SURFER FALLING OFF CLIFF captured on film at The Hook, Santa Cruz, California + Classic surf session
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Surfer falls off a cliff and Tony Roberts captures it on film. 1985, he was filming friends surfing, perched halfway up the cliff, when he heard a surfboard fall just to his right. He swung the camera around and started filming as a surfer lost his footing, slipped and fell off the cliff, landing on the rocks below, breaking various bones and suffering major injuries. This went down on the Eastside of Santa Cruz, California, at the classic surf spot known as "The Hook", or "The Wild Hook" in the 70's and before. This right point at the base of Pleasure Point was the location of a famous brothel around the turn of the century: the name sake itself for "Pleasure Point". This is the closest surf spot in Santa Cruz to the freeway, Highway 1, which results in a funnel of the masses getting off the exit and are led straight to this iconic spot, infamous for it's crowded lineup and plenty of battles and brawls in the water. The Hook get's it's name from the thick kelp, known to snag one's board or leash like a hook. The ocean leads straight to tall cliffs, with stairways leading to the beach, that have evolved over the decades. But up until the 80's there were no stairs. only a sketchy, slippery trail up and down the cliff, where this Real Surf Story took place.
Featuring the surfing of Chris Green, Tim Ward, Chris Gallagher, John Hunter, Lars Hansen, and Marcel Soros.
Music:
"Soul Surfin'" by The Rhythm Kings
"I Knew a Guy" by Kevin MacLeod - licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommon...
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From the full length movie "Surf/Skate" (1986) by Tony Roberts coming soon to Real Surf Stories
Yes, fern, there are lots of sketchy trails down to the beach, but the Hook trail really was a big deal. It was steep, and muddy (from people's dripping, or in the winter from the rain) and with a really gnarly drop off to free-fall onto rocks below. You had to hold onto the roots from the cypress trees and swing from step to step. Back in the 60's the boards were long and heavy. Sometimes the older guys helped the younger guys by carrying their boards for them. While it really helped keep the crowds down, it was a lot of effort to get to the water. We would surf until the cold got to us, then light a fire on the rock shelf and warm up, then go out again. When the wetsuit was developed, that was a game changer. Now, with the stairs at Pleasure Point, 38th Ave and the Hook, it's pretty much crowd saturated every day. Back in the day, Doug Haut, Jay Sherman, Ed the Hawaiian, Rodger Adams and others were the dominant crew at the Hook (and the Point). By the way, was that Marcel Soros in the middle of that video? Young and Blond - with hair!! - and a big smile! Thanks, Real Surf Stories - for posting this video. It's fun to go down memory lane. I'm in my 70's now, but still surfing the Point. Back to a long board too. Memories are great, but living in the presen,t and appreciating today, is my happy place.
Blonde Grom is Jeff Lansing RIP
Palos Verdes "Indicator" is similar in treachery.
Ed the Hawaiian - thats a good one , used to hang at the cove just above , rode Ike boards
Nobody believes you when you tell about hanging on to tree roots. I was in the same year of school with Rodger Adams also Mike and Chris Cary and RedO and Larry and Roger Dunham and Alan Berandt and Kim Nomalini. I worked at a gas station where Pleasure Point Pizza is located in 68-69. Traded my longboard in for a set of golf clubs 5 years ago.
@@joedirt8625 It's Soros.
Great sounds. I moved to Santa Cruz August '75 right before the "Monster from New Zealand" hit. When that legendary swell hit I had days at Pleasure Point with nobody out. The season changed and I watched the first winter swell in October peaking wonderfully off Jack O'Niell's house at 38th Avenue. Nobody out as school had started. Paddled out and had a great session but when I tried to come in the tide was too high and I had to go all the way down to Shark's Cove to get in. My introduction to Santa Cruz.
keep Posting This Footage..... So Many Great Memories.
Will do brother
I lived in the apartments right next to the parking lot at this time. They were just starting to put the huge Boulders and stairs in then .I could stand on my balcony and watch the surfers. I was a bouncer at Skinny McDougals just up the street on Portola
Classic
Great footage by TR. Remember the cliff path well. I was less crowded.
ah..one of my favorite surf spots in SC back in the 90's
Caught some nice fish on the reef outside O’Neil’s house. Great stuff.
Yes, certainly a trip down Memory Lane. R.I.P. Lars.
Spauldo 🙌👑💯 All hail the king 🙌
RIP Big Mike Locatelli, Portola Surf Shop, i remember he was 19 the day he opened for business bummed out, sitting on the floor as inventory kept piling up from UPS, invoices all over the place. He looked like he regretted it, Lol. Mike was a wild man but the best and one helluva softball player too. Late 70's and early 80's were interesting but good times, some of us rescued guys during giant swells along Pleasure Point, whoever had a winch that worked. I remember working for the HarborMaster, he had the Legend, Harbor Bill's surfboards in the corner of his office. Santa Cruz had it all.
