The Thrill Is Back: Martin Potter - video
The hair, the spray jobs, the guitar licks, it's Pottz at his 80s best. Young grubs can see what he was like before he morphed into Constable Care on the webcast preaching to surfers to play it safe.
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Comments
Are they Webbs around the 3:30 mark? Have to be.
For sure. Go the Greedy Gloves:)
I loved the Wave Warrior vids and was a huge Pottz fan. Wore my BH t-shirt till it was threadbare and then some prick knocked it off my clothesline. Good days.
What was that article in Derek Rielly's era Surfing life I recall"Pottz and his amazing fur back"Haha.Wow haven't seen that footage for year's ripping.Met him a couple of time's cool bloke.
"Thats what people want to see - they want to see spectacular moves, they want to see guys doing things that no ones done before, and if it doesn't go that way then it's gonna get real boring" - Potts 1988, or straight out of the 2015 commentary booth.
Great surfing.
Ha! Brought back some memories right there!
Got me syched to got surfing as well!
Pottzzz back to the future........needs a good waxing though.......great surfing.
Great Surfing. He's a man not a chick! What sort of waxing.......a Brazilian?:)
umm....didn't think it aged that well. Lots of speed floats and semi-foam climbs.
Yeah, but some fairly angular bottom turns to get there, which look like the boards had design to do, but sort of lost the grunt once getting up to the lip? A sign of board design at the time?
Boards look generally a lot flatter in the rocker.
Geez, the artwork makes 'em stand out though. Surely, one of the up an coming young crew, and their management team, can see an opportunity to aide in their marketing by heading down a similar path?
Oh FFS! You don't say Einstein! "The boards were flatter" dirrrr. The guy was an absolute B.O.S.S. For the era. That surfing is so progressive for its time and it ushered in kooks like you guys above. My god people are ignorant! What, the air in 1906 (or whatever) didn't surprise you?! You try and do one on that board!! And I said this over at the wankfest that is Stab Mag.....he was a Boss, so respect in the comment booth is due. All you ummin' and ahhhhing mouth breathers could do NO better! Record yourself adlibbing for 2 minutes. You'll be shocked at the playback.
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Yeah give the hirsute amongst us a break. This modern no hair paranoia needs to cease. We of hair everywhere are proud custodians of the real male gene not some girlly man one. And Freeride I thought it came across as the spring board for Slater and the movimentum mob.
Could do a cutback though!!
Fuk yeah takes me back fuk I wanna go surfing fuk I'm gonna keep saying fuk like I'm fukn 18 again when this came out .FUK loved those vids watched em til they were surfing in a snow storm. Fukn vcr
nostalgia's a helluva drug
Yeah but it's not what it used to be...
~bows deeply~
The fundamentals never get old. To see anyone linking bottom, top turns, cutbacks and floaters smoothly gets me stoked. Saw him tear apart Sth Whaley around the same time in the very early 90's.
Real surfing, real board sprays and real music..loved those wave warriors vids.
Oh. I am disappointed. I was hoping for a then and now clip. The burnings would have been hilarious.
That's better to watch than the new stuff
Pretty sure i paid off the the video store owners mortgage, for how many times i rented the wave warrior vids in the eighties.Never could find get them at the surf shop ......such awesome videos....... GOTCHA!
Absolute Mad Respect Pottz and Herbie! Fukn progressive surfing for the era. Love the back carpet too....wear it proud. Dora was an ape as well! Beautiful layback snap! Better than a lot on tour now.