Showing posts with label tom curren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tom curren. Show all posts

Sunday, February 19, 2023

ALTERNATIVE SURF CRAFT - The Movie

 

I always love a good surf movie. Let's check out ALTERNATIVE SURF CRAFT together.. Let's get to it: 


- FULL SURFING MOVIE "ALTERNATIVE SURF CRAFT" Alternative Surf Craft profiles the surfers who make their own path riding unique and alternative surf craft away from the mainstream shortboards. Surfer magazine says of Trevor Gordon, "Trevor Gordon surfs Rincon the way God intended. With flow, trim, and grace. You can surf with those qualities and rip huge turns, like Tom Curren". Alex Knost


Thursday, January 5, 2023

Time Traveling to Wild Australia


Sometimes I wish I could time travel and go surf a spot back when it looked more like this... Check it out:


I did this a long while ago with Sean Doherty talking about some of the history I filmed back in early my years. Starting off with Bells 81 when I got my first professional gig shooting the Bells Rip Curl Pro & the Coke Surfabout at Narrabeen where Simon Anderson dominated & Dee Why Point when this kid from South Africa Martin Potter beat Mark Richards. It also features vision from the Beaurepairs competition at Sydneys Cronulla Beach with Tom Curren and a very young Mark Occhilupo. There's footage from the Stubbies, the 1983 SWELL from North Narrabeen with Tom Carroll ruling. Then to Merewether Newcastle where its good as it gets. The edit includes the definitive heat with Occy verse Curren at Bells, maybe one of the greatest heats in the ASP history. Then the Bells SKINS event where Occy won big $$$ and a car. Then we move in the future like 15/20 years ago when aerial surfing become the deal. We see Dean Morrison absolutely dominate Kirra. Kelly Slater with hair ripping Bells & Tom Carroll at the Opera House. Then moving back into the future with this new spot called Shipstern Bluff with a young Koby Abberton, Marty Paradisis and Mark Mathews. Then Michael Lowe at Mini Pipe then Slater at Deadmans in Sydney. Finishing up with some old home movie footage from my beginning in 1979/80 from my home town area of Yorke Peninsula. Enjoy.


Friday, September 5, 2014

Curren's Foam Ball Creedling (via the Surfer's Journal)

By TSJ

"He was all about the pedicure," laughed photographer Shawn Parkin after his first-ever trip with Tom Curren. Arriving in southern mainland Mex in the dead of summer, the heat was nearly unbearable and Curren, being the savvy traveler he is, sought refuge in the only air-conditioned place he could think of: a salon. When he wasn't being pampered, Curren and fellow traveler Tyler Warren put a variety of unique planing hulls to good use, drawing clean lines and parking it on the foam ball when they couldn't stand the sun any longer.