Fourth Ride's Not The Charm For Proneman

  

If you watch the last whitewater wave after the end of the fourth ride, you can see the debris of Roger's broken 9'6'' Velo Simmons washing in.

The aftermath...

From Proneman

 

Videos from fellow prone rider Steve G

50's Hull Surfing

 

1969 Australian Titles

 

Hard to watch due to poor photography, but there are some revealing moments none-the-less.

Simmons Board At Waikiki

 There was a quick flash of a guy riding a Simmons board at Waikiki in the 1960 short subject, Surf Riders.

 

 

 

What's really neat is how, when the rider needs to make a slight adjustment, he uses the big toe of his rear foot. This, on a board over 10 feet long, and weighing 50 pounds!
 

 

And there's a shot of what appears to be the same guy hoisting a Simmons up on his shoulder at the start of the full length film...with no less than The Royal Hawaiian in the background.

 

Surfing In The Sixties - Mona Boys

 

 

There's some interesting stuff in this documentary of the Mona Vale surf crew from Sydney...including 3 or 4 segments of early Nat Young.

RIP Joey Hamasaki

 

There's a nice piece on Joey from several years ago in The Surfer's Journal here...