Mike Hynson on his favorite part of "The Endless Summer"

[@ericlawson2101]

I’ve got a Hynson fish that i treasure. Been surfing it for years, magic surfboard. RIP Mike, you’re an icon of surfing

[@wellpleased1836]

I had Mike Hynson shape many a surfboard for me. He was one of the best crafters of surfboards this world has ever known. And if you have ever seen Mike surf... Well, he had a smooth rhythmic style. He could dance on water. Mike is from the generation of the brotherhood of eternal love. The best longboard I have ever owned and surf on was a Hynson One. Red fin with the brotherhood of eternal written on it. It rode like Mike surfed, smooth and fluid. And fast when needed. That board was stolen from the lawn. My heart sunk.

[@Alligator6002]

I couldn't put Mike's book Down, action packed. I love this dude 🌊🤙

[@davidtreichelpppj5304]

That was a COOL interview... I've never seen that before .... Thanks for posting !!

[@SDBARTENDER1]

Gets choked up as he lives it over again. Legend.

[@kevinsd99]

Hynson is a hell of a good shaper, surfer, and survivor. I'm happy to have met him at a Windansea Surf Club dinner a few years back. It's very cool to hear the real story of Cape St. Francis - the wave that launched a thousand surf trips and more.

[@johnlane9743]

A seminal figure of surfing lore - could listen all day long... Thx Mike for your contribution !

[@jmartin4955]

Every surfer wanted to be Mike Hynson in the 60's, I remember Mike surfing in front of my lifeguard tower in Pacific Beach in the 70's surfing smooth on every wave he took.

[@imjustpassinthru7779]

I gotta a surprise for you young wippersnappers. People get older and you will too. I remember Mike when he was a handsome young man, and for an old guy he's still good looking. He shaped a board for me just at the tine when long boards were becoming shorter. I didn't like the shorter board and brought it back. Mike was very gracious and let me trade for a new longboard, one that had been shaped by Dell Cannon. It was 9-foot, 10-inches and what a hotdog board that was. All that happened around 1965 or so. I never got used to the shorter boards. I'm 75 now. I don't know how old Mike is. I think he was a year or two older than me.

[@clarkewi]

I saw "Endless Summer" at Santa Barbara High School January 1965. I was 13. My mom had to drive me and me mates to the film. Bruce Brown did the narration in person. Hammonds was going off and we scored it the next day. That was when the "Biltmore Pier" still stood. Longboards. No leg ropes. Beaver tail wetsuits. And then my mom drove us down to Rincon. It was going off 3-4 foot in the cove. 10 people out. Some of the surfer dudes had "Farmer John" wetsuits by O'Niell - the ultimate wetsuit at the time. I was riding a 9'2"Yater. I weighed about 80 pounds. And then Dora showed up. God...can I please live my life over again???

[@grouchomarxist666]

Film was released June 15, 1966.

[@clarkewi]

@@grouchomarxist666 You are talking about the "second stage" of its release when it was when it was released nationally. I saw it when Bruce Brown was taking the film to surf cities on both coasts of America, Hawaii, Australia and South Africa himself. Bruce made the narration in person. I know, I was there.

[@grouchomarxist666]

@@clarkewi That must have been a very cool experience. Glad you took the opportunity. Love the film.

[@tbirdtim]

My brothers were at that showing at SBHS. Ted and Tom Roehm. Of course, all of their surfing buddies were probably there, too! Bruce was doing the live narration, honing the commentary and jokes for the theatrical release.

[@TheYurisam]

What a great story! I enjoyed this immensely!

[@stampscapes]

Such a great movie. Was great hearing the story of the climax location.

[@Unexplainableone213]

Ok weirdo 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@marktourtellotte1336]

My first new board was a Hynson Model (saved up for over a year to get it). Thanks Mike!

