Sea Movies - Larry Bertlemann 16mm Shredding

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Sea Movies - Larry Bertlemann 16mm Shredding

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11 жыл бұрын

Episode 41
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Courtesy of theSURFnetwork, this episode of Sea Movies features 70's North Shore standout Larry Bertlemann. Known for his low, compact turns and explosive above the lip "Larry-als," He has been credited by the Dogtown crew as the single most influential person on their skating. When those guys were sinking into their boards on concrete curves, doing laybacks or looking to rise above the lip of their pool they were thinking of Larry. This clip provides a window into the future of surfing and skateboarding from that time period as he puts his "stinger" design shortboard through its paces.
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@adamchaifetz5876 Жыл бұрын

A man who shaped the style of surfing and skateboarding in the 70's

@swamihuman9395 9 ай бұрын

- In the 70's, we were all doing the "bert"" (slide) on the ramps! :) - So cool to see Bertlemann himself doing a "bert"

@matthewplaner5658 5 жыл бұрын

I love his style. Way ahead of his time. Still better than most of today’s surfers.

@takfam07 2 жыл бұрын

Love Super Session. I actually telephoned the late Hal Jepson back in the late '90s, had a nice chat. I sent him a check for around $20 and he sent me a VHS copy of Super Session. BTW this isn't Bertleman circa 1970, but more likely around 1975-76.

@eazye7457 2 жыл бұрын

Do you know what song this is?

@nobudgetshortfilms5510 15 күн бұрын

One of the most legendary to ever wax on a board. A game changer.

@mungejumper1306 8 жыл бұрын

I remember my first trip to Hawaii back in the mid 70's. I was just a kid but had a chance to see Larry & Buttons surf & I never saw anyone surf like that before. Both were amazing! These two were doing all the moves we see now on the world tour back in the 70's & on larger heavier boards! Then around 1977 I had a chance to meet both of them in southern California @ a surfing event & they were Friendly very humble guys & treated my Friends & I very nice. That's a very big deal for a kid!

@clafong9 5 жыл бұрын

Also saw him surf in Hawaii in the early 70's. He was the first 'pro' level surfer I'd seen and he was so much better than anyone else in the water it was amazing. Then back in CA I saw David Nuuhiwa live and was amazed again. Then saw Mike Purpus surf Malibu and it looked like he had a motor on the back of his board.

@paulsandor3522 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I was on Oahu (town) in 78 when I was a kid. Larry, Buttons and Mark Liddell just blew our mainland minds! We respected them and stayed out of their way. *every visiting surfer knows what I mean, haha.

@Krizzee 2 жыл бұрын

Did them bros get lots of girls like the surf movies show?

@eazye7457 2 жыл бұрын

Anyone know what song/version this is?

@razorsharpe3371 Жыл бұрын

The song is Waiting for the Bus by ZZ Top but it’s not them playing.

@billb1060 5 жыл бұрын

I grew up across the street from Swamis in Encinitas Ca. Surfed the beach break next to it a lot too. I was at the beach almost every day growing up. Pipes was the name of the break. It was a tiny day to small to surf so we were just hanging out smoking weed and being locals. That day the water was pretty cold and Bertelsmann showed up with Cheer Critchlow who was a local legend riding for Eddie Wright owner of Sunset surfboards (thank you Eddie for shaping the best board I ever owned). Can’t recall the year but mid seventies for sure and these guys showed up (Bertlemann sans a wetsuit) and just ripped. Was a game changer for me. Good times and good memories. RIP Mike Doyle.

@cristrob 3 жыл бұрын

Heavy! And this fin? At 70's? And the surfstyle? Visionary surfer

@WhiteNacho 7 жыл бұрын

Surfing ahead of his time.

@edgarmalveiro5315 6 жыл бұрын

Just imagine if they just had modern surfboards? They would shred it all the way...

@thecottage4493 2 жыл бұрын

Origin of the frontside slash on a skateboard! Hitting the lip!

