Lightning Bolt - a golden moment with Gerry Lopez
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- 50 Years of Surfing - a Golden Era
This year is all about sharing who we are.
This means we are celebrating the achievements of everyone who is part of Lightning Bolt’s history and life.
This golden era could only begin to be told by the ‘70s: the decade of the foundation of Lightning Bolt and the golden years of surfing.
We feel honored to be able to revisit and share these stories, in the first person, by Gerry Lopez, the co-founder of Lightning Bolt and a legendary surfer.
An informal conversation via video call - while going through a new reality imposed by the pandemic - was the starting point!
Here’s to fifty years of history: a golden era. And a lot more to come!
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My Dad shaped and glassed a homemade surfboard for me in our garage and I learned to surf on that sad sack of a board (sorry Dad, love you, you tried). So I bought my first ‘real’ surfboard from the Lightning Bolt shop on Kapiolani Blvd in 1971. 7’0” rounded pintail shaped by Bill Stonebraker. Cost $120.00. Orange bottom and rails, red pinstripes, white deck, orange bolt, glassed in fin. Beautiful work of art! Ridden mostly at Ehukai, Pupukea and Gas Chambers. Also at Populars and Makaha, before it was stolen from inside my car at Pokai Bay, Waianae many years ago. I missed that board dearly, may the surf gods wreak ‘bachi’ on whoever stole it! 🤙🏽
Gery Lopez the Surfers Surfer,Legend and a beautiful person and yes im a 70s,80s,90s early 2005 surfer,what a ride it was,mother earth is just amazing,greetings from the south west of Western Australia,take care.❤
Yeah Gerry I was shaping for Island Surfboards in PR and everyone wanted bolts on their boards! It was a special time. I was on the NShore early/mid 70’s living with Bernie at Sunset
Jerry just brought back the 1970's for me. The best decade of my life.
Gerry still the best to ever ride the pipeline started surfing in 74 and the bolt was well known in the Aussie surfing community.what a legend .🇦🇺✌️
Saw a lightning bold painted on a radar dish on the big island in the seventies. Thought wow, Lopez getting famous
Icon of the surf history The dream of any surfer L. B. the surfing " inside " !
Aloha! ⚡
It's an honor to have an icon that I grew up looking up to as an idol like El Señor Lopez as a local surfer in Baja Mexico 🇲🇽😎🤙🏼🌊🌴
*It's real good seeing Jerry, inspiring.*
*I look up and see; this video was released on my birthday........wadayaknow!*
*I'm 62, been in the water all my life, started surfing in 1970, so I can relate to everything Mr. Lopez is talking about.*
*My bosses knew if the waves were good, I wouldn't be coming in.*
*One time a weeks vacation turned into a month and a week, because all of January 1985 was insane in the islands. (my boss was OK with that)*
*BTW; I had a lightning bolt on my Patrillo, a Randy Lewis, and on a McConnell surfboard. (LOL, they were very cool looking)*
*Thank you, and sorry Jerry, I couldn't acquire one of your boards, demand was too high at the time.*
*Big waves (and time) have taken a toll on my body, I can't surf like I used to, and small waves don't blow my skirt up.*
*You're making me rethink getting back into it.*
*Thanks!*
This hits so close to home in so may aspects of life for many of us in the 70's and 80's...much wisdom was spoken with Lopez talking story like this. Soak it in and live Aloha.
Aloha ⚡
Guarans...well said. Mahalo.
Gerry Lopez = legend, period!
Old school 'Gold' surfing on a pure source🤙
Met him at SurfLine Hawaii years ago when he shaped boards for them. Even have one of his SurfLine board although it is rough. A man to look up to. Mahalo Gerry for always staying true to yourself
I'm 57 and I draw that Bolt allll the friggin' time too.
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Great message from one of the Greats! So much Soul and Aloha like waves, meant to be shared!!
Aloha ⚡
wonderful Gerry
Very good overview and said by Gerry, (Mr. Pipeline)!! Thanks, thanks, thanks!!
Nice one on so many levels. Captured so much of the awesome spirit of the times out on the reef. Mahalo fo’ dat, Gerry, and the wide soul surfer perspective. Love the nod to Duke Kahanamoku at the end. I remember his convertible Cadillac (or Lincoln) with the surfer hood ornament parked on Kalakaua Avenue all the time by the surfboard rental racks when I was a Waikiki paipo wall rat. He left it open top down and unlocked, never got a ticket, nobody ever stole anything out of it. Total respect. For you too. Aloha nui!
...actually I think maybe once someone stole the surfer hood ornament off the Duke’s car but word got out fast and it was quickly returned. An amazing time.
Kinda sad to hear that Gerry’s Dad hesitantly accepted him as a surfer. It sounds like he was quiet successful economically despite surfing not fitting the mold of success. I think it’s a lot harder for the vast majority now who fall in love with surfing, and never make anything of themselves in the industry or the, “real” world, as a result of so much dedicated to surfing, and the lifestyle. Even if you go pro and get on tour, what percentage of surfers, afterwards, have economically viable lifestyles in surfing? Gerry is a global icon. I grew up in the 80s, and remember how the 70s lingered into that decade. It may have been peripheral, but certainly influential.
Mahalo Gerry
In 1977 i was a Pearl Harbor submarine sailor. One of my shipmates was a Kaiua hometown boy. The boss told him "Why dont you take him and teach him to surf?" We went to Haleiwa one morning. Gerry showed up with some guys in a 72 Chevy Blazer K5. I couldnt paddle and couldnt surf. I cut Gerry Lopez off on a wave. The guy like disowned me because i cut Gerry Lopez off. I was from Alabama. I had no idea who he was
The movie 5 summer stories premiering in our high school gymnasium with the band Honk blairing with JERRY dropping into a 10 foot back Barrel at pipeline shooting out with the spit, he was and is our icon!
Killer hey Gerry you still living in Oregon ? I’m living in coos bay Oregon but probably gonna buy a little sugar shack around Eugene or something hopefully I will get to see you sometime. I used to live on the big island but Oregon is home now Shaka brah local motion. lol glad you are still hanging in there buddy hope everything is good for you. Cheers 🍻
I like his Costco foamie…..
What about Kingsley 🤷♂️
gerry just wants to sell cheap chinese foam boards so he can buy more villas in Uluwatu.
LOVE DA MANA, GERRY, ALOHA! Mahalo For That!
"Live and Surf With Aloha," LEGEND⬆️♾️💝🤗✌️🌬️💨🌊🏄💦🎶🤙😃☝️😌🪶