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William Aloysius Keane: "Yesterday is History - Tomorrow is a Mystery - And Today is a Gift..."
Hunter S Thompson: "Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting 'Holy sh*t…what a ride!"
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A little bit of history from Doug Moranville - -
Branding Iron
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The photo below marks the first time my wave height reports became more hyperbole than factual -
My reporting - obviously - has gone down hill from here
[even calling the wave height as "
this 35 footer" makes me sound
like some
morning television info babe -
this was the first and last time I used "
footer" as an adjective or noun for describing wave heights!]
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Photo by Glen Fye of me, BA : WindanSea 1969 Photo by Ron Stoner of me, BA : Black's Cover 1964 Surfer Magazine
Photo Tom Clark's Mom : BA©®™, Bill Andrews©®™, Big Pink©®™ : La Jolla Shores ~ 1958 : First surfing photo of me - AND -
Most Importantly - after almost 60 years, I am finally able to confront my hideous nickname without wanting to go off the cliff at Black's [naked and on fire]
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Finally, I have a bit more time on my hands and found this photo - I forget who took the photo, below of Maynard's.
The photo has been passed around for years, so as soon as I discover who the Photo Eddy is, I will note photo credit.
The photo sure brings back a flood of memories
Some good memories, some not so good memories, and more than just a few memories are downright nightmarish
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Hot Curl David
Julie 1
WindanSea Surf Club's Day At The Beach For Special Surfers
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I'm recovering from a total left hip replacement about a month ago [09 Jan 2014]
- HOWEVER -
This is what I'm currently feeling -
preparing for back surgery in about 6 weeks:
Bill Andrews + Flotation Device = Who needs pain meds when the ocean is available?
More Photos: Only A Surfer Knows The Feeling...
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Looking back at my experiences for more than the past 50 years or so, I guess I followed Hunter S. Thompson's whacked out advice in at least one way:
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting 'Holy
sh*t…what a ride!"
[
censored because the only readers of this drivel are my mom, and my grandkids]
04 April 2014
Prior to my [very successful so far - so good] back surgery on 28 March 2014:
I posted some info on my Facebook account and below is how I responded to the words of encouragement:
BA's Notes -
Thank you to all the great words of encouragement and I am certainly looking forward to seeing everyone back in the lineup or as close to the lineup as possible.
I think that I have finally learned - at least in my world - the fact that those of us who surf, those who look forward to the next time they are in the ocean, their friends, and offspring, share a common link:
Almost every thought we have somehow has a beginning, a recency, or a dream in which there is distinct and direct linkage to our mother, the ocean.
[Obviously I'm not very good at expressing my emotions]
This is a special bond, of which, in my experience, I know that I will never forget and for which I will be eternally thankful!
Oh yeah, on a more traditional BA line of thought, I just happen to have some Nurse Betty Outfits [don't ask why] available which I will be happy to offer to the appropriate home care giver[s], and I'll even throw in a few surf lessons.
BA
25 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
24 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
23 March 2014
BA's Notes -
In the almost 60 years in which I have been surfing, a common statement from all surfers who have spent a bit of time out of the lineup say: “It sure feels good to be surfing / to be in the water again.”
I know that I have certainly said this more than once, err, maybe more than 1,000 times, but never before have I meant it like I do now.
Following total hip replacement a couple of months ago, with back surgery coming up on the 28th, shoulder repair in the near future, surfer’s ear surgery during back surgery recovery, and the discovery of a new malady [pretty rare I’ve learned] Heterotopic Ossification in the left hip.
This is not a poor me message, but one of how stoked I am to be able to still paddle out among friends and feel the cathartic benefit of ocean immersion.
I have never felt such spiritual, physical, emotional, sensual relief as I have felt hanging off my board, as weightless as possible without being in space.
Thank you to my friends in the water who have put up with my attempts to avoid clogging the lineup [everyone knows how I feel about lineup cloggers] and to my docs who have put up with my crying and sniveling like a little baby!
BA
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews
Wind**Sea Bomb
Emma
21 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews Photos La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 1
Doc Dale stroking into an Archie's Left
Photo of Bill Andrews by Larry Crow - La Jolla Shores
19 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews photos in La Jolla's Arena
Album 1
Bill Andrews photos in La Jolla's Arena
Album 2
Bill Andrews photos in La Jolla's Arena
Album 3
Peter Wave Loch lip floating in The Arena
Lee speeding in The Arena
Brandon speeding in The Arena
Brandon : One of a select few - La Jolla Reef Style Masters
Peter Wave Loch : One of a select few - La Jolla Reef Style Masters
18 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews Photos La Reefs
Album 1
Sea Snake Reef : Unridden as always
17 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews Photos Top Secret La Jolla Reefs
Album 1
No takers on this wave at Testosterones
La Jolla Lines
16 March 2014
BA's Notes
BA
Bill Andrews Photos of "Kob's Pirates"
Album 1
Bill Andrews Photos of "Kob's Pirates"
Album 2
Marc and his new board's maiden voyage at 'Kob's 1
Marc and his new board's maiden voyage at 'Kob's 2
Matt -
Surf Inside - Murphy
Granddaughter Audie
Grandson Bam Bam
15 March 2014
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BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reef Photos Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reef Photos Album 2
Emma - The smile which lights the way from La Jolla to Paris
Doc Julie
Top Secret La Jolla Reef
Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy
14 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reef Photos Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reef Photos Album 2
La Jolla Sunset
The Foot of Death
Wheels thru the years at Wind**Sea
Surfing at a top secret La Jolla Reef
12 March 2014
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BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
Noon in The Arena
Bub
Winner: Congratulations Lucas keep the streak going!
