Watch: Colin Herlihy finless on the outer reefs
Colin Herlihy is an ex-pro booger from the US East Coast. Fella has been riding stand up for a while but late last year he went back to finless, this time on a replica of a 1937 Hot Curl - a short-lived design that featured a deep vee through the tail.
Paddling in early, Herlihy sets the tail into the trough and finds his angle, the shots with the Mokuleia Range in the background conjuring a primitive sense of Hawaii. Albeit one with a jet ski in the channel capturing the action.
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Now we know why they invented the fin!
Best thing about that was the audio
More like 3:30 ....the end
I liked the filming also.
It wasn’t your sterile team / high performance angles but it wasn’t your faux soul solar flare garbage.
I liked seeing the hills.
Who was that band ? They’ve got a big future in front of them.
.........behind them Blowin, thankfully.
He makes that look easy, so hard to control...
Bet that would've felt good.
Worth a watch for the novelty factor, had a real old school feel to it (apart from the Jestski), but got old pretty fast.
I enjoyed it. Cool track too, are they new?
Bet old mate did a fair bit of swimming that day.
Far out, I reckon that was pretty damn good. Gauging the comments leads me to understand how we all get varying degrees of pleasure from surfing. I myself would be happy to have had a crack at that interpretation.
Looking back to the land was a great perspective too.
Wally might have taken a ski ride for the fun of it had they been available, bit smellier than an outrigger but the novelty value surely would not have been lost on him.
...well I enjoyed it. Mastering a Hot Curl is something else and it would have been a heavy beast too. They weren't powder puff waves either.
Good for 30 seconds but couldn't watch the whole thing as I needed to stay upright.
Forgot all about the surfing and got lost in a forgotten Floyd moment
Forgot all about the surfing and got lost in a forgotten Floyd moment
What is a "pro-booger"?
Surely gut sliders do not get paid for that........
If they do I think I will take up rap dancing.
Good to see something very different.
Finless board but no hyndesque spins done there...