wydopen
onthepipe
- Location
- Goleta the Goodland
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Surfriding Herbie Fletcher circa 1987
- Thread starter wydopen
- Start date
Freakrider
X247
- Location
- Tampa Bay area
That last ride he was chased for a long way, looks like he hit some chop dropped down and eventually dragged behind the ski to avoid huge white water. Nice surf stance carving, he was "ahead of his time" for 87.
- Location
- Rincon Beach
I got to ride With Herbie a couple of times at my home break Oil Pies in the early 90s, truly a great guy
late 90s I towed him into a wave at Rincon, Pissed everyone off until they found out who they were flipping off
One of those skis from that clip is still in Santa Barbara
Db
late 90s I towed him into a wave at Rincon, Pissed everyone off until they found out who they were flipping off
One of those skis from that clip is still in Santa Barbara
Db
BruceSki
Formerly Motoman25
- Location
- Long Island
holy helll.... that last one was wild. He almost ate it bad. No vest on either.... What a nut!
- Location
- amarillo ,tx
those waves in waimea bay get huge, seen theme personaly.
sxi steve
Life's short, have fun.
- Location
- Clinton Twp, MI
WWWOOOWWWW!
I wonder if he is still ridin?
I wonder if he is still ridin?
- Location
- Largo, Fl
He's doing it all wrong... he is wearing shoes.
wydopen
onthepipe
- Location
- Goleta the Goodland
lol the difference is the guy actually knew how to swim...
plus im sure his astro deck "rad pads" wernt as grippy as what we run now
SkiDiggity
formerly kawirider142
i like the no vest. Flotation devise? what's that? haha
wydopen
onthepipe
- Location
- Goleta the Goodland
herbie dominated the north shore for nearly three decades...i think he can do whatever he wants...plus as he said in the video he would go out on days when it was closed out....
It was a joke, and btw, when I moved to Oahu in '92, there was no jetskiing on the North Shore permitted. (I even got a ticket and had to go to court for doing it once around Haleiwa, not in a surf zone and well away from shore) 3 decades is stretching it a bit. Jet Waves had to get special permits to film there---I missed hearing about them filming by a few weeks otherwise I would have been up there to watch.
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- Location
- Rincon Beach
jet skiing north shore surf in 84 got me a trip to the ER . 11 stitches in the chin.
pearled , hit bottom and put the handle pole into my face, I was having so much fun I didnt even know I had split my chin open until my friends saw it and told me I need to go to the hospital
pearled , hit bottom and put the handle pole into my face, I was having so much fun I didnt even know I had split my chin open until my friends saw it and told me I need to go to the hospital
wydopen
onthepipe
- Location
- Goleta the Goodland
I was talking about surfing. He was one of the pioneers in the 1960s and was still charging pipe into the early nineties on a longboard none the less..
- Location
- amarillo ,tx
yeah we used to ride on kaneohe side.
227
Its all about the surf!
- Location
- Oceanside, CA
I met Herbie Fletcher about 15 yrs ago while surfing at Lower Trestles and asked him if he still rode surf on his ski. He said he didn't. He didn't really give a reason why he quit and he seemed like he didn't really want/care to talk about skis. He came across as a little full of himself. Who knows, maybe I just caught him at a bad time. Either way I give big props to Herbie for being a pioneer of our sport, especially for big wave riding but it bums me out that he seemed to turn his back on the sport. Randy Laine, who rode with Herbie back in the day and has ridden even bigger surf at Todos Santos Island still rides with us regularly here in Oceanside.
- Location
- Fishkill+Brigantine
No vest lol my floresant yellow suit will protect me. I love retro vids