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Rumors are swirling about the origin of the logo Eclair Some say the bolt was a graphic metaphor for a particularly strong strain of traffic marijuana Hawaiian Islands in the 1960s.
In 60 and in the 70s, Hawaiian surfers were stimulated by the Shortboard Nat Young Revolution shook the world with his participation surf total, taking his foot nose and tail surfboards that have evolved shorter , lighter and faster by the season in Hawaii, this meant light mini-guns, narrow pintail supported that were a world away from elephant guns 10 feet in the mid 1960s.
Mini weapons allowed users to boldly go where none had gone before surfers deeper, faster, higher and lower deep in the pipeline gizzards, up in the lip at sunset, right in the backdoor at Pipeline.
And then there was Gerry Lopez standing May 8 and weighing perhaps 135 pounds, Lopez came flying out of the 60s and into the 1970s, swallowed up in the pipeline pin standing slack in the eye of the storm , which makes it something very difficult look like a cakewalk thousands of words and images swirled around Lopez pipeline, but Tom Curren could have said it was better to leave it as an arrow fly.
Lopez was cool surf image and calm the Pipeline when people took their sport back and take metro real surfers were dismayed by what the dominant culture had for surfing in the 1960 Frankie and Annette riding surfing wild bom da dip da bath tub was fake BS in the 1970s, suddenly, it was not cool to be cool be visible Lopez was an exception that the world was fascinated by a man who matched power pipeline and beauty with grace Lopez rapid contraction, German Japanese physiology was part of the law, but what was under his feet was also important.
Matt Warshaw detail the influence of Gerry Lopez as a figurehead in the Encyclopedia of Surfing godhead.
Lopez was the surfer most filmed of his generation - a long sequence Lopez to Pipeline was part of the movie almost every surf made between 1971 and 1978, including the morning of the Earth in 1972, five were Stories 1972 Going Surfin 1974 Super Session 1975 Tales from the Tube 1975 and the search for Tubular Swells 1977.
Lopez needed surfboards that were as slender, quick and fast as it was - then around 1970, Lopez made online experience with Team Hawaii Surf Jack Shipley store manager to form an elite shop for the best shapers of surfer Hawaii the symbol was the Lightning Bolt and energy symbol means the energy of Hawaiian surf but also the energy of the human and artistic physicality to make surfboards to ride this deeper energy, faster and more radical.
Gerry, BK, Reno Tom Parrish, considered the most influential shapers in the stable Lightning are surfers who imported, making surfboards that mattered, for surfers that mattered It was an honor to work for Lightning Bolt Tommy Nellis said it was a very democratic place they accept your advice as long as they have been accepted by the public didn t If your cards sale, it didn t matter who you were they appreciated the consistency and at that time in the surfboard business, it was easy to be consistent.
And the result is the energy Gerry Lopez dropping in to power or hula Pipeline Barry Kanaiaupuni in the bowl at sunset The logo Lightning thundered throughout Hawaii and reverberated across the Pacific and around the world a combination of sincere talent, perfect timing and clever marketing of a product required.
Beautiful, finely designed Hawaii guns were the basis of Lightning Bolt It was a surprisingly new era in surfing rapidly changing and spectacular surfing and free competition as the last contest Pipeline Masters cry that started with a card table and a megaphone in 1971 surfers and surfboards were incredibly rapid change, and the calendar clicked the months and seasons of the early 1970s, Lightning Bolt has become ubiquitous.
If a surfer was hot, put a bolt under their feet 70s, the company moved into clothing Nothing fancy, just practice trunks for surfing, and t-shirts cruise But the world wanted the energy Bolt and the clothing line has exploded like a wave spat in the pipeline.
All pictures on this page and Jeff Divine Art Brewer.
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