consult, when kelly was 8 he rode a fish shaped sponge, didnt get on a real board, a salick till he was 9, so your time frame is way off. might have been his ol bro sean or dave speir. wasnt me or ohare cuz we r gooofies! and didnt throw it out the back till @ least 11 i promise, i was there

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tubes, doobs, and boobs: thats the american way and id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy!

i luv all your memories and clay, dougie, and crawford r some of my favs, but what about valuzzi and claude, and r u telling me mark rhoades was one of your best sessions ever cuz i must rebuke and ask u 2 get eye tested fully!

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tubes, doobs, and boobs: thats the american way and id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy!

Hey kid! Yup, I too was living in the 14-16th street surf ghetto in the '77 time frame. I used to ride a 7' single fin swallow tail shaped by Jim Shipley (How's that for a name from the past?) flame airbrush by Bruce Williamson. And I hope your mom still isn't P.O.'d at me and Billy Walker teaching you "Roll me over in the clover" when you were about 4. Do you remember DCB shaping some crazy looking board in the morning, glassing it at noon and riding it in the afternoon? He didn't even knock the sharp edges off!! T Smith on that 5'9" 16" wide single fin that he made...that only he could even stand up on? All of us (Walker, Webster Bros, T Smith, Jim Bird, your pops and me) keeping an eye on YOU when you'd paddle your skinny ass out on a hurricane swell? Most of us were goofyfoot, so I guess you just figured it was the only way to ride.

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Jim Shipley ... CLASSIC!
He ran Catri's Shaggs Surf Shop up on da pier for a while, remodled van interiors (wood paneling, double bed, 8 track player, lotsa speakers, shag carpet everywhere), made boards ... and did a lotta stuff I can't mention here.

He was cool and always good to me.

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I've got the neighbor's Shipley in my garage. Kinda beat, he repaired it with "boat resin". Needs work.

Does it have the hand drawn outline of the State of Florida on it? Doesn't have a flame airbrush on it, does it?

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Edited: 04/27/2010 at 11:05 AM by eibla

Yeah...Jim was a piece of work? He became a Jehovah Witness ya know. He left town around 1980 for N. Carolina and about 3 years later I bumped into him again in Cocoa Beach and asked why he came back. Apparently it was coming up on the "End of Days" according to the Jehovah's and after Armageddon only Jehovah's would be left on earth and he was going to claim Cocoa Beach!! I sh!t you not, that's what he told me.

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Cool..I had Jim make a board for me around 74..FLA outline on the deck. dude was definitly a classic.

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So if you are a surfer I wish you the prosperity that allows you more time to pursue the salt water dream, and the true happiness that comes from warm water, clean waves and the companionship of your fellow surfers. If you are an internet troll just spewing bs then f off.

I'm adding a guy named Gary Hollaway from Jax to my list. I surfed with this guy in Nica last week.....Absolute king of the barrel. I never saw anyone make more critical take offs and get so deep for so long at Colorodos.

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So if you are a surfer I wish you the prosperity that allows you more time to pursue the salt water dream, and the true happiness that comes from warm water, clean waves and the companionship of your fellow surfers. If you are an internet troll just spewing bs then f off.

JBD .... you sure that was not David Hollaway?

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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell

"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.

"I will always remember to forget about you" - Tom Waits


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

Well yea...but you see he sometimes goes by the name of "Gary Hongos" Its a nickname he has picked up. Do you know him? ( you are correct his real name is David Hollaway) Surfed with him down in Nica...dude kills it. super good guy also!!!

If you know him ask him how he got his nickname.

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So if you are a surfer I wish you the prosperity that allows you more time to pursue the salt water dream, and the true happiness that comes from warm water, clean waves and the companionship of your fellow surfers. If you are an internet troll just spewing bs then f off.

Do not know him all that well ... I lived in NE Fla for close to 20 years and met him through a couple of groups and contests that I was involved with. He is a former East Coast Champ and does rip.

I had seen several vid clips of him in Nic on a report site in Jax Bch and the people at The Surf Sanctuary told me that David was spending a lot of time in Nic, at Dale Dagger's place

I stayed with Daggers back in the early 90's when he was getting the Nic gig off the ground. That was back before any of the other surf camps had sprung up. He is a real piece of work. While I do not know the origins of the nickname ..... if it got "hung" on him by one D Daggers ... I could venture a guess.



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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell

"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.

"I will always remember to forget about you" - Tom Waits


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

Edited: 06/01/2010 at 09:21 PM by LBLarry

Dale is a fantastic surfer and the only 4A rated surfer ever to come from Orlando. He had an unusual style but would so deliberately carve up the surf and was so smooth down the line. One of the nicest guys I have ever met. I lost touch with him and his brave struggle with Cancer, Dale , I am thinking how cool it was to surf so much with you!!

14th/15th street, circa 75-78, valuzzi, claude, dcb, tim briers, and a lil known named max roever, (crystal's brother), and two teens by the name of todd braley and tom black. when i was a grom, those guys were my idols!

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tubes, doobs, and boobs: thats the american way and id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy!

Hey! You left out Tommy Smith and me!

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

sorry, also Albie, TS, and billy webster and some guy from NY named Wes that lived with sean and dan murphy, da Yankee brothers, and good ol' floyd foist took the best shots of em all and  had the best slide shows back when i was a kid. in this info/tech overload of the  new millenium, i really miss the thrill, anticipation, and hoots and hollers of a slide show. i still think a gr8 surf photo is tenfold better than an hour of film,... oops, its video, sorry. im getting old!  Col.

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tubes, doobs, and boobs: thats the american way and id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy!

Not ANYWHERE near as old as me.

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

as far as the best ive surfed with of any era/style, and this is in order, 1. kelly slater 2. bruce valuzzi 3. justin "da sarge" carver 4. Claude "CC rider" codgen 5. kelly slater, just cuz he should be twice in any surfers top 5. the kid is touched by the glove!!!!   Col.     PS: thanks kelly for bringing surfing 2 what it is and getting it and us the respect surfing deserves!!!  SV

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tubes, doobs, and boobs: thats the american way and id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy!

whoa, Max? i was friends with Max.. we rode the same bus, fished, and were in ROTC together...he was a gifted artist as well. surfed 14st together... lots of good memories, and i left town before things went south for him. I should be linking up with Christel soon. I'll tell her u said hello.

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And Bob will ALWAYS be my numero uno. -Tiffanys

crystal used 2 babysit me, and if u were around then, remember pat norris, hunter, john abernaty, jonjon oldham and his bro sunny! i lived at 1440 s atl. i grew up watching some of the best surfing of the 70's in my backyard. i luv crystal! she took me 2 many of my 1st contests as a grom! tell her sean volland said hello! pre military, max, bruce, b. wolfe, dcb, briers, wes, b. weismeller, albie, claude, my dad, and a few others put on the raddest display, (at da time), of performance surfing in spring/summer of 77', as i was an aspiring grom of 8, that ive ever seen!

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tubes, doobs, and boobs: thats the american way and id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy!