IT WAS...better back then
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Jerry Law always seemed to be there when it was going off. It was long before the time of video. You had to take your time, pick the right wave, and get it right.
See Claudie and Munson in their prime. Loehr taking surfing from the cruise mode and blowing up some lips. Who says you can't rip on a single fin. Who is to say Pat Mulhern and Crawford weren't ripping the inlet on their twin fins. See Kieth Gardner and later Freddy Grosskreutz riding fish just a short while after Mike Tabeling introduced them to the East Coast .
Pete Dooley dogged the humble Jerry Law for years to let him digitize these prize reels onto DV. Ask yourself the eternal surfers question. Didn't it used to be better? Check out these waves from the seventies. 1977 went off for months straight. See for yourself.

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IT WAS... BETTER BACK THEN
"Yeah, man, we had it all: great waves, no crowds, little pollution and development, a different stage of surfboard evolution every month, a nonexistent DEA, no disease--and we left your generation with this wasteland. Merry Christmas!" Though narrator Pete Dooley's title sounds a bit pompous to the post-baby boomer doom generation, It Was... Better Back Then features Jerry Law's never-before-seen archival footage of Greg Loehr, Mike Tabeling, Jeff Crawford, Regis Jupinko, Gary Propper, Claude Codgen, Richard Munson and more reaping an era that defined surfer cool--the '70s. The thing that pisses us off the most is that Dooley, no matter his intention, is kinda right. It was better back then. ESM
Ben Marcus reviews IT WAS ... better back then, in the volume thirteen issue of Longboard Magazine.
Kevin Welsh, master videographer and a big help with the IT WAS project, has the video available for online purchase
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