vintage longboarding david nuuhiwa, music by the supertones

[Shaboobuhwogan]

Seems like Joel is a big David fan

[74LesPaul]

I saw David at the world championships in Ocean Beach San Diego where he amazed the crowd by taking a ten toes over the nose nose ride through the pier . . the longest nose ride I have ever seen. The year I believe was 1963 and the contest was won by Australian surfer Nat Young on a 9'4" board he called Magic Sam. At the time it was considered a radical departure for anyone to ride a board as short as 9' 4" (which happened to also be the length of my Gordon and Smith at the time).

[k311y5m1th]

who would click dislike on this??

[nootaramus]

in my opinion a better longboarder than dora- I would rather watch david than most any other surfer even today- very fluid and cool.

one of the best surfboards I ever had was a nuuhiwa 6'10- a magic board.

[Buggerlugz000]

Tena koe mate! Kapai!

[74LesPaul]

We lost something when we went to short boards. I surfed during the transition period. Loved my shorter 7' 4" G & S that Skip Frye shaped for me, and then I went to a 6' board. But I started on a long board and loved cross stepping to the nose. All that went away for several years. Long boards were no where to be seen in the water. The nose riding and the smoother approach is so cool.

[Cervicconstruction]

Lets not forget the tiny dynomo himself one of the greatest watermen to have lived. Donald Takayama his shapes over the years have been revered by those like myself had the pleasure of owning one one of the original Jacobs Takayama models.Well I didn't actually own it Donald let me use itat the " Steps " anytime I wanted.There hasn't been enough money minted i wouldn't give for just one day back then i had no idea.

[1FiNsUp1]

Well if you never had "the pleasure" of owning one why do you say so. Hey, trash talk aside, Donald and David were and still are fanstastic surfers. But there werae and are better surfers, especially in Leucadia/Encinitas in the 60's/70's

[Cervicconstruction]

@1FiNsUp1

True dat but I worked at MTB for a time got to count D.T. as a friend and anytime I cared to use his original D.T. model I was welcome to it was my mistake and should have rewritten the post to correct that error.

[1FiNsUp1]

@Cervicconstruction Ah,thats no big thing, its probably more jelousy than anything on my part haha....a day or two back then would be absolutely priceless

[rhinohippo]

@Cervicconstruction I rode a Tak and it was smooth, about 9'8" totally red. I rode it for several years until it was so trashed and drove home one morning to find my surf buds using it as a target in a knife throwing contest, the day man, the day

[thesupertonesnyc]

yo ?

[1FiNsUp1]

I don't want to be hurting any feelings but as good as Nuuhiwa was there were guys who he couldent hold a candle to... Corky Caroll, Mike Doyle, Phil Edwards, Dora, Billy Hamilton, Lance Carson...he was a great noserider...but there were many other better surfers

[shamanjon]

Corky Carroll??? pleeeeze. All hat,no cattle.

[1FiNsUp1]

Read Mike Doyle's autobiography, Morning Glass, there are manay mentions of great surfers from Dora to BK. He never mentions David...thats intersting...

[bkw8000]

I can definitely see where you are coming from and I respect that. All of these guys were great surfers and did so much for the sport. Although, besides possibly Carson and Dora, none of these guys can touch Nuuhiwa when it comes to noseriding. I'm pretty sure I have seen every old surf flick at least a hundred times, and in my opinion I think Joey Cabell and Nuuhiwa were the best as far as their noseriding style.

[Cervicconstruction]

He was the Tiger Woods of his day.

It all came to a screaching halt during the 72 world Chapionships at O.B. pier on the Sun. of the finals some real gigantic A.Holes stole his fish and nailed it to the pier.

Well because these cowards did what they did David left the scene for good.

[benstephens113]

they nailed his fish on the pier because he tried to take credit for making the fish so the guy who did did it.

[thebirdman47]

Saw & met David at the East Coast Championships in '67. He was awesome....even on our (usually) less than perfect surf in Florida. He tore it up! Can somebody tell me whatever happened to him? Does he still ride?

[tonoadams]

i'm from Vancouver Island Canada, when I was 16 (1990) we drove down to Mexico and ended up meeting David and his buddies, we had no idea who he was, we were smoking weed n shooting tequila having a great time at David's pad with him n his ol buddies. After Mex we were back in Cali, I fell in love with longboarding and bought one of the first issues of longboarder magazine, of course it had something on David, I was like shit man we just partied with that guy at his house!

[toyznstuff]

my 2nd good board was a Dyno swallow tail. used to see Nuuhiwa pull up to the cliffs/golden west st. in his white rolls & surf there when he came out with his fish tails. there was a great point break there almost all of the time (great when a swell came in), no parking meters & you could go out & not have a bunch of 'tards tryin' to get in your wave. i haven't been as happy as when i used to surf...

[chocolatcats]

I went to school w/ David. He lives in Cabo with my other friend Don Brown aka "Mr. Cute Green Eyes and butter blonde hair"

[LifesaGardenDigit1]

GreaT clip from a classy dude! Longboards will always rule the surf!

[realjersey]

Awesome , that's how surfing should be .

[yahowa57]

One of a handful of Classic Longboarders from the 60's who justifies a ten minute tribute. Such a unique style and gifted athlete who just makes it look so easy that 10:37 barely does him justice. A great soundtrack(far as I'm concerned). Thanks for this compilation and post!