Where are they now ??????

[steve shearer]

Just a quick note
as the people we are talking about are real people that deserve some privacy, could we keep the info gossip free if possible?
Please only write something about someone that you know they wouldnt mind reading on the net about themself, within reason.
Cheers

The truth doesn't always reflect kindly on our former heroes/pin-up boys. I doubt anyone of those crew would be stoked to read the truth.....so should we tell lies to protect the guilty?
Oh,,,,that would make this just like a surfing magazine.
Rhetoric not reality.
Hypocrisy and duplicity always have a faint stench about them.
And the afflicted are not helped by any fraud, no matter how innocent the motive.
Steve

[marcus]

Just a quick note
as the people we are talking about are real people that deserve some privacy, could we keep the info gossip free if possible?
Please only write something about someone that you know they wouldnt mind reading on the net about themself, within reason.
Cheers

The truth doesn't always reflect kindly on our former heroes/pin-up boys. I doubt anyone of those crew would be stoked to read the truth.....so should we tell lies to protect the guilty?
Oh,,,,that would make this just like a surfing magazine.
Rhetoric not reality.
Hypocrisy and duplicity always have a faint stench about them.
And the afflicted are not helped by any fraud, no matter how innocent the motive.
Steve

yeah i see your point steve.
The thing is i know some pro surfers and bodyboarders, and the amount of bullshit rumours that get said about them is really amazing, from apparently not surfing anymore, apparent drug abuse and or mental conditions, apparently being gay... and some times its just not true.
I guess seeing the sad truth about heroes can show youth that even heroes make mistakes.
If we could keep the topic less from being like new idea it would be great.
maybe just keep in mind what damage you may be doing to someone if you exagerate the truth... i dont know.
Thanks for your point of view steve.

[dUg]

The truth doesn't always reflect kindly on our former heroes/pin-up boys.

Absolutely true.

Should we exclude certain individuals just in case *someone* knows them? Perhaps someone could publish a list of who is "off limits"? I thought the point of this thread was to see if anyone had any clues as to how our former heroes might have ended up?

As a microcosm of society and life in general, there will be happy endings, and tragic ones. Sometimes the truth ain't pretty... and the pro surfing circus has left it's fair share of sad clowns. No point in denying that.

[Nick Carroll]

Hmm, you can answer these questions without going in too deep.

Dog owns a surf shop in Cronulla, does well.

Freida is happy and living in Florida. Surfs a lot.

Wendy is happy and living on the Goldie. Doesn't surf much.

Richie Collins lives in CA, makes surfboards among other things.

Carwyn has a house in France that he rents out to travelling surfers.

Nick Wood was 16 when he won Bells, and is still the youngest male ever to win a WCT event.

Rob Bain works with O'Neill in Oz, doing well, his son Billy is a rising jnr star.

[dUg]

See? Nick gets it. Thanks Nick!

Good to hear that Freida still gets amongst it, shame about Wendy though. Wow... I just realised Wendy is 43 now.

Gee I wonder what Rick Gath does these days?

[Trev]

This might be going back a bit further than the original poster intended, but the attached clip shows Farrelly, Doyle, Dooley, Cabell and Richards from the 1964 Manly World Titles Final at Noosa in 1999.Nice footage, artistically intermingled with the 1964 stuff.
Joey Cabell would be almost 80 now.

http://www.coastwatch.com.au/SurfBeach/ ... hHome-346/

[the kalakau kid]

I can't vouch for his age but as far as I know Joey Cabell is still surfing and living in Hawaii. He detoured into windsurfing/sailing/tow-ins and most other things surf-related over the last decades after making a stack of cash with the ChartHouse restaurant chain ( I think). The Surfers Journal did a profile of him a few years ago but I can't recall all the details. He was pretty clearly someone who had done well at maintaining a comfortable and active surfing life although I think hes' been married a couple of times so not so smooth domestically I guess.

As an aside, Sunny Garcia married his daughter and they travelled together when Sunny was last serious about competition but they've split up now.

[WANDERER]

Sunny Garcia married his daughter...

oh dear... thats just sick... I've heard of cousins and second cousins, but your own daughter!

[Beanpole]

Thats a pretty big aside there
Don't think I'll be fronting him to see if its just gossip.

Apart from serious casualties its kind of reassuring for us everyday surfers to see that every surf star doesn't end up a multi million dollar soul surfer with shares in the big three and a music career on the side.

[the kalakau kid]

NN - I think thats the one although I didn't see the show.

W - Just to be clear, Sunny married Joeys daughter.........You clearly have too much time on your hands Paul. Reminds me of a joke about Richmond football club, Ben Cousins and Tasmanian virgins which is too crude to repeat. Not hard to work out if you use your imagination though.

B - the aside is a fact as far as I know. Saw an interview with Sunny and his new fiance in a recent Surfer Magazine so I think hes pretty much moved on.

[RickyG]

I saw a pic once of a guy out at big big Bells, caught inside and praying. I think it was a comp day.

Who was he?

I think I know the one you're talking about Dae: late sixties, resting his forearms on the board in a praying action, huge wall about to bear down on him?
Might have been a Witzig shot, probably of a national titles heat. Can't recall the surfer though
(BTW I think he'd been washed around to Winkipop)

[turtle]

As an aside, Sunny Garcia married his daughter and they travelled together when Sunny was last serious about competition but they've split up now.




can someone please explain this? i've tried to copy his roundhouse for ever

[Trev]

I must admit, TKK, I read that the sick way too.
However, marrying his (as in Joey Cabell's daughter) is much better.
In the video from 1999 Noosa Festival of Surfing, they say he (Joey Cabell ) is 70. So add 10 years and he's pretty close to 80.
Glad he's still surfing. Gives me another 20 years.
At Noosa he was as smooth as ever.

[swift]

What about Marcus Brabant..one time poster boy for Billabong?

Todd Holland is another that comes to mind?

[turtle]

Jeremy Byles

i think may have won the world cup around 1990, or came close to win.
my memory a bit patchy late 80's early 90's this guy was charger

[Dingus]

I saw a pic once of a guy out at big big Bells, caught inside and praying. I think it was a comp day.

Who was he?

I think I know the one you're talking about Dae: late sixties, resting his forearms on the board in a praying action, huge wall about to bear down on him?
Might have been a Witzig shot, probably of a national titles heat. Can't recall the surfer though
(BTW I think he'd been washed around to Winkipop)

That's the one. From memory he is facing to the right of the pic and the mountain is knocking at the front door. I'm hoping someone here may have been there and could set up the story. It's a bit of a tangent I know, but an interesting story from back then. I've been looking here and there over the last couple years trying to see more pics from that day.

[turtle]

^^ comp sponsor & year should do it?

[Dingus]

Ah well that's the problem Mr T.