Gerry Lopez discovered Uluwatu - From Chasing The Lotus Film

[@ashanauluwatu1467]

I was 11 years old that time in 1975, my father was aboard Carier so he told me about the visit of gerry dipandang rorry. Wayan tekes was the one who carried gerry's surboards and Wayan baru was the one for rorry. In 1988 i continued my father's job AS board Carier and I SAW my self gerry and rorry very often surf at uluwatu and padang padang. Gerry and Russell found the Uluwatu surf. Now I am not carry board any more but i build a hotel at Uluwatu called ASHANA uluwatu hotel

[@mouzaimohamed670]

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[@user-ov3su7ng8k]

You live on the most beautiful place on earth .

[@primemarketing7218]

wow luar biasa, 👍👍👌👌

[@slowdown3415]

I'll check it out next time

[@legentilhommedefortune]

Went surfing in Bali in 88 , slept in the warungs on the cliff of ulu , saw it breaking way bigger I could handle ; went down on the bamboo ladders? got few good ones & many cuts , great memories !!

[@megaworldasia360]

First time I was in Bali was October 76. Had a few sessions at Ulu's and Padang while Lopez and McCabe were there. One memorable session at Padang was when the tide got real low and everyone except those two left the water. It was amazing to watch them getting so deep in those barrels breaking over super shallow reef. Both great surfers of that time. I went to Bali after I'd been to Nias and Ulu's for me, being a natural foot, just didn't compare. Lagundi in 76 had no buildings on the point and just 3 Losmens in the village at the bottom of the bay. Had a few sessions with just 5 guys in the water and even had one surf on the outside point with a crazy dude from Sydney. I often wondered if we were the first two who surfed the outer point at Nias? A scary wave with that close out section at the end. Taking off was balls in your throat stuff because you could clearly see the reef through the crystal clear water as the face dredged up underneath you. Great memories and thankful to have made it there before the place became known.

[@thelastrebelshow1627]

I lived in Hawaii when all this was happening, I was 14 -15 years old. These guys were my heroes. Still love lightning Bolt boards. 🤘

[@MegaBbqbbq]

I was 17 in '72, wait and wait and wait for a new Surfer magazine to see those guys.

[@gummball]

The surf, that music and those beautiful flowing lines of the surfers...

[@loontil]

aint like that now.....went in '98 - was pretty good, then again in 2000, 2004, 2006, 8, 13, 19...last three times were rubbish...will never go back...thousands of non-balinese living there, traffic, formerly 2nd, 3rd division surf breaks packed...cheesy instagrammable bars...tragic...would've loved to have gone there in 70s - 90s

[@davejohnsen8540]

Before quads, rash guards, and sunscreen...and you rolled a joint in your frisbee!

[@ccdrones974]

I went in 98 or 99 I got a wave halfway up the reef and raced down race tracks and it just kept peeling forever. Ulus today is just a zoo. Sad we can’t rewind time and experience 75 ulus

[@jamesbadham9665]

Jerry Lopez did not discover Ulu. It had been surfed for years before he got there.

[@Hotwire_RCTrix]

These legends are made with 8mm film. Gerry was an excellent self promoter and a good surf. I spent 3 weeks in a chicken pen in Legian Jan 1976, no camera and no legends but a whole lot of bird and pig shit. $2 rent per week. 2007 stayed at Ulu with a pool, a great view and millions of other people, thanks to 8mm film. Thousands of wanabe legends filled the surf. Thanks Gerry & Rory.

[@theyoungupstarts1243]

i get it.

[@phillipsteiner3581]

Two great surfers, no reason to doubt them! Must have been great for them to have that experience.

[@TheOrganicMatrix]

I surfed Padang Padang once, just me and 1 other guy. Had to get down to the beach on the back of a local's motorbike. Nothing there except huts and locals selling T-Shirts. It's not like that now, shame.

[@ectomy1235]

Now it's nothing like it was then now bali is chaotic

[@patrickrussell6216]

Without doubt, Bali was paradise on earth when i went there in early 80s. The most beautiful tolerant people, the most beautiful culture, The nearest thing to heaven on earth ❤❤❤

[@dirkdigla9760]

First surfer was a yank named Bob coke in the 30s, not sure if he surfed the buhkit but Lopez he was a late arrival as few Aussy got there before him. All lopez did was open surf camps and now paradise lost, Thanks Geeery

[@krusher74]

30ft pipe, it that like 4th reef?

