Racking Focus: Spyder Wills Footage Gerry Lopez and Rory Russell at 1970s Uluwatu

[@raymondperez2972]

That surf film is Numba One!!!! Aloha!!!!

[@scottmcwave9479]

Bali is so crowded now, these guys were in heaven!

[@WhiteNacho]

No lip smacks and no cutbacks.

[@sharkking8077]

I sometimes wish buddy boy kaohi was shown surfing at dumps in maui

[@alinemousinho4858]

Nossa, essas ondas são perfeitas

[@davidgough3512]

Functional grace, when making waves was a thing. Beats watching trendy thrashers on tiny boards getting shut down.

[@joeblow1942]

You don’t think surfers at pipeline aren’t trying to make the wave?

[@davidgough3512]

@@joeblow1942 seeing how Lopez and Russel pretty much invented consistent tuberiding at Pipe, you picked the one main exception that proves the point.

[@joeblow1942]

@@davidgough3512 They pretty much did invent tube riding at pipe but thats irrelevant to my point.

[@davidgough3512]

@@joeblow1942 mmkay.. Pipe is a freakish exception not a hotdog wave, and the boards we call stepups resemble the eqpmnt Gerry and Rory were on. There's not much choice for maneuvers at Pipeline except make it or break it. I was speaking in more general terms, how it's refreshing to see an approach different from the new normal which often focuses on one big maneuver rather than the wave as a whole. But it's all good. I think the old and new are starting to converge, outside the contest or quick cut video format.

[@davidgough3512]

@Bebtelovimab yeah average beachbreaks are a thing unto themselves. When they're working right they can be hard to beat. Otherwise : meh.