@surfbouy 5 жыл бұрын

Bert has always been one of my all-time favorite surfers.

@KandMe1 6 жыл бұрын

So good to see that and hear the guy talk. Such and innovator in his day. The way he used to get down low and exploit the whole centre of gravity phenomenon. I used to get him and Reno Abellira mixed up. Thought they were both great but I'm realizing it was all the pics in the surf mags of Larry Bertlemann that impressed me. It was that bottom turn magnificent, just a thing of beauty he had perfected. Thanks for the clip great to hear him speak.

@sharktooth2888 6 жыл бұрын

So many skaters emulated him, back in the 80s.. so smooth, everything linked. I saw this vid years ago, cool to see again.

@dolbyderringer2225 6 жыл бұрын

Frick brah, just realized he went Switch at PIPE!??!

@Daynooooo 5 жыл бұрын

Surely one of the most bad ass waves ever caught!!

@dakine808shooter 4 жыл бұрын

Yea brah mean!! Lol and stylish too

@toiletpaper5770 4 жыл бұрын

Buttons used to go switch real good

@robdobson5056 5 жыл бұрын

Use to see him at Kaisers occasionally in early 70’s when I surfed there. He was one of my favorites...just shredded the place.

@Lotus-Son 6 жыл бұрын

His idea of "small" is a really good day here in SD for us. Fuck, Hawaii is just another planet for surfing

@marvinacklin792 4 жыл бұрын

What a great tribute to one of the greatest Hawaiian surfers!

@k1k2lee Жыл бұрын

Throw in the Jeff Hackman clips,a great Movie inspired me 70s interesting times on the North Shore 🙂 one of the first dragging his arm Technical and smooth cruising surfer. Hung his boards up early a ceased surfing??? I still have the dusted video and a load of surf Mags 😎

@edwarddorville309 8 жыл бұрын

No leash brother, old school.

@jimventry5509 2 жыл бұрын

Larry was always smiling. Such raw, natural talent. Switchfoot at Pipe? No big ting! Not sure who captioned the clip, but this movie came out in 1975. Footage is likely from 1974 at the oldest. Not 1970.

@mateolopez4611 5 жыл бұрын

awesome surfin he was years ahead , surfin 2 to 20feet , switchfootmadness , tryin airs , inspiring dogtowsk8 champs, use of a gopro, in less than 5 minutes video , a Maestro. great post thanks...

@thorsden5562 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I learned to surf in Hatteras, NC back in the 70's as a kid. Growing up in the 60's and 70's was just awesome and a much freer time. Surfer Magazine had pull-out posters of so many greats that I used to hang on my bedroom walls. One of my favorites was Gerry Lopez. Larry Bertlman was terrific.

@tenaciouslifeform 8 жыл бұрын

Shoots!! Larry was the BEST. My friend Frenchy (Claudette LaMontagne) and he came by my place one day in Orlando as he was touring back in '84. He was on the cover of Surfer or Surfing. We looked at my surf mag collection for the afternoon and he signed the cover of my mag. Where is he now?

@KaiserSoze-dp1hw 4 ай бұрын

Total legend

@jphedley 9 жыл бұрын

LB catching a rail and then going body-surfing is so cool. What a great attitude.

@benweichiba 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this , I watched The Cosmic Children 100s of times growing up , and was lucky to have the pleasure of meeting Hal Jepsen in Oceanside as a grom...

@sl101d5 4 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite 70s surf clip, Bertlemann rocks!!

@eazye7457 2 жыл бұрын

Do you know what song/version this is?

@razorsharpe3371 Жыл бұрын

@Easy E The song is Waiting for the Bus by ZZ Top

@eazye7457 Жыл бұрын

@@razorsharpe3371 do you what version or from what concert because it’s not the studio album version. Being to figure this out for a while.

