My boyfriend ( husband) was a northshore surfer and I was attending Kailua High School in 1964. We attended a lot of surfing movies that was being produced, specifically Endless Summer. Back then, the producer R. Paul Allen had to narrate his movie for us. He was a pretty funny and interesting person, much of what he said as we watched the film at Roosevelt Cafeteria is pretty much what's in the the move today.
The surfers back then that I got to know was Bobby Cloutier, Filipe Pomar, and Barry Kanaiaupuni. Barry, Leslie and I went to the same high schoool. Later our girls went to the same school too. I still see Peter Cole at meetings on the northshore. Duke Kahanamoku was also a part of my life in Waikiki. Ronald Cloutier, Bobby's brother was like a brother to me and we hung out together. His father was Chubby Roland and the Backyard Gang.
The Vietname War entered my life on May 13, 1968 and my life turn to shit! The Phil Edwards got stored and we all turned ugly.
Post 911, I did a mural project of Hawaiian Women surfing in the 1800's for I am a ceramist. I was trying to give back to our community as well as heal from the whole 911 ordeal. I tried to share the importance of Hawaiian women surfing. They were naked ofcourse because kapa did not last in the water, nakedness was not a shame. It was frustrating because I did not get the support at all from the native Hawaiian leaders because they were naked!
I did the mural because I wanted to confront the film makers of 'Blue Crush' with their stealing of our native Hawaiian women surfing and replacing it with chicano and haole women. So I got into a lot of hakaka in trying to strighten out the history truth and the Hollywood version.
The naked truth, Filipe Pomar is a good salesman he can sell you a piece of the moon from personal experience. From what I am viewing on youtube, I believe that is what the Peruvians Haole's are trying to do. Cross check with Peter Cole, he is the oldest living I believe from the Duke Kahanomoku Surfing meets in Makaha.
Save Our Surf (SOS) was started in late 1964 by John Kelly, Jr. as a protest organization when plans were unveiled by the Army Corps of Engineers and the state of Hawaii to "broaden" the beaches of Waikiki. Using old fashioned political techniques- hand-bills, demonstrations and colorful presentations at public meetings - SOS quickly developed strong grassroots support in the community at large and expanded to mobilize forces from the community for confrontations with the establishment in the era of "people power"[1].
The principal spokesman for the group was John Kelly. As described by Kelly in 1971, the SOS strategy was based on three simple concepts: respect the intelligence of the people, get the facts to them and help the people develop an action program.[2]
Save Our Surf was instrumental in preventing offshore development around the Islands and saving 140 surfing sites between Pearl Harbor and Koko Head.
John Kelly, Jr. died on October 3, 2007 [3]. Some of the work of SOS is continued by the Surfrider Foundation, for instance the Save Ma'alaea campaign.
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An exploration into our surfing heritage in Peru. The film documents the country's ancient coastal dwelling civilizations, ancient surf craft, good waves and surfing as well as featuring interviews with Felipe Pomar, Fortunato Quesada, John Rodriguez Asti, Gabriel Aramburu, Gonzalo Velasco and Claudio Balducci. The film once completed will tour specific theaters then to DVD.