1960s Greg Noll Search for Surf ​

Another contribution from Kyle Metcalf
Kimo Doole shared this short video about Greg Noll.

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  • We forget that his birth name was Greg Lawhead but shortly changed to Greg Noll after his mother remarried; Noll was the name of his stepfather.
  • We forget that he visited Hawaii in 1956 and convinced his parents that he should attend his 1957 senior year at Waipahu High School so he could surf.
  • We forget that he filmed surfing along with the likes of Bruce Brown and Bud Browne in an attempt to promote his fledgling surfboard business in Hermosa.
  • We forget that he with a few others took the Malibu Chip surfboards to Australia, boards made of balsa that when stacked on the beach at Malibu looked like a pile of potato CHIPS.

In this film he mentions Dave Rochlen at Malibu who would later move to Hawaii, marry Rabbit Kekai's ex-wife Keanuenue, and open the Surf Line store on Piikoi and start the Jams World clothing business.

  • And we forget the kind words he had for the generation of big wave surfers that came behind him. James Jones, Brock Little, Clark Abbey and etc.

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