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Redman-Carr, Melanie & Surfing
Simple-spoken pro surfer from Busselton, Western Australia; earth-rated #two in 2001 and 2006. Redman-Carr was born (1975) and raised in Busselton, and started browsing at age ten. Lifted within the punishing reef surf of your Margaret River space, the slender regularfooter (five' seven", 127 pounds) executed ideal when disorders bought significant and strong; she was the main girl to routinely surf the notoriously shallow waves in the Box, not significantly from her household.
To be a competitor, Redman-Carr was a thing of the late-bloomer; she turned an entire-time professional in 1993, but did not win an occasion till 1999. Browsing described Redman-Carr that 12 months like a "no-frills nation girl," and she was occasionally essential of both equally world tour and her individual achievements. "At times I believe I utilized to surf far better when I was 17," she advised the magazine. "You have additional self-assurance whenever you initially get started out. You haven't been overwhelmed and put down a great deal of."
Redman-Carr continued to put very well on the globe tour, ending fourth in 1999, sixth in 2000, runner-up in 2001 (to Layne Beachley), and 3rd in 2002. For two a long time, beginning in 2004, Redman-Carr fell away from the highest ten, but in 2005 she completed third. In the surge that prompted a Surfer headline reading "What The Hell Got Into Melanie Redman-Carr?" the thirty-12 months-aged vet won opening 3 occasions in 2006—at Duranbah, Cloudbreak, and Teahupoo—on her technique to placing runner-up in the ultimate rankings, once more to Layne Beachley.
In 2009, just http://surfingCornwall.com one yr immediately after retiring as a complete-time Professional and using a infant, the 33-12 months-aged Redman-Carr entered and received an celebration at Margaret River, her local break, beating environment tour headliners Carissa Moore, Coco Ho and Sofia Mulanovich.
Redman-Carr appeared in a small range of surf video clips, which include Our Turn (2000) and Tropical Madness (2001).
(Movie) Melanie Redman-Carr Look at Online video
Melanie Redman-Carr, Honolua, 2002. Photo: Tom Servais Watch Impression
Melanie Redman-Carr, Cloudbreak, 2006. Image: Tostee / ASP VIEW Graphic
Melanie Redman-Carr, 2006. Picture: Tom Servais Perspective Picture
Melanie Redman-Carr, the Box, 1999. Photo: Holtzman VIEW Graphic
Melanie Redman-Carr, Cornwall, 2005 Watch Graphic
History of Surfing
·Beachley, Layne
·Georgeson-Hedges, Chelsea
·Ho, Coco
·Margaret River
·Moore, Carissa
·Mulanovich, Sofia
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Interviews
·Chelsea Georgeson
·Layne Beachley
·Neridah Falconer
Films
·Melanie Redman-Carr
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Semmens, Nigel & Browsing
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 surfing, and commenced Driving waves at age 12. At sixteen he dropped from university in an effort to travel and compete, and invested almost all of that winter browsing in Morocco. "We obtained wonderful waves on the vacation, and it taught me loads. Timing, trimming, just tips on how to trip a board thoroughly. And Additionally, it form of gave me an absence of fear, simply because at that age the thing is a wave and there is no considered the rocks or what ever Risk you’re Placing oneself in. You simply Consider, ‘I wanna experience that wave!’”
Semmens returned home to gain the juniors division with the British National Titles, and went on to gain English Titles 4 instances, from 1977 to 1980, and also the 'seventy nine British Title, plus the '81 European Title. He also finished 7th in the 1980 World Novice Championships, in France. (Semmens wasn't so fortuitous in his very first go to to Hawaii, with the 'seventy seven Smirnoff Professional, where he drew Wayne Bartholomew, Gerry Lopez and Barry Kanaiaupuni in Spherical One and was eradicated.)
He received four consecutive English countrywide titles from 1977 to 1980, was the eu amateur champion in 1981, and put seventh in the 1980 Environment Surfing Championships. Semmens then grew to become one of many first European Professional surfers, competing briefly on the whole world tour in 1982 and 1983.
Semmens began shaping surfboards in 1975, and is working for Ocean Magic Surfboards due to the fact 1977.
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Sumpter, Rod & Surfing
Nation-hopping surfer and surf entrepreneur from Cornwall, England; 1960s title-winner in Australia, The united states, Wonderful Britain, and Eire, and the sport's only quad-countrywide champion. Sumpter was born (1947) in Watford, England, the son of an insurance plan salesman, moved together with his spouse and children at age five to Sydney, Australia, and commenced browsing in 1961 at fourteen. Two many years afterwards the gangly regularfooter won the juniors division with the Australian Invitational Surfing Championships.
Sumpter (long often called "Gopher" for his outsized front teeth) began dividing his time between Sydney and Southern California; in 1964 he won the juniors in The us Browsing Championships, As well as in 1965 he competed While using the American team at the globe Browsing Championships in Peru. He also traveled to Jersey in the British Channel Islands, profitable the inaugural Fantastic Britain Nationwide Championships.
Sumpter moved again to England in 1966, and together with his intense Aussie-model turns and a gift for noseriding—complemented by a easy-conversing raconteur appeal—he produced a profound perception around the budding English surfing scene. Sumpter was employed by Bilbo Surfboards in Cornwall and commenced shaping his personal Union Jack signature model, which grew to become a huge good results pursuing his fifth-place complete (whilst symbolizing Terrific Britain) while in the 1966 World Championships in California.
Two years afterwards, in an advanced list of situations, Sumpter received the Irish Nationwide Championships and rode for Eire while in the 1968 Globe Championships in Puerto Rico. For the 1970 Planet Championships in Australia, he Again represented Wonderful Britain. He dropped outside of aggressive browsing not lengthy soon after finishing 3rd during the 1971 Makaha Worldwide.
