GREG "DA BULL" NOLL -FIRST SESSION AT WAIMEA BAY NOV 7 1957

[@winegeek2949]

Best video on you tube

[@michaeljoseph2303]

Grew up a few miles from Greg Noll’s shop in Hemosa CA. few miles down the street was Jacob’s. In those shops checking out boards as kid. Remember days surfing Redondo Breakwater Hermosa and Manhattan Piers with only a few surfers in the water. I’ll be 77 tomorrow some of the best times of my life there. Now Livin in Hawaii still in the water🌈🏄🏼‍♂️

[@johnlane9743]

RSS - very happy to have found your channel - love the footage - audio and notes ! Looking forward to viewing more - Most grateful for your efforts !!!

[@RealSurfStories]

Thanks John!

[@IAm1InTheIAm]

Hearing Greg bring up those names really brought back memories of guys i knew in Hermosa Beach and their surfboard factories. Great.

[@manfrombkk]

Yeah I was in Hermosa then also, going to the shops: Greg Knoll, Jacobs, and Bing. Even had all of their stickers.

[@IAm1InTheIAm]

@GPT-Edward great 👍 don't forget Rick's down the hill from Bing's...that's where Phil Becker shaped his first 1000 boards, lol !

[@PaulOReilly712]

what a magnificent, tough, man of the Sea would love to be like him in that he don't care about what anyone else does just does his own thing his own way that 40 foot wave he rode in 1969 would be one of the guttsiest go outs in surfing History he was the Man back then Thanks God for thinking up Greg Noll :D

[@1234waveskier]

I grew up in Hermosa, started surfing in the early 60,s. Mike Stang was the lifeguard at Manhattan Pier. What great memories.

[@jimrehman904]

On the North Shore in the late 80`s ( working as a sander at T&C ) I met Greg sitting at a table at Aricias natural sandwich stand next to Kammies. Sitting there as humble as could be. Almost did not recognize him. We talked a bit and I complimented him on being the pioneer that he was. Such a nice guy. The way a true legend acts.

[@scottguthrie9218]

Much respect for Greg and all the legendary watermen from the Southbay. I never got to meet my grandfather Rex, but he worked with Greg as an LA County Lifeguard in Manhattan/Hermosa Beach. Found a photo recently of their crew from the spring of 1953.

[@davidm.1934]

Dude that’s epic! You should definitely frame that photograph in your living room!

[@icysurfer1]

Every Big Wave Surfer's Hero

[@RockCreed]

He's in the mount Rushmore of waveriding with Duke, Tom Blake and a couple of others. Giants of surfing.

[@brucebarnes9638]

The Bull is a legend. I got my first surfboard in 1962, just a punk kid in So Cal. Who inspired me to go for it? Da Bull. Da Man!!

[@bobwallace4198]

Gregs dog was named sam and Greg and I went to the bluebook bar in El Poirto, he put sam on a seat in the middle of us and gave him a glass of beer which he sipped this was on a Friday night and the place was packed not one person told Greg to move his dog ha ha ha , Greg was really fun to work for and bar hop with we all loved Greg I am 83 yrs old and wish I could go back to those times .

[@RealSurfStories]

That is All Time Bob!!

[@smelltheglove2038]

Those black and white trunks are so iconic. I wish a company would make a more modern version.

[@boogieheads]

Wouldnt be hard to make

[@ski35off34]

I still have my ‘67 G.Noll da-Cat, Mickki Dora. Hangs above my desk ! Video highlights wicked wipe-outs ! Brave dudes !!

[@roberte2004]

Cool to read these stories and learn about people like Greg that were so impactful from my area. Southbay LA love ❤️ 🤙

[@gofiodetrigo8756]

what a document thanks for sharing! Props to whoever recorded that in the first place!

[@surf101-]

What a legend!!

[@clarkewi]

Been one of my idols since 1963

[@johnrobb9408]

8:20 way 25ft. And breaking in the middle of the bay! Before Ala Moana mall sand mining. These historic videos are golden.

[@Nickos-sn5gm]

A legend hits a target no one else can hit. A genius hits a target no one else can see.

[@garryperrin2408]

What a superb video!

[@dukeflyingcow]

no leash, no lifeguard...legends.

