Born in the early 1940s, George Greenough is a surfing legend, acknowledged the world over as the man who changed the way we ride surfboards, with his very own designs. Designs that were not a rip off of someone else’s ideas, but moreso, just a practical reality that turned into a revelation at the time when people were riding heavy DFin longboards built for nose riding.
George Greenough was riding in the tube, with a camera on his back in 1969 and filming it, in the dark. People didn’t really start riding in the tube until years later, let alone film their tube rides!
above: George Greenough on set for Big Wednesday, photo by Dick Hoole.
Greenough was riding lightweight boards (spoons) under 5 foot long, weighing less than a modern shortboard, when the most high performance surfers were riding boards that weighed 30 pounds and were over 9 feet long. It doesn’t stop. Greenough doesn’t stop. He is still making waves and adding more interesting ideas to surfing, photography, boat designs and anything else that he is interested in.
If we talk the history of surfing, I think most people would have Greenough in their top 5 contributors and possibly the most influential surfer alive today (2020).
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Photo by George Greenough. That is the first dorsal fin in Australia and it was...
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Photo by George Greenough Please feel free to contact us if you have specific size...
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Children of the Sun will stir memories of the happiest days in any surfers life......
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Photo by George Greenough from his 35mm masterpiece 'Dolphin Glide'. This is one of our best...
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Photo by George Greenough from his 35mm masterpiece 'Dolphin Glide'. This image prints well upside down...
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Photo by George Greenough from his 35mm masterpiece 'Dolphin Glide'. Please feel free to contact us...
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Photo by Albert Falzon of George Greenough surfing, pushing the envelope in the late 1960s....
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AC: When you showed ‘On Any Morning’ in theatres in early 1970s, and went on...
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SwitchFoot - The Other Side of Surfing 1960-1976 256 pages, hardbound. *There were 2000 of...
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This is one of a handful of surfing films we stock...because it is simply a...