& Surfing
Redman-Carr, Melanie & Browsing
Plain-spoken pro surfer from Busselton, Western Australia; earth-rated #two in 2001 and 2006. Redman-Carr was born (1975) and elevated in Busselton, and started browsing at age 10. Raised on the punishing reef surf on the Margaret River region, the slender regularfooter (five' seven", 127 lbs) executed ideal when problems received big and effective; she was the 1st female to regularly surf the notoriously shallow waves within the Box, not significantly from her residence.
As a competitor, Redman-Carr was some thing of a late-bloomer; she turned a complete-time Qualified in 1993, but did not earn an function until 1999. Browsing described Redman-Carr that 12 months as a "no-frills region Lady," and he or she was occasionally critical of each earth tour and her have achievements. "From time to time I think I accustomed to surf better Once i was seventeen," she advised the journal. "You've extra self confidence once you initially get started out. You have not been crushed and put down a great deal."
Redman-Carr continued to place very well on the whole world tour, ending fourth in 1999, sixth in 2000, runner-up in 2001 (to Layne Beachley), and third in 2002. For 2 years, commencing in 2004, Redman-Carr fell out of the very best 10, but in 2005 she concluded 3rd. In a very surge that prompted a Surfer headline studying "Exactly what the Hell Bought Into Melanie Redman-Carr?" the 30-yr-previous vet received opening three functions in 2006—at Duranbah, Cloudbreak, and Teahupoo—on her approach to inserting runner-up in the ultimate rankings, once more to Layne Beachley.
In 2009, 1 12 months immediately after retiring as a full-time Professional and getting a infant, the 33-calendar year-old Redman-Carr entered and received an event at Margaret River, her nearby split, beating planet tour headliners Carissa Moore, Coco Ho and Sofia Mulanovich.
Redman-Carr appeared in a little variety of surf video clips, such as Our Turn (2000) and Tropical Madness (2001).
(Movie) Melanie Redman-Carr Observe Video clip
Melanie Redman-Carr, Honolua, 2002. Image: Tom Servais VIEW Impression
Melanie Redman-Carr, Cloudbreak, 2006. Photo: Tostee / ASP See Graphic
Melanie Redman-Carr, 2006. Photo: Tom Servais Look at Picture
Melanie Redman-Carr, the Box, 1999. Photograph: http://surfingCornwall.com Holtzman See Impression
Melanie Redman-Carr, Cornwall, 2005 See Picture
Background of Browsing
·Beachley, Layne
·Georgeson-Hedges, Chelsea
·Ho, Coco
·Margaret River
·Moore, Carissa
·Mulanovich, Sofia
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Interviews
·Chelsea Georgeson
·Layne Beachley
·Neridah Falconer
Movies
·Melanie Redman-Carr
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Semmens, Nigel & Surfing
Lanky regularfooter from Newquay, in Cornwall, England; Britain's dominant surfer during the early late '70s and early '80s. Semmens was born (1957) and raised in Newquay, the hub of English browsing, and started Driving waves at age 12. At sixteen he dropped outside of university so that you can travel and contend, and put in the vast majority of that Wintertime surfing in Morocco. "We obtained terrific waves on the journey, and it taught me loads. Timing, trimming, just ways to experience a board effectively. And In addition it form of gave me a lack of dread, due to the fact at that age you see a wave and there's no considered the rocks or regardless of what Risk you’re Placing oneself in. You merely Believe, ‘I wanna ride that wave!’”
Semmens returned property to get the juniors division from the British National Titles, and went on to get English Titles four moments, from 1977 to 1980, together with the 'seventy nine British Title, as well as '81 European Title. He also completed 7th from the 1980 Environment Amateur Championships, in France. (Semmens wasn't so fortunate in his first stop by to Hawaii, for the 'seventy seven Smirnoff Pro, exactly where he drew Wayne Bartholomew, Gerry Lopez and Barry Kanaiaupuni in Spherical A single and was removed.)
