The objective here is to put some visuals to the first and most important year of the shortboard revolution. What you see below is not a complete record of what happened in board design in 1967. Not even close. The imagery, however, is limited ONLY to that year. The thing about the 2010 shortboard revolution…
WATCH: THE ILLUSTRATED REVOLUTION
Blog
- NEW ZEALAND ’59: THE ACCIDENTAL SHORTBOARD
- WATCH: THE ILLUSTRATED REVOLUTION
- “PORTALS OF ENDLESS CARNATIONS” – HOW THE REVOLUTION WAS MARKETED
- FAILURE TO LAUNCH: SHORTBOARDS BEFORE THE SHORTBOARD REVOLUTION
- MIDGET AND THE REVOLUTION: A CLOSER LOOK
- THE SHORTBOARD REVOLUTION BEGINS HERE
- SHORTBOARDS: “IT TOOK THE AUSSIES TO DO IT.” DICK BREWER, YOUR THOUGHTS?
- “THE LIFE AND WORK OF RICHARD BREWER,” BY DREW KAMPION (Surfer’s Journal, 1999)
Sunday Joint
Encyclopedia of Surfing
History of Surfing
Above the Roar
Videos
- "Evolution," Opening Sequence
- 16 or Bust: the Super-Narrow Boards of 1969
- 1967: First Look at the Short Surfboard
- American Surfers in "Fantastic Plastic Machine"
- Australian Surfers in "Fantastic Plastic Machine"
- Bob McTavish
- Bob McTavish Does Not Like His Board
- Bob McTavish, Design Rap '67
- Bob McTavish, Manly Beach, May or June, 1967
- Dick Brewer
- Honolua Bay 1967
- Midget Farrelly
- Nat Young in "Fantastic Plastic Machine" (1969)
- Team Brewer: Jock Sutherland, Jackie Eberle, Jeff Hakman
- Wiggle: The Squirrelly Side of the Shortboard Revolution