"look, man"

I spoke to Marty yesterday and he was old Marty.He really loves the tails of his high jinks..Skip  he "said"tell them about are surf contest summer.So here goes Marty shows up at the Natural  Progression factory one day and gets Robbie Dick and I a side and says look there are all these long board contests coming this summer and we should go do them.This was 1983 or 1984 this is be for the new wave of long boarding stated.Even during the 1970,s I all ways still had a longboard laying around Jeff Ho made me a new one in 1974 a 8ft10" called the 12lb bass which  I would take to MALIBU on small days to surf first point which in 1970,s no one really surfed much because third was the wave and packed in back then.First was just old guys who did not what any thing to do with the new short boards.So now its the 1980,s and the first long board contest in years is going to take place at 15tstreetin DEL MAR.So here,s Marty at my house 3:30am Robbie Dick in tow with a rented station wagon packed with water and drinks plus a nice bottle of wine and some real glasses.  And we are off to the races so to speak.  Did I mention Marty was funding the whole thing.Yea tthat's Marty was my moneyman.  Now let me say surf contests were not my strong point.Marty and ROB how ever were all ways good contest surfers  but not me.  Both of them truth be know were very under rated surfers due to what ever politics that took place down at the surf rags and the fact they would surf a lot of private beaches out of the lime light.  So we are now at the beach and ready for my first heat and Marty is now my coach Dale Dobson is in my first heat along with some other hotshot guys so it looks like MR.Skip is in for a bad day.  Marty goes: look man

Skip Engblom