[@bolo5340]

I'm a huge Lopez lover and worshiper, he was one of my childhood idols, I had his pictures all over my walls in the 70s. But as I've gotten older, I now see the real duality of the true nature of being a surfer, that being on one hand a loving sharing individual vs on the other hand being a completely self centered person only happy if one gets his way, which is how I see these men today. Where Lopez and Russell espouse such wonderful topics of peace, life, breath, love, humanity, it quickly turns into bla bla bla bla, and becomes typical hypocrisy - truth is these men are as greedy as your everyday business stock traders on Wall St. They want ALL the best waves for themselves and basically hate being around other surfers when in the water. It's easy to be and have a good loving nature when your environment is perfect. At Newport or Huntington bch in Cali on a good crowed day, trust me, Lopez would need intense counseling and therapy at days end. Surfer's true nature is a very selfish ugly thing, but they're masters at presenting themselves as peaceful zen like leaders. As long as they have all the good waves - the scraps are left to the dogs

[@1andtheOnly]

These are true words. Applies to all fields and professions.

[@christogillard4145]

Great too see how it raw it was again.. i surfed it 5 years after that.. Surfed it empty.. amazing too reminder.. that place.. / i saw jim banks.. and .. peter mc cabe.. was floating.. around on bikes and nat.. young.. surfing save my life.. you can only last in discos .. so long❤❤ Brilliant.. rory was my fav.. and he still on the case.. today. Artist surfer.. d.jchristo .. down under. ✅✅✅🌊 thks so good x

[@MrIsomer]

Gerry obviously didn't discover Ulu people - C'mon! He's not claiming in this video that he actually did. AND, Gerry did not build any surf camps down there - that was Boyum's doing at G-Land in '77. I think the Kudo's for this video belong to the filmmakers (Greg Weaver and Spyder Wills) who are not even credited here. I find that aspect of KZbin bullshit, that our works can be plagerized in this way without film credits being listed.

[@planetclay]

i agree with you SS as per using entire sections of peoples' works without providing proper credit.....on the plus-side YT has a comments-section where that can be almost corrected. thanks for your contribution towards that end. on the plus-side it's still nice to be able to see the old footage without all the branding and people's name being flashed every 9 seconds....and drones vying for position. things ain't what they used to be....

[@gsmarin1]

Yes Mr Spaulding, the Pioneers are the ones with all the arrows in their backs, given zero credit, and forgotten by the uncaring minions and swarms of late adopters whom are clueless and unaware of historical perspectives..

[@BobCarvalho]

And Peter Macabe? He was with Lopez.

[@DougCreager]

If my memory is correct, rusty miller and steve cooney were first ones to surf uluwatu

[@ccrider8277]

"stepping into indonesia was like stepping into... time"

[@jasonjackson5696]

CCRider - yea I caught that too, Rory was never the sharpest knife in the drawer. Too much weed & blow took what was left of a not so bright guy.

[@digonebali]

Yang benar-benar menemukan Uluwatu untuk 1 waktu adalah orang Australia pada tahun 1971. // Who really discovered Uluwatu for the 1st time were the Australians in 1971. Check ULU 32 here at youtube!!

[@johnbrowne5951]

Exactly. I first went in 1974 and there were Aussies surfers in Bali years before I was there.

[@happysufferer]

iT was even being surfed before The MORNING OF THE EARTH FILM . Like duh!

[@1royalwolf]

Wow. I was here six months ago and it doesn’t look anything like that now. The waves are the same but the cliff faces are all built out and there are hundreds of surfers there

[@ectomy1235]

If it's good maybe 200 plus surfers out?!

[@BourbonKid5]

The narrator at the beginning Jeff"the big Lebowski" Bridges?

[@golds04]

Listen to kind of blue- jerry was the miles Davis of surfing. Effortless beauty.

[@alvinpurple6259]

Aussie grom 15 year old Steve Cooney and Rusty miller were the first to surf it Lopez saw movie 2 years later and fucked the joint building surf camps in java etc The rest is history

[@krusher74]

lopez just stayed in the g-land camp.

[@slumduck63]

I surfed it b4 him. It was popular amongst west Au surfers. I was a grom in 72 but it was popular b4 that, puka shells and hippies

[@davestybay]

Peter Drouyn was on the Ulu scene in the early 1970's ... he may have been ahead of Gerry.

[@Swayzeo]

www.windysunbalisurfschool.com/first-surfer-bali/

[@clarkewi]

Classic era of discovery.

