Product Description

One of the greatest surfers of all time, Greg Noll has built a considerable reputation as master of surfboard making, or "shaping." Today, collectors and surfers alike prize his unique brand of board. Recently featured in the award-winning documentary feature, Riding Giants, "Da Bull," in his iconic black-and-white striped trunks, was emblematic of big surf and fearless commitment. In addition to being a pioneer of big-wave surfing, surf movies, and surf magazines, by the mid-1960s, Noll was one of the largest surfboard manufacturers in the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62822 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Honolulu Star Bulletin, March 2007
Leafing through the pages of "The Art of the Surfboard" wears you out, just from the sheer impact of Noll's personality. Kampion -- a longtime surf writer with a canny feel for the history of the sport -- pretty much captures the many facets of Noll's contributions to surfing and also resists the overheated surf-magazine puffery. Noll emerges not as a god, but as a talented guy good with both his hands and his brain. "Greg Noll: The Art of the Surfboard" zeroes in on Greg Noll and on the art of surfboard craftsmanship, and does so with savvy good humor.

Publishers Weekly, Notes From The Bookroom, March 30, 2007
There's a beautiful coffee-table book coming out from Gibbs Smith called Greg Noll: The Art of the Surfboard. It's got all the longboard designs from the prison-shorts, big-wave surfer.

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These Amazing, Speeding Objects!
The surfboard is both watercraft and work of art. Its sleek curves and lines are designed for high-performance travel upon the dynamic liquid medium of ocean swells and waves.
Greg Noll: The Art of the Surfboard tells the full story of the surfboard as realized through the hands and mind of a sur?ng legend, who has been hand-crafting surfboards for over 55 years. From simple balsa boards built for Malibu's small waves in the 1950s to sleek, streamlined dragsters designed for the giant winter surf on Oahu's North Shore,Greg Noll has lifted the art of the surfboard to a new plane. Utilizing rare and ancient woods (like koa and redwood) he re-creates the classic and important boards from the past.
This is the full story that answers who, how and why as manifested in the life and works of one of surfing's greatest riders and craftsmen.

Customer Reviews

Greg Noll-The art of the surfboard
A well put together effort. Surfing history has followed the icons of each era and the breaks they rode. Thru time, surfing has always respected the legends who scratched for the outside and rode big. Way to go guys, the most representative collection of surfing lore that I've seen. Thanks.

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Hello Hermosa Beach, Ca.
Having attended Pier Avenue School..across the street from Noll's surf shop, I have followed surfing since my first time out at Paddle Board Cove, or "The Cove" many moons ago. Excellent book and photos for those who really want to see the changes in board design along with the historical milestones of the surfing history.

Surfing has changed alot since Noll's and Jacob's shop on Pacific Coast Hiway. Most of the original guys are now in surfing heaven riding the milelong rollers.

I enjoyed the book and pick it up frequently to remind me of surfing in California during the 1960 and early 1970's. Yes, there was a time you could have a wave to yourself at Malibu, Rincon or Leo Carrillo State Beach..or "Secos"..or stop off at that place just south of County Line for a great hamburger, fries and a coke for about 2 bucks. How things have changed...And, where did I just come back from...surfing the northern Spanish coast...where I now live..truly "bitchin"

Amazing
An amazing book for those who really are in love with surfing : boards of legends, men of legends, pictures that make you dream about.
Everything is in there !