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Midget Farrelly Rides His Stringerless Model

Credits: Bob Evans, Paul Witzig, Greg MacGillivray, Jim Freeman

Encyclopedia of Surfing

Farrelly, Midget
shortboard revolution
World Surfing Championships 1964
World Surfing Championships 1968
World Surfing Championships 1970

History of Surfing

Midget Wins It All
Plastic Machine

Interviews

Midget Farrelly

Features

"HOW I BEGAN," EXCERPT FROM MIDGET FARRELLY'S "THIS SURFING LIFE" (1965)
"THERE'S A SURFBOARD REVOLUTION GOING ON!" DICK GRAHAM (1968)
1969 SURFER POLL READER'S BALLOT
BURNING MAN '64: DROPPING INTO THE WORLD TITLES at MANLY BEACH
DEAR MIDGET: YOU DESERVED BETTER. WE'RE SORRY. THE SURF MEDIA

The Sunday Joint

SUNDAY JOINT, 10-8-2017: MIDGET, PHIL, JOEY, DAVE (CLARK FIVE)
SUNDAY JOINT, 12-15-2019: GAIL COUPER, MIDGET FARRELLY, MARK LIDDELL, GARY FILOSA
SUNDAY JOINT, 4-16-2023: MIDGET VS PHIL, BATTLE OF THE BIOGRAPHIES – GENTLEMEN, START YOUR METAPHORS!

Videos

"Evolution," Opening Sequence
1962 Makaha International Surfing Championships
1963 Makaha International Surfing Championships
1964 World Surfing Championships newsreel
Australian Surfers in "Fantastic Plastic Machine"

Contests

1962 Makaha International Surfing Championships
1963 Makaha International Surfing Championships
1964 World Surfboard Championships
1965 SURFER Poll Awards
1965 World Surfing Championships

Surfboards

STRINGERLESS