[@JesusIsAloha]

That is what I wanted to point out as well. No leash boys!

[@mikemccourt6225]

"..so if you f&^ked up, you were on your own." GN from Riding Giants

[@genripper-b8q]

great subject. great soundtrack. gurvitz is the near hendrix level guy nobody ever heard of. well done post.

[@wendymorgan6651]

Great upload thanks

[@mikeh-p7q]

Thanks for the video.

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

Yeah boss, thanks for the inspiration 🤙🏻😎🖤🐓

[@GnomicMaster]

Phil Edwards was my surf hero in the '60s. Names like Dora, Carson, Munoz, Weber, Nuuhiwa, Cabell, and so many others were the gods of the waves in my era.

[@jimrehman904]

But this is a video about Greg Noll.

[@GnomicMaster]

So then it's a video about Greg "Noel" and not Greg Noll? You poser!!

[@jimrehman904]

@@GnomicMaster 🥱

[@GnomicMaster]

@@jimrehman904 Good to see that you edited your initial post. I kept you up to speed.

[@carolferguson19]

11 years before I got there🌊🤙

[@nicktrueman224]

Awesome us geriatrics appreciate this. Is there a list of tracks played?

[@RealSurfStories]

Gun - "Gunsight" (UK 1969)

[@nicktrueman224]

@@RealSurfStories awesome thank you! Enjoy your youth if you are young and great vid and music cheers. Now personally well if the blonde is still in my encampment or room when I get out of water well why not! Maybe smoke 1st beforehand something I no longer do;)

[@nicktrueman224]

​@@RealSurfStories "wasn't giant but around 20ft" LMAO so many people including me would ah soil their pants, but yeah I eventually braved some bigger stuff. But what guys are doing today is just nuts. It's great to see but I also know people have been killed or suffered horrendous injury. It's something that always existed I guess but I think everyone who surfs shallow reef or big waves except that bad outcomes are apart of the the deal. Thanks mate appreciate the vid.

[@Strawman333]

Dude had balls of brass.

[@goofsaddggkle7351]

A real man

[@nouseforaname5378]

4:43 great ride

[@foonatt]

Bump bump bump goes the board xD

[@stephenmccandless5113]

I sold Greg the 150 gallon fish tank with breeding Oscars, for his new shop on PCH..He was a regular in Lunada Bay and other spots in the south bay..I am 73 and remember Greg in the early 60's...many other fathers of the sport of big wave surfing.

[@trippy123]

DA BULL!

[@hunterdavis3003]

RIP “Da Bull” I always liked and respected him more than Dora…both chiseled the archetype of a “surfer”

[@foonatt]

Strong archetypes indeed. Wouldn't want either of them punching me in their prime either O_O;

[@OneFlewOver1776]

Remember No Leash then...Had to hold on or go back in and hopefully the board wasn't broke in two... Around 66 my friend and I had to carry my brothers board down to the beach. It was firkin heavy and ever since then I said to myself I'll never surf a LOG ever. My first board was a 6'6" Blue Cheer square tail. I learned on that and then GSs came out and to this day I have a 6'6" and 7'2" both pin tails and runs circles around the now LOGs that these goofballs are on. I'm about to turn 66 and still goin. So everyone have fun and don't snake the guy that has the Right Of Way...take care.

[@lostinfrance9830]

Titanium Balls all of them. some of those wipeouts.... and they just kept pumping

[@curtisautenrieth3342]

He looks like he would destroy a 200m butterfly!

[@TheLectureRoom]

The days when the howlies showed the locals how to do it…end of story

[@ChickenJoe-tq6xd]

Don’t worry John John still does

[@SuperAmin1950]

...and haoles, too¡ 😮

[@hunterdavis3003]

Don’t see how they avoided getting knocked out by those seventy pound missiles!

[@avs9800]

Did native Hawaiians ride big waves first? Was it documented ?

[@RealSurfStories]

Absolutely. However at Waimea Bay this is probably the day it was first ridden.

[@Town_Country96]

I didn’t realize he’s literally a celebrity out there🤙

[@burleism5158]

really? He's the John Wayne of surfing.

[@AnonYmous-be9vw]

No jetskis, no leashes, no reference point, huge heavy boards, giant balls.