Sumpter acquired further recognize in 1967, when he rode a tidal bore wave up the Severn River, west of Bristol, for over two miles. Two several years afterwards, he attempted, without Substantially accomplishment, to trip a bore up the icy-chilly Bay of Fundy. Also in 1969, Sumpter developed British Surfer, the primary domestic surf journal; it lasted just 6 troubles. Sumpter also filmed and produced surf films, releasing 7 titles involving 1967 and 1979, which includes Occur Surf With Me (1967), Freeform (1970), and Oceans (1972). Critics weren't impressed. "Rodney Sumpter," 1 surf magazine reviewer famous in an evaluation for Freeform, "proves he's much more polished inside the waves than behind the digital camera." (David Sumpter, his brother, fared Significantly precisely the same along with his 1974 surf movie On Any Early morning.)
Not counting his own films, Sumpter appeared in a number of surf films, which include Surfing the Southern Cross (1963), The Infinite Summer time (1966), and The Hot Technology (1968). Worldwide Browsing magazine named him as Britain's leading surfer in its 1966 Hall of Fame Awards, and he is showcased prominently in You Should Have Been Here Yesterday: The Roots of British Surfing, printed in 1994. Sumpter is married, has just one boy or girl, and life in Cornwall.
Sumpter created a short return to competition With all the British Amateur Team on the 1990 Environment Contest in Japan, but was eliminated in the early rounds. He stored his hand in surf media: Surf Artwork! Graphics and Memborabilia, Sumpter's espresso table book, was posted in 2006, as well as a remastered DVD Variation of Come Surf With me arrived out in 2006.
(Online video) Rod Sumpter Observe Online video
Rod Sumpter See Graphic
Wakeboarding, 1965 Watch Impression
1967 Irish Championships. Photograph: Alan Loaded See Impression
Rod Sumpter Check out IMAGE
Rod Sumpter, Bay of Fundy, 1969 Look at Graphic
Background of Surfing
·Countless Summer, The
·England
·Makaha International Surfing Championships
·river browsing
·Severn Bore
·Sumpter, Rod
·surf videos
·World Browsing Championships 1965
·Earth Surfing Championships 1966
·Environment Surfing Championships 1968
·World Browsing Championships 1970
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Background of Browsing
·Bismarck having a Tan
Interviews
·Bruce Brown
·Nat Youthful (1974)
·Rod Sumpter
Blog
·Journey, THY Identify IS MAD JACK CHURCHILL
Video clips
·Rod Sumpter
·Planet Browsing Championships, 1966
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Harvey, Richard (1948 – )& Surfing
Well-traveled Australian surfer and boardmaker from Queensland's Gold Coast; winner in the 1973 Australian Countrywide Titles. Harvey was born (1948) in Sydney, and commenced riding waves at age 10, not very long soon after his spouse and children moved to Avalon Beach front.
A sleek, trendy goofyfooter, fond of prolonged again-arching trim lines, Harvey finished third from the 1969 Australian Titles, held at Margaret River, behind winner Nat Youthful and runner-up Peter Drouyn. The next yr Harvey moved to your Gold Coast to open up a Shane Surfboards manufacturing unit-showroom outlet.
From the 1973 Aussie Titles, also held at Margaret River—in major, windy, tests problems—Harvey ran the sector and won the function, earning himself an invite to that 12 months's Pipeline Masters and Duke Kahanamoku Traditional. That same calendar year, the 24-calendar year-previous Harvey frequented Bali, wherever he probably turned the main to trip the explosive but excellent still left-breaking tubes of Padang Padang. (Australian Tony Eltherington has also been cited as the initial Padang surfer.) "A barrel came into watch which was so crazy I staggered," Harvey later on wrote in Australia's Browsing Everyday living journal, recalling his very first check out from the dangerously shallow Padang. He rode three waves, designed them all, and was relieved to contact it quits. "I used to be scared. I failed to know where by the take-off area was, failed to know If your reef would suck dry, failed to know if it absolutely was even makable . . ."
Harvey also won the debut Ma and Pa Bendall Surf Common in 1974, defeating Wayne Bartholomew, Terry Fitzgerald, Gerry Lopez and Simon Anderson, among the others.
Havey was one of the best-travelled Aussie surfers in the 10 years, and his Harvey Surfboards later became one among the preferred Gold Coastline labels. He appeared in a small number of surf movies, which include Splashdown (1969) and Freeform (1972). His guide The Surfing Heritage of Queensland was revealed in 1980.
For 15 yrs, starting off in 1988, Harvey worked as an accent designer for Billabong Australia.
Richard Harvey, Padang. Photograph: Dick Hoole Look at Picture
Richard Harvey See Picture
Richard Harvey, Cornwall, 1975 VIEW Graphic
Richard Harvey, Burleigh Heads, 1984. Photo: Bruce Channon See Graphic
Richard Harvey, Uluwatu, 1975. Photo: Dick Hoole Watch IMAGE
Richard Harvey, 1976 Perspective Graphic
Record of Browsing
·Anderson, Simon
·Australian Nationwide Titles
·Bartholomew, Wayne
·Bendall, Ma and Pa
·Billabong
·Drouyn, Peter
·Fitzgerald, Terry
·Harvey, Richard
·Lopez, Gerry
·Padang Padang
·Younger, Nat (Aust)
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Heritage of Browsing
·At Participate in from the Fields of Allah
Interviews
·Peter Drouyn
·Terry Fitzgerald
·Wayne Bartholomew
Contests
·1973 Pipeline Masters
Contributing To This Entry
Dick Hoole
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