer ever. His stance should be the model for all. End bowlegged surfing now!
Dogbeach Surfkennel . . .completely agree with you. I saw Mark Richards compete in the early Eighties. He was a great surfer and World Champion for 4 years running!
MR cleverly used the twin-fin surfboard UNTIL the tri-fin or "Thruster" took over from 1984 and onwards.
He was definitely stylish. But my vote goes to Jerry Lopez.
@@alann5003lopez god having fun just lord of the waves
One of my favorite clips on youtube. I also like gerry lopez uluwatu and nias, biggest brownest barrels
Dane Kealoha was my all time favorite power surfer 🔥⚡️⚡️🤙🏽
In the 70@s this was very advanced!
Poetry in motion.
Music rocks!
Awesome!
Shaun the GOAT of Back door pipe. On a single fin. If he was on a 6'4" Quadie, he'd be doing 360's in the tube.
I love thes
Finally....a surf video I didn't have to mute.
Epic!
Look at how he made that lightning bolt ⚡️strike
Ride on Richards! Great surfer, better dude!
Demais!!!
Mark Richards was the inspiration for riding twin fins then in 85 Simon Anderson showed off the Thruster aka tri fin that changrf board design till today
Can I use some of this footage for a documentary on Spider Murphy, surfboard shaper for Shaun Thompson?
epic.
The good Old days , nowadays it's airs , the same shit that's done on a skate board ramp !
Very wellllllll
Look yo the word ‘Retro’ in the dictionary. You will clearly see a pic of Mark Richards
M.R The Wounded Gull!!!
Lightning bolt ; cool boards in the day .
did you see the wounded gull?
Shaun Thompson.....South African !!!!!
Bustin down the door!
Shaun Tomson
Mark Richards is a babe!
That's surfing .. how it should be .. .. On the wave !!
2:00 to 2:30 Honalua Bay.
THIS IS SURF!!!
`some takes at jefreys bay?
Fabio , where did you get this footage, I have a TV show and I'd like to buy some of it off you. I've got a budget of $2000 - can you set me up?
Dave DeMaio Its from the movie bustin down the door. I'd imagine you'd have to contact the producers of that.
Hey Sloth Chuck, 90% of the action footage from "Bustin' Down the Door" , is from Free Ride made in 1977 . I still work with Bill Delaney - he's just not internet savvy and so bummed that its like the wild west on the web that he won't do anything... I've made almost 30 action sports videos. So if I sell you a VHS or DVD does that make it all right to put it on your 'Channel " and try and build your subscribers when all you did was rip off someone else's work they spent thousands upon thousands of dollars on. All that stuff from 19977 was 16mm film, not cheap to shoot , Like the Milliken Camera high speed water footage Merkel shot, and the hundreds of hours of unusable stuff that hits the cutting room floor. On top of that Bill paid for transfers to tape for editing , the soundtrack( all the artist got paid for their music) and the color grading, etc. I guess this is the age of stealing, poaching,
rip-offs, and "catch me if you can" plain thievery. Doesn't make it right...he'd shit if he saw how shitty it looks on You Tube. This film is a great looking piece of work with deep colors and clarity. This knocked off copy shit doesn't do it justice...it the people who watch it here who are getting cheated out of seeing a great film...
Got to watch it but .
You don’t see style like this these days. Just a bunch of airs.
👍 BRONZED AUSSIES☆
way to use 80's clips and music in a video titled "Mid 70's surf heroes" oh well whos keeping track anyway.
Searching for "surfer girls 70s" this is third from top. That thin huh?
Tengo una tabla de shoan tomson para vender
I'd say late 70's early eighties surf heroes .
Mark Richards is bigger than INXS!
Next one to like hits the 808 like number
Party wave.
I remember the 1st stubbies at Burleigh heads think shaun won that classic barrels and watching shaun at j bay blazing through impossibles he shit me off at time coz my girlfriend liked him more than me,,
Michael Peterson won the first Stubbies .
Simple Minds
The song is just horrible! It's absurd because there are so many good songs to put in a video with 70's surfing, not even fits... Anyway, the scenes are good...
Agree it doesn't fit . Great song but .
Shaun Thompson and Mark Richards you're way better than Kelly Slater will ever be it's about Style not tricks
ah. no p in that last name..........
Shaun likes Tomson better....
MR surfs like a chick.