@Geoffcwest 7 жыл бұрын

legend, respect to this man

@jhavajoe3792 3 жыл бұрын

Yup. A Great and ahead of his time. Back then, the big bucks weren't around as much with sponsors and contests. He'd be sitting pretty by then. Never mind- always an unrecognized guy in every field, but people still know.

@rickroberts1198 Жыл бұрын

Larry the man

@nanonanooo5 3 жыл бұрын

NO LEGGIE, great water men in Larry's time . poetry in motion . So cool .

@Alpha-Andromeda 4 жыл бұрын

One of the best!!! Aloha Larry ❤️❤️

@rapgawd8909 8 жыл бұрын

he makes stand up barrels switch.....and i gotta say he seems like such a stoked person.

@lasker31 7 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing, a genuine stoked smile caught on camera.

@Nobodyimportant696 5 жыл бұрын

amazing he can surf like that on a thick ass single fin

@brandonpham819 10 жыл бұрын

dat go pro doe

@FrancisMossang 3 жыл бұрын

Came here after Jack Dorsey tweeted this link on Twitter 🙌

@ninoachcar9426 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you Hal and Larry "The Great".

@marcoa.dearaujo3204 Жыл бұрын

Legend

@marcelboogaard5449 6 жыл бұрын

First time I noticed Larry surfing frontside on waves going left or right. That helmet he’s wearing is Tony Alva’s.

@originalseed6744 3 жыл бұрын

Hey that's so cool, I'll check it out again

@TheFletchandSebShow 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah man.

@hitachicordoba 10 жыл бұрын

the King of Style.

@Folgrin 4 жыл бұрын

1970’s go pro haha nice

@latentsea 3 жыл бұрын

GSAP (gunsight aim point camera.) military. 16mm. 100 foot loads.

@eyeswideopen935 2 жыл бұрын

What""!! Getting barrelled that deep - SWITCH???? LEGEND!!!

@captainamerica3531 Жыл бұрын

Sweet!

@pete3773 5 жыл бұрын

Come for the surf, stay for the kickin' ZZ Top cover.

@NicholasHerriman 2 жыл бұрын

I was rocking out to that too. Also sounds like a bit of a musical 'Strange Brew'.

@eazye7457 2 жыл бұрын

Do any of you guys know who did this or what version it is? I also thought it sounded like Clapton. Please get back if you know, been searching for this for a while.

@Produto_Ideal Жыл бұрын

Styleeeeeee

@williamhanley7031 Жыл бұрын

Switch stance pipe. Guy was the master of the squatting bottum turn. Just don't make em like this anymore. God bless Larry . Famous now for the bert slide on a skateboard. Kids in Ohio know what a bertleman is. This guy has spread his talent all over the world

@biglee8832 4 ай бұрын

Salute!!!

@TheDude68305 11 ай бұрын

@4:01 This cat has got a really early version of a GoPro strapped to his helmet and that really cool period correct peace symbol hand with the American flag on it. I used to have a patch like that I'm one of my old t-shirts that got stolen from me at Woodstock 94 along with a couple of other items.

@jlutie2943 Жыл бұрын

If Larry was 20 years old in 2023 he would be #1

@greedygreggor 2 жыл бұрын

so rad x

@OspreyVision 2 жыл бұрын

Super Cool 😎🤙

@BlaineLewis625 Жыл бұрын

Wow, Larry was wearing on his head the first GoPro camera.

@ubetucan2747 Жыл бұрын

No leggies, this was a time when finishing the wave was almost as important as taking off if you wanted to avoid swimming in after your board. Style & smoothness mattered as much as being radical. Skate parks were still a thought bubble back then and were mostly industrial complexes and drainage systems. Blown away by the progression of surfing in regards to what is happening in big waves and slabs as well as the aerial hi-jinx. This was the stuff of dreams and where are now is due the incremental advances of individual surfers pushing the boundaries. I remember watching this clip at the local surf movie cinema and hooting along with the rest of the now much aged grommies.

