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rodndtube · Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject: The Paipo Interviews

Would you be interested in conducting interviews with people located in the California area? If so, please contact Bob Green. We have made tentative contacts with "people of interest" in Orange County and Northern California. John Clark has graciously agreed to be our paipo research man-in-the-sand in Hawaii and Bob Green has been taking the lead in Australia. But, we can always use for help. Bob Green is in the process of drafting a "standardized template" to use as an outline for conducting paipo interviews - of course, some background research and/or knowledge is also useful and the template is only a starting point.

I will be in Central Florida (with possible side trips to St. Augustine to the north and points to the south) in mid-November, extending my warm water season and visiting with family. The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum has offered to provide access to their magazine, books and other relevant artifacts. Hopefully they will have a nice collection of 50s/60s era surf mags and a scanner will be available. If you know of anyone that shoudl be interviewed or that has collections of these types of artifacts please let me know.
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surfnturf · Joined: 15 Jul 2009 Posts: Location: WEST CENTRAL FLA.

hey rod, i'll give a holler to my friend 'balsa bill' yerkes down in satellite bch. bill is a member of the east coast surfing hall of fame, and owned SUNDEKsurfwear back in the 70's n 80's. now has a sweet little surfshop in S.B. he's great for talkin story!

bgreen · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz

Surfnturf,

Were you thinking of recording it or taking notes? As Rod mentioned we are working on a general framework for interviews, but some background info on the person makes for a richer and more detailed conversation.

Some folks make but don't ride paipo, others design, so often there are different angles or stories to tell.

Bob

kage · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:22 pm Post subject:

I am having difficulty sending a PM (#@$#%^%!!!) so maybe that means I should put it here on the forum. Very Happy

Calm calm thoughts.
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Anyway... I'd be happy to interview anyone up in Nor Cal or help in any way I can. So Bob ( you are the organizing guy I think?) let me know.

bgreen · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz

Hello Kage,

Thanks. Not sure about the organizing guy, but I have done a few interviews and negotiated a few others. Once Rod is back I hope to be able to send him 2 more and John Clark may be able to add a couple.

We have been especially interested in documenting the past - any guys you can think of who were active in the 60s. Mike might be a candidate - I'd need to trawl through the archives because there is already a lot of info there, but am open to suggestions.

Bob

rodndtube · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject:

Hi Kage,

Just sent you a PM. Maybe the system was temporarily down.
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bgreen · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz

Kage,

I saw your 3 pm and sent you a reply, though it didn't show in my sentbox/outbox. Let me know if you receive it.

Rod,

I will send an interview over the weekend and possibly some more scanned pages. I uploaded a couple of pages a day or say ago. I need some advice about Youtube or something, as the video file was too big to send on your upload site (2 MB).

Bob

DaGRizTX · Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: Location: Texas

bgreen you could always just post the url of the video... Idea

There is a surf museum in Corpus Christi:
http://www.texassurfmuseum.com/txSurfMain_content.html#Home
I'll give them a shout and see if they have anything of interest.
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bgreen · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz

DaGRizTX,

Thanks. No idea about the Youtube upload - have to read abut this. By all means check out the museum, manufacturers/surfers. Sounds good.

Bob

DaGRizTX · Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: Location: Texas

Bob no need to upload the video just copy and paste the url as I did with the surf museum's url.
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disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.

-Mark Twain

bgreen · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz

DaGRizTX,

There was no URL to post. 10 hour + upload from home. Hope it is of interest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lss-QILYwGc

Bob

Nels · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:15 pm Post subject:

Okay Bob, you earned a long period of grace getting that footage up. Fantastic! May empty waves come your way. Thanks.

bgreen · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz

Nels,

Thanks.

I'm hoping the real quality will not be too far behind. Stig Waidelich is working on a more commercial project, with footage of his father and Jim Growney. He told me that he now has the footage back and is working on the soundtrack and other content. This is going to take some time but sounds like really good material.

Bob

mrmike · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: Location: coronado, ca

very cool stuff. look how faster the paipo is over the old boards. I would not want to be hit with one of those 50lb logs Cool

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Soulglider · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts:

super groovy video!
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