All respect to Joe,BUT, Tom Hoye came to Australia in late 1970 with a " twin fin" that had keels and a blunt nose and a wide square tail.Bottom was flattish....LOOKED exactly like this 2006 design called a MS.Joe may have called his board a MiniSimmons but I rode the same or extremely similar shape back then.

What a time to be alive - the golden age of surfing - the best age! 1940s - 1970s. So much innovation and freedom!

Awesome history lesson on Gordon and Smith in Pacific Beach.

Mind Expansion

This is a great interview with my old friend. Floyd and Larry hired me in 1969 to be their world wide rep for G&S. I learned a lot from both of them.

Vast Oceanic Roots

pass thru the abyss

Voyage inside the minds eye!

Voyage inside the minds eye.

sephirot

Yeeeaahhh Driftttinn!!

Joe was a great guy and great shaper, he passed away this past winter down in Costa Rica while windsurfing. His Mini Simmons are so fun to ride, he will be missed

Hang ten maaan.

Good video Chuck

I have a 9'6" custom 62 GS hanging on my wall. It's my pride and joy.

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RIP Joe.

With utmost respect, I need to ask : The dictionary describes the word / title Inventor as " A person who invents some new process, appliance, machine or article. " An invention includes any and every usable product or process in any form. Pretty much " everything ". At least, that's how I perceive it. Again , with utmost respect, I feel that regardless of the fact that his then highly futuristic surfboard design , breaking new ground with his brilliant concept of retaining long board width his vastly shorter lengths - were not at the time in 1949 , around 1949 , early 1950s - was not as far as I know entitled MINI SIMMONS , it was , is Bob Simmons - who I personally would refer to and title as the lnventor. Importantly, I mean to take nothing away from the recent extending further of the original Bob Simmons surfboard design as I describe above because by doing this, it has made the Bob Simmons original concept - the original INVENTION - more rideable, more responsive for today's surfboard riding requirements. That is a giant step forward. But it relies on the original idea and the person who originally INVENTED this product. And as far as I have researched and can only tell through written , documented account , the ordinal inventor was Bob Simmons.

Bout to cop me one of these 🏄

I actually ride a 9 foot soft top board and I fuckin love it. Bit heavier but I'm a bit careless when jumping off the board, and it never hurts me, and never dings. I think they ride nice too. Always fun to turn heads by shaking peoples expectations on how much the board can move.

sick! i just started on a 6'2 that ive had as a child (hand me down), loads of fun. I want a long board so i can do shit like that. looks super steezy.

Hella Dope Gig !!!

LOL WTF IS THAT

superb !!!

The name of the first song?

So jealous....

Cool

yeahhhhhh coool

Rebelution is the ish!

Fucking awesome. The dudes at 1:21 wish they could tear up the surf like that.

Cool!

nice suit but you style is wacckkk

yea me too!

Good point!! I bought an Ezera 7'1" and the back box had to be gutted out and fixed. Your so right about quality box's. Thank you for your input. I hope the rest of the viewers take into consideration your knowledge :)

u missed a major part mate. u need to check the fin boxes. I have bought so many boards with messed up fin boxes it's not even funny

Hello! We met at the awesome "Woodies on the Wharf!" What a great display with your surf boards! A fabulous event! Check out my blog with photos of you and many of the woodies at: Wishing you much success!

sick!!!!

GREAT SHOW!!!

Gilgamorph!!!! wazup doggy some psychedic shit here glad you still do your thang.... ¨Ptethacreep wuz here¨

wooooooooooo

Super sick ish!! Props

obtain the light ascending tree root staircases sacred chants and rants projecting eternal breath striking tones from the cosmos hallowed bones we are where workers of the spectrum cast spells in kaleidoscopes .....keep the hovercraft flying !

this is some proper esque and I say the world needs more of it.

Way to psychedelic! Time shifter and earth shaper!

cool bro.

Nice sky...we had one like the too.

Its at the Shores

Is this in san diego?

its an eskimo roll you quimp \/

thats a turtle dive !