He received 4 consecutive English national titles from 1977 to 1980, was the eu novice winner in 1981, and put seventh inside the 1980 World Browsing Championships. Semmens then turned one of several to start with European pro surfers, competing briefly on the world tour in 1982 and 1983.
Semmens started shaping surfboards in 1975, and has actually been Doing work for Ocean Magic Surfboards considering that 1977.
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Sumpter, Rod & Surfing
Country-hopping surfer and surf entrepreneur from Cornwall, England; sixties title-winner in Australia, The us, Wonderful Britain, and Ireland, plus the sport's only quad-national winner. Sumpter was born (1947) in Watford, England, the son of an coverage salesman, moved along with his spouse and children at age 5 to Sydney, Australia, and commenced surfing in 1961 at fourteen. Two a long time afterwards the gangly regularfooter received the juniors division on the Australian Invitational Surfing Championships.
Sumpter (extensive called "Gopher" for his oversized entrance teeth) started dividing his time between Sydney and Southern California; in 1964 he gained the juniors in The us Browsing Championships, As well as in 1965 he competed Using the American team at the planet Browsing Championships in Peru. He also traveled to Jersey inside the British Channel Islands, winning the inaugural Wonderful Britain National Championships.
Sumpter moved again to England in 1966, and along with his aggressive Aussie-design and style turns and a present for noseriding—complemented by a clean-speaking raconteur allure—he built a profound impression around the budding English browsing scene. Sumpter was employed by Bilbo Surfboards in Cornwall and commenced shaping his personal Union Jack signature product, which grew to become an enormous results adhering to his fifth-position finish (whilst symbolizing Fantastic Britain) from the 1966 Entire world Championships in California.
Two a long time later on, in a sophisticated set of situations, Sumpter won the Irish Countrywide Championships and rode for Eire while in the 1968 Environment Championships in Puerto Rico. To the 1970 Planet Championships in Australia, he Again represented Terrific Britain. He dropped outside of competitive surfing not lengthy just after finishing 3rd in the 1971 Makaha Worldwide.
Sumpter acquired additional recognize in 1967, when he rode a tidal bore wave up the Severn River, west of Bristol, for much more than two miles. Two a long time afterwards, he experimented with, without having Substantially achievement, to ride a bore up the icy-chilly Bay of Fundy. Also in 1969, Sumpter created British Surfer, the initial domestic surf magazine; it lasted just 6 troubles. Sumpter also filmed and manufactured surf videos, releasing 7 titles concerning 1967 and 1979, together with Occur Surf With Me (1967), Freeform (1970), and Oceans (1972). Critics were not amazed. "Rodney Sumpter," a person surf journal reviewer noted in an evaluation for Freeform, "proves he's a lot more polished during the waves than driving the digicam." (David Sumpter, his brother, fared much the exact same along with his 1974 surf movie On Any Morning.)
Not counting his personal films, Sumpter appeared in numerous surf videos, such as Browsing the Southern Cross (1963), The Endless Summertime (1966), and The recent Generation (1968). International Surfing magazine named him as Britain's major surfer in its 1966 Hall of Fame Awards, and he is highlighted prominently in You need to have Been Listed here Yesterday: The Roots of British Surfing, revealed in 1994. Sumpter is married, has a person little one, and lives in Cornwall.
Sumpter created a quick return to Competitors Using the British Amateur Crew in the 1990 World Contest in Japan, but was eliminated inside the early rounds. He retained his hand in surf media: Surf Artwork! Graphics and Memborabilia, Sumpter's coffee table ebook, was printed in 2006, as well as a remastered DVD version of Come Surf With me arrived out in 2006.
