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Mark Richards
His approach was radical. His attitude humble. His competitive prowess legendary. But more than anything else Newcastle, Australia's Mark Richards was a total original.
Despite his beginnings as a gangly kid with an unorthodox style, MR surfed his way to competitive surfing's highest honor--four times. Along the way he became a master shaper, a successful businessman, and a role model for thousands of young Aussie surfers.
The nice guy who finished first, he remains one of surfing's most likable characters. MR critics are nearly non-existent, which tells you much of what you need to know about the man. Overcoming a tall physique that included muscular legs, a slight upper-body, winglike arms, and an impossibly long neck, he was jokingly dubbed "the wounded seagull." That such an unflattering nickname came to represent innovation and excellence is testament to Richards' influence on the sport.
Knees together, hands upturned, and chin thrust forward, MR could be picked out of a... (more)
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Your search for "mark richards" found 33 item(s).
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Ultimate Sessions
A rare nexus of optimal swell, marquee surfers and skilled, dedicated surf cinematographers created a vast library of surfing's greatest moments over the last three decades.
Director Ira Opper and writer Matt Warshaw have painstakingly sifted the...
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Biographies - Gerry Lopez
Hawaiian surfer Gerry Lopez, the elegant tube rider famous for his slouched, ultra-cool statements at Pipeline, has become a timeless icon for the soul of surfing. His very name has become a sort of shorthand for surfing style. Never considered a...
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Super Session
The best surfing of the 1970's filmed in Hawaii, California, and Australia. Fast paced, action packed, breathtaking surfing. Starring Larry Bertlemann, Gerry Lopez, Barry Kanaiaupuni, and Jeff Hakman. "Exceptional surfing orchestrated by virtuoso...
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Wingut's Search for Soul
In "Search for Soul" longboarder star Robert "Wingnut" Weaver is young, healthy, successful and completely disillusioned. Atop the sport he loves, Wingnut is haunted by the feeling that something is missing. Surfing has misplaced its Holy Grail......
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The Masters
Dateline, Tavarua, Fiji: It had never happened before. And it will be hard for any subsequent event to match it: 24 legendary surfing competitors were spirited away to a private island for a Masters contest in 6-8 spitting barrels. The legend-class...
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A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life is the latest film release from the World Surf Images crew. Matty Gye, Shaggs and Rick Jakovich are the brain and angles behind the international award winning films "3 Degrees" and "Montaj". Shot in virtual every corner of the...
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Great Waves - Honolua Bay
In this edition of The Surfer's Journal, we look closely at Maui's Honolua Bay. Mark Richards chocks back tears of joy (damn near) recalling his tube of the season at Honolua Bay in 1976. By looking at this renowned break, this edition of The...
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A Matter of Style
The revised release of A Matter of Style (1976) features California, Oahu, Baja, and Maui from 1972 thru 1980. If a surf film was successful in its first release and did really well on its second run, (as A Matter of Style), than it made sense to...
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Great Waves - Jeffrey's Bay
Perfect surf, while rare, is scattered to corners of the world, and that the cartography of great waves remains an unfinished job. This special edition of the Surfer's Journal looks at the prime surfing destination of Jeffrey's Bay in South Africa....
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Biographies - Shaun Tomson
As a top gun of the Free Ride generation- the peak of 1970s surfing- Shaun Tomson of South Africa ushers in a new level of performance and international flair. As a handsome world champ tube rider, he attracted the first hoards of autograph-seeking...
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Biographies - Mark Richards
As a top gun of the Free Ride generation- the peak of 1970s surfing- Mark Richards of Australia ushers in a new level of performance and international flair. Not quite the sex symbol type, he was a mild-mannered, deeply respected and popular figure...
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Follow the Sun
Travel to remote beaches of war torn Central America (see never before seen photographed waves of Roca Bruja). Catch the waves of Puerto Rico, the North Shore, Outer Hawaiian Islands, California and the warm waters of the Carribean.
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