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Post by Taildragger on Feb 9, 2024 20:18:53 GMT -5
This footage holds up for me far better than most from that era:
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Post by satele on Feb 10, 2024 0:57:29 GMT -5
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 10, 2024 11:54:32 GMT -5
I saw an article about Cactus in Surfer's Journal awhile back. Before that, I'd never heard of it. I've mostly surfed in California, with short stints in Hawaii, Mexico, New York and Florida. Never did make it down to Oz and probably never will, but it looks like there's no shortage of high-quality waves (and, unfortunately, crowds) down there. My most recent board, a 7'5" channel-bottom twin keel, was shaped by Simon Jones in Byron Bay. It's the first shorter board I've ridden since I went back to riding longboards (which is what I started on in 1961) during the 1990s. I got interested in the design after seeing VIDs of your compatriot Torren Martyn riding them:
The mid-7-foot, wide-point-forward, gun-tailed single-fins in that first clip I posted sure brought back memories. Rode a lot of those boards before MR made a splash with his twins. After that, it was all twins and thrusters til I went back to longboards. |
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 10, 2024 13:46:37 GMT -5
BTW, satele, when I click on it, your link just goes to a blank page for me.
If I paste the entire link into my "go" bar and click, it comes right back to this thread.
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Post by 6l6 on Feb 11, 2024 16:51:27 GMT -5
I've never surfed and at the age of 78 I don't have any plans to start.
However... I think it looks like the coolest sport of all if you know how to do it. And then I'd add on kite surfing as well!
I live on the Pacific ocean just a couple miles from Mavericks where they hold the World Surfing Championships. And on down Highway 1 towards Santa Cruz you can always find kite surfers as well around Waddell Beach.
It just looks like incredible fun even if you're sharing the water with a major population of Great White Sharks. They call this area "The Red Triangle" named after the color of blood and the sharks...
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 11, 2024 17:07:08 GMT -5
even if you're sharing the water with a major population of Great White Sharks Thank you, Marine Mammal Protection Act: set the table and they will be fruitful and multiply. |
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Post by Laker on Feb 11, 2024 18:28:15 GMT -5
Back in ‘66 I did a little body surfing around San Diego on a week end run down from Fort Ord. I don’t know if that counts for surfing.
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 11, 2024 18:33:18 GMT -5
Just about everybody who has board surfed body surfed first, so you're on Laker!
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Post by satele on Feb 12, 2024 0:02:15 GMT -5
Hi TD...that's strange, re the link...just tries it and works, here....
Cactus is hard work...half way across the south coast of Oz...probably an 8, to 10 hour drive from Adelaide...middle of nowhere and stunningly beautiful! We did it in approx '76...a huge adventure, back then!
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 12, 2024 0:18:05 GMT -5
The original body surfers (and true "locals"):
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Post by revtones on Feb 12, 2024 12:21:05 GMT -5
I did in the 60's and early 70's. Rhode Island(Matunuck,Naragansett)shore break. Used a Greg Noll Cat Board about 9 feet long. Early 70's in Santa Cruz at Steamer Lane,Five mile,Pleasure Point and Manresa. Saw a fin at a point break at Point Reyes with a friend and the fin turned toward us. Last time on a board.
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Post by Taildragger on Feb 12, 2024 12:29:29 GMT -5
Point Reyes isn't far from Tomales Bay, which is basically a shark nursery. A bit further south, Stinson Beach and Duxbery Reef are also sharky, as are most river mouths north of San Francisco.
I had a "close encounter" down in Big Sur at Plaskett Creek. I was getting ready to duck dive a clean-up set wave when a "big boy" cruised up the face of the wave a few feet in front of me. Not ashamed to admit that I experienced extreme sphincter pucker and rode the next wave in to the beach.
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Post by revtones on Feb 14, 2024 20:08:26 GMT -5
Taildragger; Iv'e had "feelings" while surfing that "they" were there. Creepy..
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