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Downing noticed that surfers were becoming reckless and getting injured after trying to surf 25-foot waves. [3] Consequently, Downing built "The Rocket", a surfboard with a removable fin, and thus revolutionized the surfboard and surfing. [4] [5] This redwood board is considered the first real big-wave gun, a board able to ride a large wave. [6]
George Greenough was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Hamilton Perkins Greenough and Helen Marie Greenough, née Jensen.George’s father, Hamilton Perkins Greenough, spent part of his career as a shipwright, building wooden picket boats for the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage is divided into three events. "Street Skate Session", "Big Wave Encounter", and "Wood and Water Rage". In Street Skate Session, players choose either Joe Cool or Tiki Man and attempt to complete a timed linear obstacle course on a skateboard, evading obstacles and scoring points.
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Milius invented the Bear brand of surfboard as a fictional brand to be used in the movie, [16] and even had surfboards made and arranged for a Californian designer to create a logo. The logo, a red diamond with a bear in it, features prominently throughout the movie, on shop windows, T-shirts, car windows and on surfboards.
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David Earl Weber (August 18, 1938, in Denver, Colorado – January 6, 1993), known as Dewey Weber, was an American surfer, a popular surfing film subject, and a successful surfboard manufacturing businessman. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he distinguished himself with a surfing style unique at the outset of that era.
In Oahu, he served as a draftsman and mapmaker, was a member of the Army surf team [5] and sold his sketches to tourists. [14] There he made his first film, Surf. He subsequently made the films Surf Safari (1959), Big Wednesday (1961), Going My Wave (1962), [4] Surf Fever, The Angry Sea (1963), Surf Classics (1964), and Pacific Vibrations (1970 ...