[@GuyRips]

Love how handling the story and the board,, endlessly cool

[@tylerrobinson5490]

Never forget when he signed my board shorts at the Board Room Show, October 2023. I just surfed that morning with my buddy before the show. My green shorts that I always wore were crusty and dirty. It was all I had for him to sign as a signature and he still signed them. Talked about Bruce Brown’s Surfing Hollow Days for a little while, about his wave at pipeline in the film where he dropped into an 8 foot bomb, nose diving and still not hitting the bottom. We talked about kooks today and hodads. That was the only time I ever met or talked to him, but it was awesome. Cool dude

[@clayreynolds5502]

The endless summer was one that made surfing 🏄‍♂️ a great thing to do i started at 9 years old use to cut down long boards and reshape and glass them I broke my front teeth making fins with a saber saw im 72 those were the good old days RIP Mike

[@SoulDaddy33]

Mike shaped my first new board but I never knew until Bob and Bill Bahne clued me in decades later.. I worked with Curtis Hesselgrave in what is now the Belly Up in '72 and he had Mike shape me a 7'2. I sucked on it but it was beautiful especially with Curtis' airbrushung. I sure wish I still had it.

[@johnkaufman9075]

Boy are we all getting old. Mike you are a little older than me. I am now 78 you must be 80 now. Anyway I from time to time would see you out at Windansea. Anyway, you definately must have enjoyed surfing at the cape St Francis in 1962. Good memories.

[@oasisbullterriers]

Absolutely great surf story about one of the most legendary events in surf history. Pretty damn funny too.

[@joeybenoit6269]

Didn't Mike used to shape for b a h n e surfboards? My favorite boards! 1966! Pacific Beach select surf shop! Phil! Was the best owner operator in San Diego surfing history!

[@michaelpanagiotis7109]

The Hobie Red Fin era was a CLassic time ! Mike was right in there . . .

[@guloguloguy]

.....PURE AWESOMENESS!!!!!!.........

[@prowelderbill]

Kids; stay away from resin vapors! 😎

[@GeoffLogie]

yea you'll have trouble stringing a coherent sentence together...

[@lmr7083]

I met him years ago just after Endless Summer in Encinitas. Fixed a fin for me.

[@rdcruiser4396]

R.I.P.😢🤙✋

[@henniebester9437]

My parents had a house at Cape St Francis. In the 1980's, people were still taking about their visit. A rare break off the Cape is also named after Bruce Brown. Sadly, the sandy bottom is mostly gone because of vegetation imported to anchor the sand blow on the shore. But the break at Seal Point, when it comes, lives up to the legend. I prefer it to Jeffreys Bay.

[@heater4546]

Legend RIP

[@thomasstern6814]

i surf there every holiday :) feels good man

[@davidackerman6837]

This man invented the down rail. Huge contribution to the evolution of board design.

[@dwightmoore3060]

I had three or four of his down rail boards in 70-72 when he was shaping for Bill Bahne in Encinitas. Shaped by Mike Hynson, glassed by Wayne Hoshizaki. Totally state of the art! Practically our entire college surf team (USD) was on those boards and we loved them.

[@shaka-surf]

A shame the lav mic is so noisy.

[@angelsurfstyle]

in the sixties i briefly had a stretch model hynson with the gordonsmith decal across the square nose, was trimable from the nose only, had black slipcheck with red and black pigment: now i have a hobie phil edwards model, on which shape hynson's endless summer board was based..... quite fun and the weed enhances all aspects, read his book about hendrix and maui and making movies

[@spiritualbeancoffee1031]

I had a Hanson red fin that I found floating in a swimming pool waterlogged peppered with dings. It was a pig even after waterproofing it. Hats off to the guys that had to surf these pos’s and make it look good.

[@joemeeker5211]

Wow! I could only listen for a minute. He has a very hard time getting the words out

[@andrewb.5996]

Stay off the drugs kids....

[@mattcunningham9235]

Or you know live how you want and be 65 and recollect shit in minor detail like any other normal human

[@fernandomaron87]

Such a cool dude

[@joseluizpagliaro4022]

É 10!

[@sansalamandra]

Rip

[@Max14163]

Pretty funny story... little different from that line of crap about hiking for miles over the dunes!

[@amys.johnson8449]

😊

[@j.cordellsteinmetz9219]

Boxing Gloves

[@tjyonkero]

was he loaded??

[@billywillgo69]

Perma-fried.

[@painted1276]

Seems like a regular old dude to me. Stoked on his memories

[@surferdude8086]

Sick fish. P.S. Just watch the movie. It's much faster.

[@arizonaranger527]

These old head gate keep surfing , not by terrorizing new people in the surf , but by making a board the price of a small used car 😂