These films helped ALOT of people get big in their careers . From the bands like Offspring , Sublime ,unwritten law , Strung out , Pennywise etc. And these surfers as well. Taylor Steele knew how to pick Talent. Momentum1&2, Focus, G-times were videos that can never be beat in my opinion. Also Kids today are still trying to copy the turns , airs and blow tails in these videos. Thanks Taylor Steele and crew for the years of inspiration and just plain awesome videos!
My wife yelled "So your going to be a 50 year old surfer" at me in a packed restaurant, like it was a Bad thing. She has no fukn clue. Hell yes i am till the day i die. Great Video,
The oldest, maybe I should say youngest was a guy surfing off coast of Oceanside in 76 during Hurricane Katherine's 2nd day. We were volunteers doing a sweep of a section of the beach to make sure no one was in trouble, especially surfers. He was 68 and looked and moved like he was 30. He was in a thirty foot barrel for what seemed like forever. Disappeared twice and thought he got axed but he made it and rode his board almost all the way to the shore. Shortly after that I talked to him and I suggested he not try that again or he might end up in Hawaii. He said that was his last thing on his to do list(no bucket list term then). Wish I had a camera that day.
Momentum II was the first video I watched when I started surfing in HS. These guys were a key part of my surfing awakening in Orange County. The nostalgia!
We imported these VHS tapes in Scotland when I was a grom. Eventually I managed to get a signed (by Taylor) box set that I bought in a surf shop in Bundoran, Northern Ireland. It cannot be overstated how influential and important these movies were and still are.
I watched momentum a thousand times in the early ninties, my favorite surf film by far, had a big impact on me as i was 13 or 14 when this came out, the surfing the music, it was a sick time to be a surf mad grom
Brilliant vid - inspiring, and great to see such friendship and camaraderie built up over the years with some great surfing history among them and reflection by the chaps on when they are older what they will be doing and their priorities. Well done Kelly, quoting him: "the 60's will be the new 40's. One thing is for sure - they will all still be ripping it out there and loving what surfing offers !
Ohhh....... The NOSTALGIA Huurrrrrrts!!!!! This brings back the memories so hard!!! I was the same age as these guys, but diff country - we watched them religiously, and they were inspirational to us and our surfing. We ended up competing with some of the at Kuta beach in 1992, Scholastics. Good memories... Hold onto and enjoy this age, you young surf loving men and women - I look back and I can truly say they were golden moments in my life, and I even knew it then, so go hard you young people!
Love the throwback music here. Man, you hear how surfings changed but to be honest for people like us just watching the comp's don't see that huge of a shift. But watching this behind-the-scenes stuff does make you think "do the guys currently competing have this sort of camaraderie shown here? Is this where all that change is occurring? Behind the scenes?" Sounds like even though the industry was making money back then, it wasn't exactly all formulaic how videos parts and shit needed to be done with sponsorships and branding. There seemed to be a lot more room to just have fun and not worry about the money part.
some of us old timers were living out of a van, never had jobs, going from place to place and loved it. at least I did until I hit 25. damn arthritis has interfered with my riding. oh well I can still watch the vids and see dudes in person.
If you take up surfing when you are 12 and continue till you're 50 you will move many times, change girlfriends many times, change wives a few times, change houses a few times, change jobs a bunch of times, maybe even change countries a couple of times - but I'll bet you 5 dollars you'll still be surfing - and maybe with one of your surviving surf buddies. And you will keep doing it as long as you 10. That's what I did and I'm 62.
Would have loved to of heard more from Taylor Steele. I mean, the "momentum" it must have taken for him to build his chops at the same time he's blowing up? I find that equally as impressive as the surfing/surfers. Hardcore effort on all levels.
@2:22 That's Dropknee Legend Paul Roach knocking around Kelly. Future Kings in their respective practices. This doesn't show the whole match but it's pretty classic. Good stuff right here mate.
9 years later...Kelly is still hunting world titles. Rob is still having the most fun. Shane is still charging the biggest waves. Ross is coaching the current best in the world. Taylor still has an 8 pack.
I decided to watch this immediatly after watching Momentum 1 and 2, its so epic! I uploaded the full movies to momentum and more of taylor classic's so you guys can enjoy too !
@William Hosbein Don't you feel kinda like a piece of shit spamming this cool reunion vid? Or maybe there's some connection. What? Is this the drone Taylor or someone else in the vid uses now? I don't know. You just spam-posted at the end of every comment like a loser.
You can only watch it once....SO TRUE, that film would dissolve...Great memories for some alot of jealousy for others...Cause they would shake your hand ect, then not include you.
Julian Uribe I understand now. I'm going to purchase a surf board and learn to surf. by the way it looks it must be really fun to do. I wanna learn so bad!!!! All I do skate board it's time for something different now.😃😃
