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Surfer stunt doubles

posted 13 years ago by jackboot
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Anyone know of the names for any of the surfer stunt doubles?

I thought I caught the famous "quasimoto" stance of the one and only Mickey Muñoz during one of the surfing segments.

Mickey Dora is credited with having been in the later F & A movies, starting with Muscle Beach Party. I see that he's listed among the stunt doubles for Beach Party, though as uncredited.

The legendary Greg Noll and Dora both do some of the stunt surfing in that **other** surfing movie, Ride The Wild Surf, with Mickey Dora intentionally wiping out on a good sized Waimea wave.

Anyway, some of the hotdog style surfing in Beach Party is fun to see and it would be nice if some more of the surfers who actually did these stunts got credit.

[–] nandomaron 13 years ago

Dude, Miki Dora did a lot of the surfing in THIS movie as well, including as Professor Robert, who Dora had to put an fake beard and a weird bath suit.
Also Dora appear as one of the beach crowd in the whole movie, including both Dick Dale music sequencies you can see him twisting and laughing with a girl in the crowd.

[–] jackboot 13 years ago

Hey, thanks for letting me know!

Have you ever seen the Dana Brown movie, Search For Surf? It's a compilation reel of all of Greg Noll's Search For Search movies from the 1950's and early 1960's with Dana Brown's dad, Mr. Endless Summer, Bruce Brown and Greg Noll watching with their commentary! It is so cool I can hardly stand it! Lots of great footage and remarks about all those guys, Dora, Pat Curren, Mike Stang, Buzzy Trent, etc. and footage of them surfing now classic breaks, many of them never before surfed! Anyway, it's no longer available on video but I did find a download-able version from surfline.com which I would totally recommend!

[–] nandomaron 13 years ago

Hey bro, i've seen only parts of Dana Brown's film, is truly a jewel for classic surf fans, i have great appreciattion for Noll,Dora,Stang and all
i will try to download it.
as for Beach Party, try to find Dora in it, he appears a lot on it and is kinda cool to search him in all the scenes were the beach crew is on scene.