SUNDAY JOINT, 10-7-2018: CLAUDE, KONG, AND CHAPPY
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Hey All,
“Sunday Joint” is the new name for what has so far been called (yawn) the “Encyclopedia of Surfing Newsletter.” The “joint” here refers not to a blunt, but rather a big all-in meal served on Sunday afternoon for gathered friends and family. Or actually, what the hell, it refers to the blunt and meal both, and a juke joint too—and this newsletter.
The latest History of Surfing chapter is “An Explosion of Talent,” and it focuses mostly on Gary Elkerton and Mark Occhilupo. On Instagram, I posted a tight-cropped version of this Hugh McLeod pic of Kong and sidekick Chappy Jennings, which is the surfiest Dead End Kids thing ever caught on film. I like the full-frame version you see here, because of the pure filth on the boys’ feet, which I swear I did not Photoshop. Even the Dead End Kids would have kicked Chappy out of the clubhouse if he walked in with those feet.
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Claude Codgen is the latest addition to Above the Roar. Mike Tabeling said that Claude was the David Nuuhiwa of East Coast surfing. See what you think, here’s a new Codgen video, which really takes off when Claude paddles out on his brand-new vee-bottom, I’m guessing in the spring of 1968, and you see him actually figuring out, wave by wave, how to begin to ride this radical new equipment.
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Thanks for reading, everyone, and see you next week!
Matt
[Photos: Hugh McLeod, Ron Stoner]