[@peterned5316]

I went on a surf trip with my brother and mums blessing My first surf at Ulus meant sliding down a bamboo pole. Being young fearless in 1975 paddled out of the cave and we kept getting nailed on the racecourse reef and he got thru one and I didn't 3/4 hour latter after a trip down towards Padang Padang found him in the lineup asking where I'd been now towards the temple and a long way south of the cave. Hey. Peter.....after telling me about the setup and the waves he had got this big 12ft peak that seemed to come towards us found myself high on the shoulder and watched him get absolutely launched onto looked like very shallow coral reef and he disappeared for over an hour had lost his board and said That's one of the worst wipeout I've ever had told me who had been picking of some 4+ overhead barrels that the outside corner was workin....... My initiation to Uls so give it some respect.

[@2flyfar]

Gerry found Bali by first seeing a photos of Wayne Lynch getting tubed of his head at Uluwattu.

[@EnlightnedGatone13]

Lopez if forsure the most important pioneer for Bali, G land and Pipe but he did not find Uluwatu. pretty sure Lopez got lost looking for it and older hawaains stumbled upon him on there way down the path.

[@user-ov3su7ng8k]

Bali and its people . Best on planet earth.

[@ronaldmansfield.6439]

There in 1969 and heard about Ulu then.

[@northshoresponger]

Love it! Wish I was surfing back then, Uluwatuu today is covered with hotels and crowed with surfers.

[@primemarketing7218]

go to mentawai another part of indonesia

[@steveh-hg5xz]

WHAT. YEAR. DID. GERRY. LOPEZ START. SURFING. ULAWATU

[@henryholt1359]

what? morning of earth was made 72 with Jim Banks classic footage at Uluwatu..Aussies had been there since sixties mate.

[@rnunezc.4575]

How lucky these guys were, all Bali waves for themselves. !

[@therideronthewaves1]

what name of music?

[@MultiDirtyJersey]

First trip was in September 2019. Finally going back June 2023 ulu, krem, padang, airports, Padma! Wooooooooot!

[@1andtheOnly]

Who da fk is Padma?..sounds like an Indian lady.

[@1StinkyFinger]

Daaaammmmn! wonderful waves!

[@rafaeljimenez8678]

What ever, back then it was beautifull, today it's a f........ circuss 10, 000 peolpe So sad

[@ectomy1235]

Bali has been destroyed

[@ectomy1235]

Like anything beautiful when humans get onto it you can kiss it goodbye

[@nodorksshouldgrow3309]

Money money money

[@codieryan1714]

Endless summer 66 do they do bali

[@johnkeys6379]

surfed Uluwatu with Gerry him and I only ones who would go out it was big.July 1974..

[@eganc1976]

Didn't the Vickies Surfboat here back in the 20's?

[@aliensurfa6290]

awesome to see those two legends then and now! They carved on those old heavy boards!

[@ezrhino100]

everything is a dream for gerry.

[@ronaldguida]

ezrhino100 space case

[@whydotheathensrage]

LLL! Love Long Lefts! :) Cloud Break too!

[@thelastrebelshow1627]

First Gerry , then the world largely because of the internet. Question is, when are you going? And how crowded will it be?

[@adaombak]

Hey, I'm the son of the channel owner. My dad passed away 2 years ago. The answer is, i think around 8 years ago

[@jksinorbit]

They must have been there in June…it cranks in June

[@captainamerica3531]

Leftie 70’s Nirvana!

[@marksheehan8026]

Lopez was years later ..plus totally aggro to anyone else out beside his stooges

[@jeffbauer3425]

I smoked Lotus flower. Maybe I didn't smoke enough of it?

[@raksyvids4421]

Sorry, but I call BS - isn't there footage of Uluwatu being surfed in the Australian surf movie "Morning of the Earth" ? That movie was made in 1971. R

[@adambamf9365]

+Raksy Vids yeah that's wht my mate told me when i was 12 years old

[@adambamf9365]

+Raksy Vids have you ever seen an old book called camp of the moon??

[@raksyvids4421]

adam bamf No Adam, what's that ?

[@adambamf9365]

it's a old Australian hard cover surf novel

[@valhenry2154]

Raksy Vids I think this is speaking to an American audience.. I'm sure Bali wasn't formed in the 1900 too. 😎

[@ericbettis2777]

How awesome is that, I'd love to go there some day!

[@globemusicgroup]

It’s not the same anymore… Hundreds if tourist and everything got covers in buildings.. sad

[@ericbettis2777]

@@globemusicgroup what a shame, thanks for the info

[@silentdogfart4892]

Bali was amazing in the 70s. Now it's horrendously over developed

[@romcallis]

yeah guys, thanks for turning this into the biggest tourist trap in Asia.

[@IIrandhandleII]

It would have become that way eventually

[@katomiler843]

Great post

[@standupforgood7810]

Did he Rory say "it was bitchin"

[@craigparker4108]

What BS, he only found out about it from Aussies surfing in Hawaii.

