Yeah I never appreciated Kong's surfing until I saw him surfing Margs mainbreak. Taking off way inside on a wave about 30 foot face on a very big ugly afternoon in the early 90's. Bloke was a bloody good big wave surfer & it was guys that surfed big waves well that impressed me the most. But up until that time I did not appreciate Kong's surfing & he damn well pissed me off paddling in front of me at South point in 1992, causing me too pull back & breaking one of my all time favourite boards.
Mark Richards - my first inspiration & vhs video recording from wide world of sports surfing big Sunset.
Tom Carrol - beat Mark Richards in about 1983 at big Sunset & was also on my self recorded surfing compilation I watched over & over before going for a surf.
Occy - not on my vhs surfing compilation but often featured on surf vids we hired from the local video store. I always loved his snappy under the lip cutbacks to set up a barrel. First saw it at Triggs point during a world pro surf comp they used to have there back in the 80's & then several more times on the surgeons table reef at Margs main break.
Plenty of other people really, but apart from them another standout for me would be Dane Reynolds. Its awesome how he just makes everything look so easy & he's not surfing so seriously all the time. His video's are really fun to watch as a result
Ryan Burch for now as well
