We'd like to pay respects to George Greenough, the godfather of modern surfing and a surfing revolutionary in the 1960's. With the long, peeling right-handed point break at Rincon, Greenough had the perfect playground to experiment with his kneeboard, named Velo, carving tighter turns and covering more face on the wave than anyone else at the time. His radical surfing style, combined with his intuitive design of the flex fin (based off of the fins on a blue fin tuna) pushed the limits of surfing in the late 60's and helped bring about the Shortboard Revolution. Greenough was also a pioneer in surf cinema and photography, mounting his 35mm camera to the front of his board and shooting perspective footage of surfing, capturing the first in-the-barrel footage - 40 years before GoPro was even a brain child.
George bottom turning on his kneeboard, "Velo"