[@betofogo17]

Cut the crappy dialogue, Aussies were surfing Bali since the 60's.

[@LordFlashheart1]

Steve Cooney first surfed Ulus. Just saying

[@EternalFringeDweller]

The 15 year old Stephen Cooney and veteran surfer Rusty Miller surfing Uluwatu. Filmed by Albert Falzon in 1971, this segment was part of Falzon and Elphick's "Morning of the Earth", released the following year. kzbin.info/www/bejne/apbCY4aomM99grs Not a word is spoken from start to finish. What a pleasant contrast to Jim Freeman and ‎Greg MacGillivray' otherwise excellent"Five Summer Stories", which came out later that same year. Oh yeah, George Greenough's adventures, as told in "Crystal Voyager", came out in 1972 as well. What a bumper year for surf flicks that was.

[@Simon.the.Likeable]

Bob Evans had gone to Bali with Col Smith and a couple of other Narrabeen surfers the year before MOTE. They had only surfed Kuta and came home. Guess they didn't know about the potential a bit further south.

[@wildebeast]

Rusty Miller USA and Steve Conney AUSTRALIA

[@pil3356]

Fun fact...lopez didnt discover it

[@metalheadmetalumbro3616]

Can any one move that waves to california

[@happysufferer]

You didn't discover it...

[@thelastrebelshow1627]

They discovered it as far as the United States went fool. Oh sure there may have been a couple of guys on the planet that knew about it but they weren’t world class surfers like Lopez and Russell. It was a hell of a discovery for 99.9% of the surfing world.

[@surferpam1]

Gerry did *not* discover Ulu.

[@inobi30]

The days when the world wasn't too populated must have been amazing. Nowadays there will be 1000 Chinese on the beach.

[@adambamf9365]

i thought Australians found ulu's

[@davestybay]

Not sure on who could claim discovering Ulus but ... I saw film of Peter Drouyn surfing Ulus in the early 70's. I surfered Ulus in 1975 (May June) and there were 10 -20 guys in the water most days. Stayed with a family in Legian. Had to walk through rice paddies to get there, paid some local guys to keep an eye on my motor bike and one young fella carried my board for me ... it was a pretty well known spot and the locals were on to how to make a buck, even then. Peter Drouyn travelled to many locations around the world in the 60's and 70's and I wouldn't be surprised if he laid claim to "discovering" Ulus as a surf spot for westerners.

[@portkembla1955]

@@davestybay You are correct.

[@gsmarin1]

Surfers can be very selfish, arrogant, and one-dimensional beings. However, when confronted with a transitional moment in the Histroy of the Sport/Lifestyle you have to marvel at what it's like to be a pioneer, 20-40 years ahead of the masses of followers, stooges, sycophants, greedheads, and fashionistas.

[@mitseraffej5812]

Fuck the boards were so slow in the 70s. I started my surfing on them. Then came the shit twin fins. When I finally got a decent board at age 25 I thought where have you been all my life. I,m old now and can barely get up off the floor let alone hop to my feet on a wave. Just waiting to die.

[@caseycomely1231]

Already knew this !

[@brianrapp2883]

1975 Paul rapp my dad from usc and delmar made go for it with my pal hal jepsen

[@bananakazu]

good!

[@jasonjackson5696]

Gerry & Rory are not the sharpest guys around & a bit embarrassing to listen to ....

[@salmeehenghock3698]

You are wrong

[@artlover1477]

Rory is a fun loving guy. Gerry is more serious and introspective. I always dug their yen and yang personalities. It was fun growing up in the 70s with these guys.

[@dodipermana1493]

👍🎉

[@IIrandhandleII]

"The lack of people" hahahahahaha hahaha Haha Haha hahaha

[@PBGSURFER65]

I would loved to have zapped some thrusters to these guys back then.The would have been crushing those waves like never before.

[@averagejoegrows]

🧢🧢🧢

[@rootramirez]

This is bull shit Gerry did not discover Uluwatu ,in fact the Australians were there before US surfers, Mike Boyum and myself were surfing Uluwatu in 1973. In fact we surfed many unnamed spots at the time,which have become known for great waves. Sorry Gerry get your story straight...

[@rootramirez]

And by the way Lopez boards sucked. Brewers and Diff's were much better

[@pickledoctapus1]

Ulus is over rated ..cr-p wave..so he discovered a cr-p wave..so what ????!!!..lol..if he discovered Deserts thats another story.

[@mrinfinitemonkeycage5668]

Jesus where do you surf in fucking heaven or something? "Crap wave" really....you sure about that or you just have big ego and small balls