(VIDEO) Rod Sumpter WATCH Online video
Rod Sumpter VIEW IMAGE
Wakeboarding, 1965 Check out Impression
1967 Irish Championships. Photo: Alan Wealthy Perspective Graphic
Rod Sumpter See Impression
Rod Sumpter, Bay of Fundy, 1969 Check out Picture
Historical past of Surfing
·Infinite Summer season, The
·England
·Makaha Worldwide Surfing Championships
·river surfing
·Severn Bore
·Sumpter, Rod
·surf flicks
·Environment Surfing Championships 1965
·Earth Surfing Championships 1966
·Globe Browsing Championships 1968
·Globe Browsing Championships 1970
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Background of Browsing
·Bismarck that has a Tan
Interviews
·Bruce Brown
·Nat Youthful (1974)
·Rod Sumpter
Weblog
·Experience, THY NAME IS MAD JACK CHURCHILL
Videos
·Rod Sumpter
·Earth Browsing Championships, 1966
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Harvey, Richard (1948 – )& Surfing
Very well-traveled Australian surfer and boardmaker from Queensland's Gold Coast; winner on the 1973 Australian National Titles. Harvey was born (1948) in Sydney, and began riding waves at age ten, not long just after his household moved to Avalon Beach front.
A clean, classy goofyfooter, keen on lengthy again-arching trim strains, Harvey finished 3rd inside the 1969 Australian Titles, held at Margaret River, powering winner Nat Young and runner-up Peter Drouyn. The following 12 months Harvey moved for the Gold Coastline to open a Shane Surfboards factory-showroom outlet.
While in the 1973 Aussie Titles, also held at Margaret River—in big, windy, screening ailments—Harvey ran the sector and received the occasion, earning himself an invite to that yr's Pipeline Masters and Duke Kahanamoku Typical. That very same calendar year, the 24-year-aged Harvey visited Bali, exactly where he probably became the first to ride the explosive but perfect remaining-breaking tubes of Padang Padang. (Australian Tony Eltherington has also been cited as the initial Padang surfer.) "A barrel arrived into check out that was so crazy I staggered," Harvey afterwards wrote in Australia's Surfing Lifetime journal, recalling his initial watch of your dangerously shallow Padang. He rode 3 waves, designed them all, and was relieved to call it quits. "I was worried. I did not know wherever the just take-off space was, did not know In the event the reef would suck dry, didn't know if it had been even makable . . ."
Harvey also gained the debut Ma and Pa Bendall Surf Common in 1974, defeating Wayne Bartholomew, Terry Fitzgerald, Gerry Lopez and Simon Anderson, amongst Other individuals.
Havey was among the finest-travelled Aussie surfers from the ten years, and his Harvey Surfboards afterwards turned considered one of the most well-liked Gold Coast labels. He appeared in a small amount of surf movies, like Splashdown (1969) and Freeform (1972). His book The Browsing Background of Queensland was printed in 1980.
For 15 yrs, beginning in 1988, Harvey worked being an accessory designer for Billabong Australia.
Richard Harvey, Padang. Photograph: Dick Hoole Check out Picture
Richard Harvey Look at Picture
Richard Harvey, Cornwall, 1975 Perspective IMAGE
Richard Harvey, Burleigh Heads, 1984. Photograph: Bruce Channon See Impression
Richard Harvey, Uluwatu, 1975. Picture: Dick Hoole Check out Impression
Richard Harvey, 1976 Check out Graphic
Heritage of Surfing
·Anderson, Simon
·Australian Nationwide Titles
·Bartholomew, Wayne
·Bendall, Ma and Pa
·Billabong
·Drouyn, Peter
·Fitzgerald, Terry
·Harvey, Richard
·Lopez, Gerry
·Padang Padang
·Youthful, Nat (Aust)
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Record of Browsing
·At Participate in while in the Fields of Allah
Interviews
·Peter Drouyn
·Terry Fitzgerald
·Wayne Bartholomew
Contests
·1973 Pipeline Masters
Contributing To This Entry
Dick Hoole
www.browsing.la