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Joel Tudor

Consider the contemporary longboard explosion: many factors have been cited as flashpoints-- changing demographics, technology, outright boredom--but it could just as easily be said that a single surfer--Joel Tudor--ignited the bomb.

Until about 1992, the typical longboard surfer was regarded as the outcome of eroded skills. Old, fat, and bald seemed to be the prerequisites. Then came the longboard rats. Joel and his contemporaries, looking for something fresh, found it in an old, familiar place...on the nose.

Over the course of the decade Joel has worked hard to defy the longboard stereotype. His shortboard skills, while never world class, have earned the respect of that camp. His focus on traditional lines at Pipeline have drawn praise from onlookers. Sessions at Todos Santos and in Indonesia have proven his fortitude in size. But without question it's been his surfing on heavy, single-finned longboards that has had onlookers slack-jawed around the globe.

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FIN

For as long as there have been surfers, there has been an accepted standard of what was normal of finless redwood planks in the '20s, longboards in the '60s, single-fins in the '70s, thrusters in the '80s and '90s. But today, there is no standard;...

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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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Biographies - Joel Tudor

Joel Tudor resides at the top of longboarding's late 20th century revival, and he became a talented shortboarder at such indicator breaks as Pipeline and Cloudbreak. In this edition, there's the Tudor paradox in a prodigy's passion for surfing's past...

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Another State of Mind

CJ Nelson, one of the most amazing and creative surfers ever, is joined by an all-star cast in this action packed movie that re-defines modern longboarding.It's about riding waves.It's about fun, and best yet, it all happens in the ocean. It's...

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Super Slide

Super Slide is about classic hot doggin' style with World Champion Joel Tudor leading the charge and getting solid surfing backup from fellow Californians Kevin Connelly, Jimmy Gamboa, Darren Ledingham, Mike Myers and many more. Check out Malibu...

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Way of Life

The film features smooth surfing by Joel Tudor, CJ Nelson, Alex Knost, Devon Howard and Noah Shimabukuro and others. According to Devon Howard, Editor, LongBoard Magazine, "This new film by Dana Morris is part of a recent movement within the surf...

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Great Waves - Malibu

This edition of the Surfer's Journal delves deep into the California surfing experience, including the passionate, doomed relationship between Mickey Dora and Malibu. Throughout the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of surfers fanned out across the state...

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Wingnut's Art of Longboarding 3

Art of Longboarding 3 focuses on different styles of surfing...from the California retro movement to the Hawaiian power / performance school and the Japanese blend of them all. Including a special segment on womens longboarding and a brief stretch at...

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Hang

Hang is a verb. It's a noun. It's a transitive state of being. It's an attitude a suspension of gravity and disbelief. In surfing, 'hanging' means putting ten toes over the nose in the supreme act of finely honed edgework, the Hang Ten. To hang...

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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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Riding Waves

In a world increasingly run by the tick-tock of a clock and frantic flashing of red light, green light, there is an ever growing need to tune into the real rhythms of the earth. Offering an intimate view into the lives of five surfers, Riding Waves...

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Long Board TV - Episode 3

In a time when scores of single fins, shaggy hairdos and thrift store apparel can be found along the beaches of Southern California, its hard tell what's real or just a trend in an era that's cool to be "old school." To the outsider, longboard...

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