Pipeline Masters 1984 Part 2 4th annual Pipeline Master Mark Richards Tom Carroll Michael Ho Shaun Thomson Joey Buran Mark Ochillupo Gerry Lopez Ronnie Burns Max Medeiros Dane Kealoha
What These guys are to surfing is like what jimmy Hendrix , the stones , the clash , SRV , LED zeppelin, Frank Zappa etc is to Music , Legends Thanks for posting , Respect ✊
What I would give to get back to these days this was the the day to be surfing no beach crowds just be at one with the elements and rip thanks for posting. 👍
It was surfed so different from back then . The opening salvo with the guy cutting back into the tube going in reverse was wild . That looked painful .
It’s humbling to see this soooo many years later. Though in my mid fifty’s I still surf occasionally but would guess most of these guys don’t anymore. I remembered all of the names though haven’t heard or said most of the, for over 35-40 years. I was in California when Mark Foo died at Mavericks in 94’. That was the only name I didn’t see here. Good stuff!
Where is that footage of Gerry Lopez side slipping down at least15' into a massive Pipeline barrel with that Jimi Hendrix ELECTRIC version of the tune..."I hear My Train a Coming"......? in the background...... the film played forward and in reverse in slow motion? over & over while Hendrix jammed that tune. The best surf film I ever saw and heard. I was in a theater in 1974/5, I think Ventura Theater in Ventura, CA and I can't remember the name of the movie. Its burned into my brain.
And it still is!!. He did way better once than that literal laybacks in the pocket snaps at massive pipeline. Go ahead and show me anybody that's doing that nowadays they don't. Show me some footage. Tom Carroll is a surfing God
obligatory North Shore quote: Rick: "Hey! Aren't you Alex Rogers?" Alex: "That's me... And this is my mate, Mark Occhilupo..." Rick: "Occhy!! *eye-rolls*
For those of you that made light ofJeff Crawford, hewon at least once and was well respected by the locals he was one of the crew that owned the pipe in the 70's and early 80's with the best of them Gerry Lopez, Rory Russell, Rick Rasmussen ( who was killed in New York on a drug deal gone bad) who was also form the east coast. He got pretty much scalped from the reef and then he went silent!! But he was all over covers of surfing and surfer magazine quite a bit. Rasmussen was on the cover of either surfer or surfing on what they said was the biggest wave at the pipe in years and he was barreled. He use to go to Uluwatu with Gerry and Rory and so did Crawford. Don't forget Kelly Slater is from same area as Crawford, Spanish house, Cocoa bch, Sebastion area. He is an East Coaster too.
Jeff Crawford won at least once and was well respected by the locals he was one of the crew that owned the pipe in the 70's and early 80's with the best of them Gerry Lopez, Rory Russell, Rick Rasmussen ( who was killed in New York on a drug deal gone bad) who was also form the east coast. He got pretty much scalped from the reef and then he went silent!! But he was all over covers of surfing and surfer magazine quite a bit. Rasmussen was on the cover of either surfer or surfing on what they said was the biggest wave at the pipe in years and he was barreled. He use to go to Uluwatu with Gerry and Rory and so did Crawford. Don't forget Kelly Slater is from same area as Crawford, Spanish house, Cocoa bch, Sebastion area.
Does anyone have tips on how to paddle out with an old single fin like these? I've been gifted a ~6'6" Robert August single fin and I freakin LOVE the thing, and I love it more and more the bigger and more powerful the waves get. Only problem is I can't duck dive it like my short boards and I'm having trouble when its really macking.
Zoom in closer.. you know, because Pipeline is the last place I'd like to see the wave itself. In fact, why not zoom in tighter and just have the guys wave their arms while someone splashes water on them.
Music is based on a bite from Van Halen's song "Panama", but they add clarinet, and alto sax and maybe a piccolo. This is the equivalent of snaking JOB at pipe, on a 10 foot elephant gun, and then paddling back out and telling him where to line up so it "doesn't happen again"
It's a damn shame the video quality is so bad. This is just epic footage of hall of fame surfers at pipe, legends all. The poor quality of the video transfer kind of kills it.
After watching these surfers , the boards are so clunky and cumbersome. From the look of it their is to much board out in from of them . To me they are finding it extremely hard to perform their manoeuvres . Don’t take me wrong they are all good Surfer’s, it’s just the boards .
