Details:
Brand: Phil Edwards
Model: Honolulu
Length: 10’0"
Width: 22 3/4"
Thickness: 3 3/16"
Volume: N/A
Fins: Single Fin (included)
Construction: Poly
Shipping Cost: Shipping Unavailable - In Store Pick Up Only
Description:
The deck has a few to a usual amount of light pressures overall, with light front & back foot pressures.
The bottom has very few shallow pressures overall.
The deck has two small solarez repairs, multiple under-glass shatters on logo, and multiple light surface scratches, water tight.
The bottom has a few light scratches and a under-glass shatter towards nose.
The nose has a few pro-repairs that are water tight and two small cracks that are not water tight.
The tail has two small cracks, not water tight.
The left rail has a three inch and a one inch pro-repair, both are water tight. The right rail has a large crude repair, water tight. It also has two small under-glass cracks, water tight.
This board also comes with a single fin, see photos for details.
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Phil Edwards
Groundbreaking regularfooter from Dana Point, California; often described as the original power surfer for his water-gouging turns, and credited as the first person to ride Hawaii's Pipeline. It was Edwards, along with friend and part-time rival Mickey Dora, who created the technique, image, and language for surfing in America—and the rest of the surf world—from the mid-'50s to the mid-'60s. He wasn't the first surfer to turn consistently on the wave; by the time he was 20, however, he was turning harder, and with more authority, than anybody else, and was a consensus pick as the world's best surfer. Edwards often began his rides in a straight-backed, bowlegged trim stance. Hitting a likely spot on the wave, he'd quickly move his back foot to the tail of the board and stomp into a turn, leveraging with bent arms, knees, ankles, and hips, often pushing the move a little too far before letting up and recovering with a series of improvisational nods, feints, and shimmies. "It all seemed too radical, or too deep, or too much on edge," surf magazine publisher Steve Pezman said of Edwards's surfing. "But it was totally controlled. And it was like he understood something that no one else did."
In 1964 Edwards finished fourth in the United States Surfing Association final standings and second in the Peru International, and served as a judge in the World Surfing Championships. For the most part, though, he avoided surfing contests. His reputation was first earned through word of mouth, then from surf movies—he starred in Bud Browne's Cat on a Hot Foam Board (1959) and Gun Ho! (1963), among others—and surf magazines. Good-looking and articulate, Edwards was surfing's first media star, winning the inaugural Surfer Magazine Readers Poll Award in 1963, as well as the sport's first professional surfer, as Hobie Surfboards introduced the Phil Edwards signature model surfboard in 1963, and Hang Ten sportswear produced a Phil Edwards line of beachwear in 1964.Edwards's fame continued to grow. He was introduced as "the amazing Mr. Phil Edwards" in Bruce Brown's 1966 surf movie classic The Endless Summer, and the following year he was featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story. You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago, Edwards's Harper and Row autobiography—the first book of its type by a surfer—was published in 1967, and was excerpted for a six-page Saturday Evening Post feature.
