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 documentary Going Vertical that I found most distracting, dishonest even, is how the film and photos skip all over the timeline, sometimes landing on the period in question, but just as o...
WATCH: THE ILLUSTRATED REVOLUTION
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 Australian National Titles
- 1967: First Look at the Short Surfboard
- American Surfers in "Fantastic Plastic Machine"
- Australian Surfers in "Fantastic Plastic Machine"
- Bob McTavish
- Bob McTavish, Design Rap '67
- Dick Brewer
- Honolua Bay 1967
- Midget Farrelly
- Team Brewer: Jock Sutherland, Jackie Eberle, Jeff Hakman
- Wiggle: The Squirrelly Side of the Shortboard Revolution