10 March 2014
BA's Notes
BA
08 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Actually I'm kindda jealous -
We talked about how cool this would have been more than 50 years ago - but chances were ZERO!
Archie's Unridden
06 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews Photos Lunch Break La Jolla Reefs
Album 1
Bill Andrews Photos Lunch Break La Jolla Reefs
Album 2
Inside Frontside Cutback
in The Arena
Classic Stall
in The Arena
Backside Bounce
in The Arena
04 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 2
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 3
02 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
AM Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
AM - PM Album 2
Bill Andrews La Jolla's Top Secret Reefs Photos
PM Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla's Top Secret Reefs Photos
PM Album 2
For reference, March after months of north swells, Sand Out, In The Arena
For reference, August after a couple of weeks of south swells, Sand In, In The Arena
Cool Daddy Scotty - Way Cool Son Max
Low tide La Jolla Shores
Anitra - La Jolla Shores
So far so good on a White House Right 1
End of the line on a White House Right 2
La Jolla Cove - The Day After - There have been many days like today - VERY VERY FEW like the day before [naturally I do not have photos of Saturday's La Jolla Cove waves]
La Jolla Cove - The Day After - There have been many days like today - VERY VERY FEW like the day before [naturally I do not have photos of Saturday's La Jolla Cove waves]
Directly offshore from subsidized housing, Barrio La Jolla, a very difficult wave to master
01 March 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
28 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 2
Scripps Pier / Tourists / Surfer in the rain
South Wind + North Swell + Low Tide = White House Rights
25 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews Photos La Jolla Reefs
Album 1
Saxon
Peter - Saxon
Commercial Photo Shoot - Did the city receive any $$ for this?
24 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
23 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 1
Dale
22 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 2
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 3
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 4
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 5
David Hot Curl / Hot Curl David
Sasha
21 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 2
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 3
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 4
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 5
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 6
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 7
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 8
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 9
Jason
Nick
Doc Julie
Jacob
20 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Photos
Album 1
Tim
19 February 2014
BA's Notes -
When I was a La Jolla Shores Gremmie in the 1950's, I was part of a group of beginners, all living within walking distance of The Shores.
The "Rules" of surfing were very clear then, as they should be now: basically, look both ways before you take off, don't drop in on someone already riding the wave, hang on to your board - pretty simple -
Less simple was developing one's surfing style.
Speaking for myself, my style developed primarily by watching the WindanSea Guys - especially my good friend Joe Trotter - when they visited [rarely, thank goodness] The Shores.
How one held their hands as they rode the wave would generate either style points or derision.
My hypothesis has always been that the proper way to hold one's hands were as if you were a bullfighter.
I think that the WindanSea
Guys were influenced by their trips to the bullring in Tijuana, and for some, their trips to Spain, where they studied the bullfighters' style
If you were to compare the current crop of top local La Jolla surfers, and their surfing style, to the "style" of La Jolla's surfing pioneers of the fifties, I think you would see that
the hand / arm positioning has not changed at all [my opinion only]
Gracias.
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 2
Lee
Lee
Jeff
18 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Photos
Album 1
17 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
Chilli
Hot Curl David
15 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 2
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 3
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 4
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 2
939 = My mom's [Mrs. Pink] Nightmare:
Mutant Harbor Seal clogging the lineup at Archie's
13 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews Top Secret La Jolla Reef Photos -
Album 1
Joe
12 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 1
Doc Dale - Backside Bottom Turn - Thank Goodness it's not a Pig Dog Rail Grab on a chest high La Jolla Shores wave
Larry Crow - Backside Style
Ron Jones - a true La Jolla Shores Stylemeister
10 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Photos
Album 2
'Nado Patrick
09 February 2014
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BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 2
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 3
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 4
Bill Andrews La Jolla Reefs Photos
Album 5
Bill Andrews La Jolla Photos Sunset In The Arena
Album 1
La Jolla Reef Sunset
04 February 2014
BA' Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 1
Bob Mitsven
La Jolla Shores Sunrise
02 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 1
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 2
Bill Andrews La Jolla Shores Photos
Album 3
Doc Dale
Tommy Boy
Bobby Mitsven
01 February 2014
BA's Notes -
BA
Bill Andrews La Jolla Photos
Album 1
BA' s Last Blast of BS:
"For me, I'd rather be an old 1/2 man still surfing South Wind Shores [below photos was a great day], the LJ Reefs and Black's,
than an old whole man surfing Tourmaline.
[No offence to old men and my friends at Tourmo]"
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