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Craig McDonald
Greg Bell
Darryn Hooks
Ryan Wilson
Ty Lynch
Laurie Walker
Bruce Manning
Phil Miller

Nationals 2005

Craig McDonald

My good friend and stylemaster Craig. ROB Champion of the World. Some photos from long ago.

This sequence featured in the October 1982 Tracks magazine

Craig used to make boards for a living, counting Novakov and Farrer (and me) amongst his regular customers.

A rare kneelo shot in a mainstream NZ Surf mag
Thanks to New Zealand Surfing Nov/Dec 98
Magazine Caption:- Kneeboarder Greg Bell, earns and deserves the utmost respect. After all, this is the third barrell he has pulled into on the same line of wrapping swell.

Easter 2001 at Opunake

Darryn Hooks

Darryn is a young hotshot from Gisborne, relatively new on the kneelo scene but doing well in the contests

Easter 2001 at Opunake

Ryan Wilson

Ryan - from an interview in the local paper

Ty Lynch

Ty at Maori Bay - West of Auckland

Laurie Walker

This is the man who got me started into Kneeboarding 27 years ago. He was a Fireman and the sander at Weaver Surfboards in Glen Eden where he made his own 4'6" twin fins with scooped out decks and handles. They looked kind of weird but he took the latest drops, got the deepest tubes and did the most vertical moves at the beach.

Photo by Phil Miller

Bruce Manning

Bruce in Rarotonga 1988 - just off the airport. A great session with legend Gray Gardener till he got washed up a sea-urchin infested reef - ouch!

Phil Miller

At G-Land August '06