Endless Summer

, see Endless Summer (album). <TABLE class=infobox style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; WIDTH: 20em; TEXT-ALIGN: left" cellSpacing=2><TBODY><TR><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 110%" align=middle colSpan=2>The Endless Summer</TD></TR><TR><TH style="FONT-SIZE: 90%" align=middle colSpan=2> </TH></TR><TR><TH>Directed by</TH><TD>Bruce Brown</TD></TR><TR><TH>Produced by</TH><TD>Bruce Brown</TD></TR><TR><TH>Written by</TH><TD>Bruce Brown</TD></TR><TR><TH>Starring</TH><TD>Mike Hynson
Robert August
Miki Dora</TD></TR><TR><TH>Music by</TH><TD>The Sandals</TD></TR><TR><TH>Distributed by</TH><TD>Image Entertainment</TD></TR><TR><TH>Release date</TH><TD>15 June 1966</TD></TR><TR><TH>Running time</TH><TD>95 min.</TD></TR><TR><TH>Language</TH><TD>English</TD></TR><TR><TH style="FONT-SIZE: 100%" align=middle colSpan=2>IMDb profile</TH></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential films of the surf movie genre, creating and defining an entire category of cinema which has endured

Loved it, love the title and always wanted a store with that name! Now you're talking my language....they did a remake back in like 1995 I believe, my last endless summer, living a block from the atlantic ocean.

I know Bruce and Robert very well, and rip Mika was one my tennis students.

Quick story about the late Mika Dora the great longboard rider. Guy was wanted by the FBI, Interpole and everybody else for bouncing countless checks in France and USA and was on the run for years. The whole time he was going by the name of Mickey and living under a tree at a park in NewPort Beach, I use to hit tennis balls and surf with him everyday. Mickey was pretty bizzare use to have a coloring book with him and crayons and had a greyhound dog he named Silver Boy Bullet.

Railbird said:

I know Bruce and Robert very well, and rip Mika was one my tennis students.

Quick story about the late Mika Dora the great longboard rider. Guy was wanted by the FBI, Interpole and everybody else for bouncing countless checks in France and USA and was on the run for years. The whole time he was going by the name of Mickey and living under a tree at a park in NewPort Beach, I use to hit tennis balls and surf with him everyday. Mickey was pretty bizzare use to have a coloring book with him and crayons and had a greyhound dog he named Silver Boy Bullet.

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LOL gotta love a lifelong beach bum...classic story.

I played highschool and college baseball with Roberts son Sam who played in Astro oragnization.

endless summer 2 soundtrack is pretty good too

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..good vibrations..!!!

gl

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</TD><TD vAlign=top bgColor=#d4c1a3>For Robert August, you’d have to wonder if it’s been all downhill since that fateful day in the Indian Ocean back in 1963. After all, The Endless Summer’s Cape St. Francis segment has become a sort of shorthand for the perfect surfing experience, surviving nearly 40 years of changing tastes with equal amounts of aplomb and naivete.

Even the most jaded modern surfers catch their breath when they stumble onto those jade cylinders rolling through at Bruce’s Beauties.

One of filmmaker Bruce Brown’s strokes of genius was found in his casting. Mike Hynson, a streetwise sharp from San Diego, played the Golden Boy with an edge. But it was the equally handsome dark-haired kid from Seal Beach who audiences really connected with. Robert August represented the everyman. He came off well mannered, well prepared, and well scrubbed, but always with a wry grin… like he was recalling some off-color joke.

When it came to surfing, August performed with a competent style that let you know that this was no average 18-year-old. Robert’s surfing showed restraint and maturity; a drop-knee here, a nose ride there, but he seemed to surf waves like one act plays—a self-contained work from take-off to kickout. Rolling his stone-flat 10’4" Jacobs into trim, the skinny kid who dreamed of becoming a dentist laid down tracks that many contemporary longboard surfers would kill for.

While Endless Summer achieved worldwide acclaim, August’s life didn’t change all that much. In the early ’60s, million-dollar endorsement deals had yet to be invented, and August pursued a living as a surfboard salesman, then as a shaper. August managed to carve out a long-standing niche in the board market and today his label is one of the most successful in the business.

When not shaping stateside, August spends time at his home in Costa Rica and his own personal Endless Summer.

- Scott Hulet
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