@edgomez8270 3 жыл бұрын

The face of a happy person.

@ramonalfaro3252 3 жыл бұрын

He can shred concrete too! Damn. Beautiful style.

@flowdellytrey 3 жыл бұрын

Cool 🙌

@cudavrage 5 жыл бұрын

Bertelmann on an Aipa Stinger!

@quintbromley2112 9 жыл бұрын

Style for days.

@73gmiller 3 жыл бұрын

Like poetry in motion

@ricardoleyraud7991 6 жыл бұрын

Rubberman, king of style in and out of the water !! The only guy i AM fan...

@jett7499 3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Rubber-man! Few like him ever.

@user-vl4zg3oc7j Жыл бұрын

LB is da Man !!! Low cutbacks !!!

@RNicolasRuvalcaba 4 жыл бұрын

Style master!!

@jgmopar 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder how crazy these guys would rip if they had our modern boards of today back then. Our would they loose there style and flow with a modern board of toady. Bertlemann was one of my favorites when I started surfing back in 1976

@hahahahahahahahahahahahaha7725 3 жыл бұрын

I practiced the bertlmen cut back for years as a young grom.

@djsurf Жыл бұрын

slater got his style here -

@fernandomaron87 Жыл бұрын

Also from Buttons Kaluhiokalani, who Kelly was a big fan and copied his carving 360s from

@kerryemmerson9845 10 жыл бұрын

Larry you stoned boy.

@allsidecostarica 3 жыл бұрын

That skate move he does at end is called a Bertlemann.

@matthew3823 3 жыл бұрын

amazing

@MarlonFuentesCreative 5 жыл бұрын

So amazing

@DrewEllisHerbal Жыл бұрын

Love Larry Bertleman!!! Does anyone know the name of this tune or who did it..

@Nitromessiah Жыл бұрын

it's a very close rip off of ZZ Top's Waitin For The Bus

@Wyattbauerr 9 ай бұрын

Sounds like robin trower kinda do you know who did the cover

@williamhanley7031 Жыл бұрын

Board is so narrow. Crazy days backnthen

@pacifikattitudemoorea174 4 жыл бұрын

King...

@HailFastcore666 10 жыл бұрын

so righteous.

@user-sd7qt3hy8l 9 жыл бұрын

Lords of Dogtown brought me here =)

@harveydhindsa1578 7 жыл бұрын

CHICKEN SALAD The orginal Z Boy

@Alpha-Andromeda 4 жыл бұрын

How boring for you that that’s how you found Da Rubber Man

@BenCamp13 11 күн бұрын

Which model gopro was he using when he was skating Ulus?

@Bloodandiron86 3 жыл бұрын

Just moved into a new house with a place that has a surf shop near by and a beach that is only a 1.75m away that not many people go to. Might try and surf

@surfzion 5 жыл бұрын

So cool.!!!

@abrown5526 7 жыл бұрын

Yea Larry ❤ Legend with style like hot butter sliding on toast. Mmmmm

@SimplyMEHHH 10 жыл бұрын

Damn dude I want that old school skateboard he was riding

@haroldbray8463 Жыл бұрын

MY CUZZIN' IS A RIPPAH!

@SDBARTENDER1 7 жыл бұрын

Dat style doe.

@gary467 4 жыл бұрын

Back then that was the shit, believe he's nickname was Rubberman one of the first to go top to bottom top to bottom

@krishanlalbansal4245 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone here after Jack's recommendations?

@toiletpaper5770 4 жыл бұрын

So thats why they all liked him

@brianrapp2883 10 жыл бұрын

1975 Paul rapp my dad from usc and del mat made go for it with my pal hal jepsen and Larry bertelman

@rchancock 5 жыл бұрын

It's fun to wonder what if. What if Larry was born 30 years later and had the advantage of 3 fin technology and smaller and lighter boards? Wow can you imagine?