TRs first of many to follow Surf Flixs! Tony was working at Pizza My Heart in 'Tola when I got my VHS copy of Surf/Skate(and Skim)! Days gone by and missed! -damon
Yeah Damon! Do you still have a copy of Surf/Skate? I need to digitize it.
Had it on VHS. Gave it to my friend Eddy who was in the movie (Mexican surfer w dreads (RIP) who lived in Davenport) (he didn’t have dreads in the movie). Been wanting to see it again!!! Epic footage of SC in the 80’s
@@KaiserSoze-dp1hw I met Edy and Mapache at their home break in Mazatlan. We developed an amazing friendship, and I invited them to my home in Santa Cruz. To my surprise, Edy paddled across the border (literally), got a Greyhound bus to Santa Cruz and stayed with me. Mapache soon made it up as well. They loved it there, established families, and spent the rest of their lives in Santa Cruz and Davenport. So many stories. Edy is so missed.
Tony, Somethings you just don't get rid of or loan out. Never let anyone borrow your wife, surfboard, underwear or TR's SURF/SKATE !!! Tell me how to get it to you and in exchange for a Digital Copy its yours again ;-) -damon @@RealSurfStories
Great old shots of epic surfing. I got my Cook Bros. cruiser from Santa Cruz. Cool town.
Still have it???
Lars and Marcel not to mention Greenie at the bar, Classic!
Love the soundtrack....Ethiopian jazz at the end.
Lurch and Clifford!!!
Great stuff. Mustve gone up & down that 1000s of tmes. Seems like tge early 70’s treee roots were part of tge climb as trail washed out
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EVERYONE slid down the cliff, the metal spike hand and foot holds into rock were tricky, circa 65-69, high schoolers ,we were valley boys mostly all of us moved to s.c.,( sons of the aerospace tech valley boom, basically paved over the s.c. county as carpenters and contractors,) falls and spills happened daily, early mornings when dirt was muddy, the biggest fear was dinging those HEAVY BOARDS, but we got real good at ding repair, T.R.
Opening shot left to rt. Clifford Dinsmore, Ward Bowers, Chris Green. Car accident Chris Gallagher. Girl in bikinis at 26th I think is Desi. Great times mid 80S. Marcel Soros team O!
It was easy getting down to the hook until it rained😬
Many thx to John Mel (Freeline Design) for awesome boards🙏🤘👊
Yep Marcel S. I remembered him when I just watched this.
Great memory but the girl is definitely not Desi.
Back before freedom was locked down and risk was on your own terms like riding in the back of a pickup truck or riding without a helmet on your motorcycle. It was not too long ago when people refused to give up their freedom for a safer cage built by politicians regulating us into submission - the good ol days indeed.
It's a big world out there, "love it or leave it". I left it.
Reply to Brian W.
Danny Lightfoot? I thought he fell off the cliff at Depot hill above Cappy?
Where is Bruce? ....I recognized the surfer in the water. My friend also fell down that cliff.....it was especially sketchy after a good rain.
Bruce!!! I need to do a video of The Hook "Carps" (thats what we called the old guys 🤣)
@@RealSurfStories I knew all the old guy there, before I started surfing up north. Back then, a crowd was 20 people....lol
This is fuckin badass
awsome vid, is it just me or is the guy at 2:47 a Kolohe Andino look alike or what ? crazy
Just you Rick, I am not seeing it at all.
@@RealSurfStories Is that Peck Comstock?
I just saw Andino at the Lane a few months back..no resemblance there to me. I think it's mr body glove when he rode for O'neill.
What ever happened to Chris Gallagher?
Ask him if he had a girlfriend named Hilary around 1990...it wasn't my fault. she didn't tell me til afterwards. We were both in College in Fresno at a party. She must have liked SC surfers. good times
I surfed Pleasures and the Hook during the mid-60s. I do not believe the Hook was named this because of the kelp. It was called the Hook because of the shape of the wave. It would tweak right so fast that you didn't have time to turn and had to drop in already angled. I knew good surfers who, the first time they rode the place, they were convinced it was closing out, but it wasn't! Had to learn how to ride that wave.
🤣🤣🤣
Had to try to get up that cliff holding my nose to try to stop the blood from my face and a giant laceration from a board to the nose. Then straight to the Dominican for stiches.
Rest in peace, TUNA 🕊️
Was that Marcel?
No, it was not.
Haha yeah that’s Marcel Soros
Is it ryan burch? Lol
Fake.....it took 2 takes to film surfer falling at bottom. Notice hand prints in sand from first take , of landing on the sand. There are lots of cliffs in Santa Cruz where you just slide to bottom of cliff on your butt. This was a fake...but enjoyable scene .
🤣 Yeah right @jackie fitzpatrick I was a kid hand holding a super 8 camera shooting in bursts to conserve film and he fell out of view, and I started filming again as he slid into view. There were 100 eyewitnesses surfing that day and you think I staged the fire department/stretcher part? get outttaaaaa hea
Karen Alert!