Potts's surfing is timeless, will easily still hold up today...just watched Bali Pro finals 25/05/2019. Potts's surfing would have seen him win today against Kanoa Igarshi...power, speed, flow...1987 or 2019 = timeless...Love your stuff Potts's. Also your observations today commentating in the quarters, semi's and finals was spot on...you nailed the pre-scoring and the competitors mistakes they were making....LEGEND my bra! Never ever forget your green and yellow lighting board flying through the air in Surfer..burnt in my 49 year brain for ever...and I am a bodyboarder, hehehe, go figure.
Still blows me away. Killing it. Pretty sure that's Uppers. Speed Flows with massive power hacks. Its beautiful. Anyone Remember the Massive Barrel he Pulled at Haleiwa in WWW3?
early 90's my bro Rob and I were walking down Salt Creek. It was small and glassy All were in spring suits or shorties. Except one "OMFG look at the "kook" Had on a bright "chill killer" ...a small set appered and all you could do was focus on the "kook".....those in the line up cupped ther ears(wtf) ..... A shock wave went across the water. Just two pumps backhand the sound berrier broke.................."holy shit .......Potter"
Wider, thicker, tail and rails and rolled vee. No stupid concaves. More volume=more speed power and flow. Geoff McCoy Nuggets are made today better then anything in the 80s and especially now, and, no, they are not retros. The whole idea behind a board with a wider tail then nose as used today, was invented by McCoy in the late 70s. The extreme wide tailed boards on the internet you see Cheyne Horan Holding were not standard Lazor Zaps, they didn't have the Zap logo on. They were experimental Astron Zots, which he does again today but all his new boards have been refined after all those years after he was screwed by Rippoff Curl and Quiksilver. They were little nothing brands that attached to McCoy, the biggest brand in all surfing back then. When Geoff saw all the corruption they were planning at their meetings to control the surf media and contests, instead of stay and be a super rich man right now, he chose to pull out and shape out of his shed. They got rid of him out of envy for changing the surfboard forever and having the hottest team riders. Cheyne in the late 70s made the free ride crew look like old men with his radical direction changes. Simon Anderson himself said that he took a McCoy board and put three fins on it. The thrust comes from the wide thick tail, not the dragging fins. They discredited his single fins to take away and keep control away fron Geoff McCoy. They omitted him from magazines and videos after that. They cheated his riders in contests. 1981 bells on the huge days, Cheyne was the only one to get barreled on huge waves and come out, two times in one heat. The final was held in smaller surf and cheyne was up against Simon. No way Simon could win against Cheyne. Another year he was in second he was in the last contest to determine it and P.T. , M.R. , Cheyne, and some one else was in it. P.T. took off on every wave inside of M.R. and held his leg, to signal to judges he gave the wave to M.R. . P.T. later wrote his biggest accomplishment that year was keeping Cheyne from the title, Cheyne was in a younger generation or age group then they. He was in Tom Carroll's age group. All to discredit McCoy. Quiksilver and RipCurl were nothing before McCoy. Sure they do hard turns today, but they don't have that continuous speed power and flow where they keep driving through the turn. They slide at the end or loose their speed and many times blow the section. They hop up and down in a frantic ugly butt wiggling style. McCoy's three fins today are better then the others available today. His single fins are even better but he's been black listed since the early 80s so you'll see these "Open Minded" "Soul Surfers" never ever ever ever try a McCoy, if they want to stay sponsored. McCoy is fine with that. He is word of mouth and grass roots. Surfing Is Hollywood controlled.
Nihil est in intellectu quid non fuerit prius in sensu. Well that's just a fantastic insight and I find every word to be quite believable. Thanks for that. So I should go hunt down a McCoy, is basically what you are saying?? I remember seeing a few of his shops around Cronulla. Seems to me that the current orthodoxy around surfing has been steered for many years by dickheads. Did you write all that?Thanks for taking the time too.
+Jonathan Halloran Yea. I went on a rant. I'm a Floridian in Florida USA. I have written so many high-performance boards. and I know how to surf. but I've never had the same feel as I have had on the McCoy. you just have to dial it in. if you're used to a high performance I would ask for the interchange nugget or maybe even the Splinter thruster. if you're good go about the same height aboard As You Are. I just really believe in his boards and how they work and feel. the bottom is shaped to the shape of the wave and it basically surfs itself. I know that sounds like a total lie but it's true. if you know how to bury the rail and do full on high speed turns there's nothing like it. now he offers them with removable fins. for my weight of 74 kilos I found that an interchange nugget with future boxes and JC one work really good and juicy waves and then larger fan in smaller waves. but I only write the single fins which are the gull fin. they go really fast. alot faster than anything. the hollower the better. you can also go really short and thick and wide with the Nuggets or even the Astron Zot. just stand back on it and it will not stop like other boards and just jam it off the back foot and after you start your turn then start looking toward the flats and then start looking toward the foam ball or wherever you want to go it is amazing how those boards ride being so thick. email Geoff and he will respond quickly he is very nice and down-to-earth he has fine-tuned his boards since the early days and they work a lot better.
+Jonathan Halloran Yea. I went on a rant. I'm a Floridian in Florida USA. I have written so many high-performance boards. and I know how to surf. but I've never had the same feel as I have had on the McCoy. you just have to dial it in. if you're used to a high performance I would ask for the interchange nugget or maybe even the Splinter thruster. if you're good go about the same height aboard As You Are. I just really believe in his boards and how they work and feel. the bottom is shaped to the shape of the wave and it basically surfs itself. I know that sounds like a total lie but it's true. if you know how to bury the rail and do full on high speed turns there's nothing like it. now he offers them with removable fins. for my weight of 74 kilos I found that an interchange nugget with future boxes and JC one work really good and juicy waves and then larger fan in smaller waves. but I only write the single fins which are the gull fin. they go really fast. alot faster than anything. the hollower the better. you can also go really short and thick and wide with the Nuggets or even the Astron Zot. just stand back on it and it will not stop like other boards and just jam it off the back foot and after you start your turn then start looking toward the flats and then start looking toward the foam ball or wherever you want to go it is amazing how those boards ride being so thick. email Geoff and he will respond quickly he is very nice and down-to-earth he has fine-tuned his boards since the early days and they work a lot better.
me and my brother Damon's favorite surfer. at least he was world champion once. his roundhouse cutbacks and sick aerials were his signature moves. Pottz 4 life.
great surfer great video great movie give us more of ww3 i have been looking for it for ages and thx alot btw im so happy to see him on asp live hes the man
His vertical snaps, busting through super thick lips already pitching from underneath and landing it while there was white water exploding up over head high was amazing.
