What makes a surf culture?

There's differences in each type of area that really depend on the waves and the surfers and the boards that they ride.

Santa Barbara really is an important link.

You want to look at the accomplishments of people before us

and who were working off of Santa Barbara.

You're working off the ATER.

He's one of those original guys.

And one of the original dozen guys that

stepped off to do that and created the Surport industry.

And then you see this guy on a little red kneeboard carve an arc throwing spray back into the tube, then in the tube.

It's like a spaceman had landed.

It's that revolutionary. It's just like, whoa, what am I seeing?

The first time we saw vertical surfing, I just went, whoa, what am I seeing?

For the first time we saw vertical surfing.

I just went, I'm gonna do that standing up.

That's when the light kind of goes on about this green old guy, it's got something.

He was a hell of an influence on me.

I'd never really thought about surfing and turning back inside the barrel.

People were experimenting and the creative bubble was just simmering and surfing was part of that. Of course that's the way I developed the whole mystique of Channel Islands

was on better surfers, high performance boards.

The goodwill from this little town is spread all over the world. I think

a Rennie, I think of George, I think of Almeric craftsmen, people with a deep love for surfing,

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