STYLE !!! WHO HAS IT ? WHO HASN'T ? WHY ?

Post by **TMC** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:51 pm

oldman wrote:I used to have style, then they changed what style was. Not what I've got isn't stylish, and what's stylish seems weird and scary to me......................................

It happened to me and it will happen to you too.....

Also i'm surprised no one has mentioned machado yet. Not todays machado but late 90s machado.

Post by **poostance** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:27 pm

^ machado for sure

LUKE EGAN

Post by **oldman** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:29 pm

Yeah I like Luke Egan's style. It's not that he was such a fluid mover, but more his economy of movement and power with it that added up to style in my books.

Post by **Lucky Al** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:13 pm

luke egan and rob machado make a nice contrast: the butcher with his cleavers and hooks and the painter with his fine camel-hair brush. rob really needs to pay more attention to his attire, though - get out of boardshorts and thongs and into dove-grey suits and patent-leather pumps.

Post by **mustkillmulloway** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:04 pm

well....trying be intelligent

it can change from break too break

like u may be stylist at kirra..

but a poser at d-bah

it's so heavily depent on conditioning i think

given that and

p.s if style was on ebay......i'd be the highest bidder

Post by **pig champion** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:16 pm

taj burrow has the style of a hunchbacked rat

andy & bruce irons both ooze style

bobby martinez has his own style ... rough around the edges but great to watch

parko great forehand, ugly backhand

dayyan neve ... great fluid style with loads of power

Post by **DV8** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:11 am

There was a saffa called Frankie Obelhozer who did the search with Curren and Powelly ............that dude had style in buckets .......maybe cause he hung with Curren so much .

Post by **rightbrainpositive** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:55 am

Agree with Wanto about Bobby M. I love the 'lines' he draws but I'm not sure if the way his body moves can be classified as 'good style'.

Besides the obvious names (Curren, Parko), I'm glad someone mentioned Luke Egan. Am I the only one who thinks he outsurfed Occy in that Brunswick section in the Occumentary?? Luke rips and looks good at the same time...

On a slightly different tangent, I love the 70/80's footage of Buttons and Bertleman. Probably not considered 'stylish' by the modern observer but pretty rad none the less.

"The Shanes" (Powell and Herring) deserve a mention too...

Post by **pridmore** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:31 pm

Curren
Archy
MP ( at Kirra or Goldy points )
Occ ( some would disagree but I think at Bells or J-Bay , no better )oh, yeah and that g-land footage in Filthy Habits ...epic !
Taylor Knox
Parko ( rare for a young guy to surf smooth and flowing these days )

Post by **DV8** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:38 pm

rightbrainpositive wrote: I'm glad someone mentioned Luke Egan. Am I the only one who thinks he outsurfed Occy in that Brunswick section in the Occumentary?? Luke rips and looks good at the same time...

Nope I'll give it to Louie also .

Post by **pridmore** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:48 pm

I saw Cheyne Horan onee time wearing a jacket that said POWER
+ GRACE
+ ATTITUDE
= STYLE
kinda true I reckon as long as the attitude is right...

I think the grace part is critical, its all gotta flow and be nice to watch...

Post by **wambie ripper** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:22 pm

what about female surfers???

Post by **wanto** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:39 pm

Post by **poostance** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:09 pm

^ Steph Gilmore has it

Post by **Nick Carroll** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:53 pm

Everyone's got their own style ...

but then again, everyone can sing, too.

Post by **oldman** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:02 pm

Nick Carroll wrote:Everyone's got their own style ...

but then again, everyone can sing, too.

Yeah I remember having this argument with you before Nick.

Everyone has their own style, but only a few have style.

Everyone has a voice, but only a few can sing.

Post by **wanto** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:40 pm

everyone can fart, but only mine don't smell bad.

Post by **Nick Carroll** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:39 am

Well here's one for you cnuts...

do you think Style is visible from the inside as well as the outside?

ie, claiming Bruce, Curren et al ... you look at them surf and go "yeah! that's Style"...but do you think they can tell?

ie does Style alter the internal surfing experience?

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